Inishloe

{{Short description|Island in County Clare, Ireland}}

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| native_name = Inis Lua

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| location = River Fergus

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| area_km2 = 0.52

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| country = Ireland

| country_admin_divisions_title = Province

| country_admin_divisions = Munster

| country_admin_divisions_title_1 = County

| country_admin_divisions_1 = Clare

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Inishloe or Low Island (Gaeilge: Inis Lua{{cite web | url=https://www.logainm.ie/en/6969 | publisher=Logainm | title=Inis Lua | access-date=10 August 2020 }}) is an uninhabited island in the River Fergus and townland in the Kildysart parish of County Clare, Ireland.

Geography

The island's surface area is 52.68 hectares (130 acres).[http://www.townlands.ie/clare/inishloe/ Townlands.ie Inishloe]

Demographics

It has been uninhabited since 1976[http://www.irishtimes.com/news/jobs-for-women-proposed-to-stop-population-decline-1.796535 Jobs for women proposed] however the 1901 census showed 43 inhabitants[http://www.clarelibrary.ie/eolas/coclare/genealogy/1901census/killadysert_ded_inishloe_island68_28.htm 1901 Census of Clare] which reduced to 32 in 1911.[http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie/search/results.jsp?searchMoreVisible=false&census_year=1911&surname=&firstname=&county19011911=Clare&county1821=&county1831=&county1841=&county1851=&barony=&parish=&ward=&townland=Inishloe&houseNumber=&familyId=&ded=&age=&sex=&search=Search&ageInMonths=&relationToHead=&religion=&education=&occupation=&marriageStatus=&yearsMarried=&birthplace=&nativeCountry=&language=&deafdumb=&causeOfDeath=&yearOfDeath=&familiesNumber=&malesNumber=&femalesNumber=&maleServNumber=&femaleServNumber=&estChurchNumber=&romanCatNumber=&presbNumber=&protNumber=&marriageYears=&childrenBorn=&childrenLiving= CSO 1911 Census]

{{Historical populations

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|footnote= Source: {{cite web |url= http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/Define.asp?Maintable=CNA17&Planguage=0 |title= CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year |author= Central Statistics Office |website= CSO.ie |access-date=12 October 2016}}

|1841|114

|1851|93

|1861|96

|1871|91

|1881|55

|1891|43

|1901|43

|1911|32

|1926|28

|1936|23

|1946|27

|1951|14

|1956|10

|1961|9

|1966|7

|1971|3

|1979|0

|1981|0

|1986|0

|1991|0

|1996|0

|2002|0

|2006|0

|2011 |0

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The table reports data taken from Discover the Islands of Ireland (Alex Ritsema, Collins Press, 1999) and the Census of Ireland.

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