Cruit Island

Island in County Donegal, Ireland

Populated place in Ulster, Ireland

Cruit Island An Chruit
Populated place
South side of the island
55°01′53″N 8°25′03″W / 55.031268°N 8.417521°W / 55.031268; -8.417521
Country	Ireland
Province	Ulster
County	County Donegal
Barony	Boylagh
District	The Rosses
Population (2022)^[1]	92
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid Reference	B847228

Cruit Island (Irish: An Chruit^[2] or Oileán na Cruite) is a small inhabited island in the Rosses district in the west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. It is linked to the mainland by a bridge.

Culture

Cruit Island has a strong musical heritage. Seán McBride (Irish: Seán Mac Giolla Bhride), a native of Cruit who spent most of his life both living in and working as a teacher in St. Johnston in East Donegal, wrote the Irish ballad The Homes of Donegal in 1955.^[3]^{[failed verification]}^[4] The song Thíos Cois na Trá Domh originates from the island and remains a popular song in the Donegal Gaeltacht to this day.^{[citation needed]}

Demographics

Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

References

^ Population of Inhabited Islands Off the Coast (Report). Central Statistics Office. 2023. Retrieved 29 June 2023.
^ "An Chruit / Cruit Island". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
^ "Recent travel videos from around the web". tripatlas.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2012. Retrieved 11 April 2009.
^ St Johnston and Carrigans Donegal: 'Tributes to retiring St. Johnston teacher' (Derry People - Donegal News, 23 January 1973). https://www.stjohnstonandcarrigans.com/mcbride.html