Inishvickillane
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Name = Inishvickillane
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Elevation = 135 m (443 ft)
Location = County Kerry, Ireland
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Pronunciation =Inishvickillane, also spelled Inishvickillaun or Inishvickillaune, ("Inis Mhic Uileáin" in Irish) is one of the Blasket Islands, County Kerry, Ireland. Referred to by Blasket islanders as "The Inis", [J. & R. Stagles, "The Blasket Islands: Next Parish America". O'Brien Press, Dublin, 1980] Inishvickillane was intermittently inhabited during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, by one or more families. There are extensive ruins of ancient stone buildings on the island, and a house was built in the 1970s by the late former Taoiseach Charles Haughey, who owned the island and used it as a holiday home.
Inishvickillane holds important seabird colonies, being especially notable for Northern Fulmar, European Storm-petrel and Atlantic Puffin. A herd of Red Deer was introduced to the island by Haughey.
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