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Dinish Island

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It was owned in the 1950s and 1960s by Dr Alfred Thompson Schofield, surgeon and author of "Scientific Diets for African Children" (1936) and a prominent missionary for the Church Missionary Society (Uganda).
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The island has had a permanent population in recent history with a population of nine families in 1911.
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and is part of a group of islands collectively known as
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Native name
Dinish Island is located in island of Ireland
Atlantic Ocean
53°15′43″N 9°45′14″W / 53.262°N 9.754°W / 53.262; -9.754
Ireland
Province
Connacht
County
Galway
Irish
Connemara
County Galway
Ireland
Lettermullen
Ceantar na nOileán
John Millington Synge
"CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year"


Ordnance Survey Ireland
"South Connemara Islands"
"National Archives: Census of Ireland 1911"
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