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Inishbeg or Inish beg (Gaeilge: Inis Beag, meaning "small island") is a name given to several mostly uninhabited islands in Ireland.

List of islands named Inishbeg

Inishbeg, County Cork

Inisheg is a former island now connected to the mainland by a bridge joining the R595 road. It is part of Carbery's Hundred Isles

Demographics

Historical population
Year Pop. ±%
1841 335 —    
1851 88 −73.7%
1861 57 −35.2%
1871 44 −22.8%
1881 57 +29.5%
1891 50 −12.3%
1901 17 −66.0%
1911 14 −17.6%
Year Pop. ±%
1926 16 +14.3%
1936 5 −68.8%
1946 20 +300.0%
1951 24 +20.0%
1956 16 −33.3%
1961 17 +6.2%
1966 21 +23.5%
1971 10 −52.4%
Year Pop. ±%
1979 24 +140.0%
1981 18 −25.0%
1986 19 +5.6%
1991 17 −10.5%
1996 19 +11.8%
2002 13 −31.6%
2006 8 −38.5%
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