Talk:Inisheer

Etymology
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)


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

Proposed title change
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)
 * Yes, please read Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles). The custom is to use the name most commonly used in English, even when this is not the official name. The most commonly used name for the island in English is Inisheer, not Inis Oírr. —Angr 06:02, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 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)
 * 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 WP:MOS-IR, it says "Where the English and Irish names are the same or very nearly the same, but the English and Irish spellings differ, use the English spelling", and gives as an example Inishmore not Inis Mór. I think what holds for Inishmore safely hold for Inisheer (and Inishmaan too). —Angr 18:47, 17 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 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)

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)

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

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


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

Pampuco, thanks for the correction.

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

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Grikes or Grykes
I noticed that under the Geology and geography section of the article, there is one instance of this feature spelled as "grikes" and in a later paragraph, it is spelled as "grykes". Just for consistency's sake, shouldn't we stick to one spelling? According to a quick Google web search, "grykes" is slightly more common (60.2K results vs 58K for "grikes") while Google Books more definitively favours "grikes" (7,360 vs 3,390 for "grykes"). Wikipedia has a disambiguation page for Grike while Gryke simply redirects to Limestone pavement. I have no preference either way, but I feel like it will look better if we just pick one spelling and run with it.

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)