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Inishbeg or Inish beg (Gaeilge: Inis Beag, 'small island')[1] is a name given to several mostly uninhabited islands in Ireland.

List of islands named Inishbeg

• Inishbeg, County Donegal[2]
• Inishbeg, County Cork[3]
• Inishbeg, County Sligo[4]
• Inis Beag, a pseudonymous island near the Aran Islands described by US cultural anthropologist John Cowan Messenger in several academic texts

Inishbeg, County Cork

Inisheg is a former island now connected to the mainland by a bridge joining the R595 road. It is part of Carbery's Hundred Isles

Demographics

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1841 335 —     1851 88 −73.7% 1861 57 −35.2% 1871 44 −22.8% 1881 57 +29.5% 1891 50 −12.3% 1901 17 −66.0% 1911 14 −17.6%	Year Pop. ±% 1926 16 +14.3% 1936 5 −68.8% 1946 20 +300.0% 1951 24 +20.0% 1956 16 −33.3% 1961 17 +6.2% 1966 21 +23.5% 1971 10 −52.4%	Year Pop. ±% 1979 24 +140.0% 1981 18 −25.0% 1986 19 +5.6% 1991 17 −10.5% 1996 19 +11.8% 2002 13 −31.6% 2006 8 −38.5%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

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