Talk:Inisheer

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In the ethnographic book by Dr. John C Messenger "Inis Beag", 1969 Waveland Press, it is mentioned that Gaelicly speaking, Inis Thiar meant Western Isle, and that Inis Beag meant Little Isle. Furthermore, the map in that ethnographic book shows that what is labeled as Inis Thiar is actually Inis Beag. I am attempting to find more information online to corraborate this.

If you look at the sites that Messenger describes in his ethnography - the castle, the sinking church and the shipwreck, you can see that Inis Beag is actually Inis Thiar/Inis Oirr/Inissheer. I was confused originally because he uses the name of Inis Thiar for the island which is nearest to Inis Beag. Siobhanmurphy (talk) 05:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I elaborated on this a bit on the talk page of Inis Beag. Lokpest (talk) 22:17, 17 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Is there a policy for only using english versions of placenames on wikipedia? If not I think that it is more correct that the title of this page be called inis oirr (the irish spelling) with a redirection from inisheer (the english spelling). This way the actual title of the island is used and those not from the country will be redirected there for using the english version. I will change this in a week, if no one replies to this. Thanks Paul5121 (talk) 19:10, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, please read

gr 06:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Ok cool, can you prove that it's the most commonly used name? (http://www.aranislands.ie/Inis_oirr_island.html) Or are you allowed to just assume so, because I would have always assumed that Inis Oirr was the more commonly used one (from Clare by the way). Not trying to be cheeky or anything! Thanks for the speedy reply, I appreciate it Paul5121 (talk) 10:06, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well, let's see. An ordinary Google search gets 83,100 hits for "Inisheer" versus 26,100 for "Inis Oírr". At Google Books (which limits the search to published books), it's 629 for "Inisheer" versus 17 for "Inis Oírr". In both cases, of course, the "Inis Oírr" count includes works written in Irish, so the number of hits in English is even lower. Also, at

gr 18:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply

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Sorry about this delayed reply. Anyway, I have this nagging feeling you've won:P nice to have met you. End Paul5121 (talk) 13:45, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Can I add this link http://www.360eire.com/360eire/Connacht/Gaillimh/oileainarann/inisoirr/INISOIRR.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dialinn (talk • contribs) 15:11, 22 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The data on the population in the introduction does not match the data in the box.

ICE77 (talk) 03:55, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

You're right, I fixed the figure.--Pampuco (talk) 17:31, 17 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Pampuco, thanks for the correction.

ICE77 (talk) 22:00, 29 May 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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I noticed that under the

Funnily enough, Inishmore uses "grikes" in both places, while Inishmaan uses "grykes" in both places (the text is almost verbatim in all three articles for this section). Whether or not it should be consistent across the articles, as the islands all make up the Arans, is a different matter.

AndyRatchick (talk) 00:18, 18 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]