Cruit Island

Cruit Island An Chruit
Populated place
South side of the island
Cruit Island Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 55°01′53″N 8°25′03″W
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

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1841 258 —     1851 252 −2.3% 1861 260 +3.2% 1871 273 +5.0% 1881 286 +4.8% 1891 252 −11.9% 1901 245 −2.8% 1911 255 +4.1% 1926 237 −7.1%	Year Pop. ±% 1936 279 +17.7% 1946 172 −38.4% 1951 151 −12.2% 1956 135 −10.6% 1961 107 −20.7% 1966 86 −19.6% 1971 69 −19.8% 1979 84 +21.7% 1981 83 −1.2%	Year Pop. ±% 1986 89 +7.2% 1991 77 −13.5% 1996 70 −9.1% 2002 61 −12.9% 2006 53 −13.1% 2011 85 +60.4% 2016 60 −29.4% 2022 92 +53.3%
Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016.

References

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

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