The ruins of a Martello Tower and an 8th century church are the only signs of previous habitation. In Celtic times the island was called Eria's Island. Eria was a woman's name and this became confused with Erin, the Irish name for Ireland.

The Vikings substituted the word Island with Ey, their Norse equivalent, and so it became known as Erin's Ey and ultimately Ireland's Eye. Its most spectacular feature is the huge freestanding rock called the Stack. It simply seethes with the fluttering of the thousands of guillemots, terns, gannets, razorbills and gulls. Around its waters and outcrops cormorants, puffins and grey seals are in abundance

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