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The village, An Blascaod Mór

An Blascaod Mór, or Great Blasket, was the last of the Blasket Islands to be inhabited. It was abandoned and its inhabitants resettled a few miles away on the mainland in 1953, due to the increasing inability of the mostly elderly population of twenty or so to sustain itself. The population of the Blasket Islands, though never large, spawned a proportionally surprising number of Irish-language writers, most famously Tomás Ó Criomhthain. The ghost village is quite busy in the summer with day trippers and campers (tents are visible in the above image erected inside the ruined houses) and a small shop or two cater for their needs in regard of tea and the obligatory local handicrafts.