Inishbeg
# Inishbeg

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

## List of islands named Inishbeg

* Inishbeg, County Donegal
* Inishbeg, County Cork
* Inishbeg, County Sligo
* Inis Beag, a pseudonymous island near the Aran Islands described by US cultural anthropologist John Cowan Messenger in several academic texts

## 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

| 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% |
| 1926 | 16 | +14.3% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 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% |
| 1979 | 24 | +140.0% |
| 1981 | 18 | −25.0% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1986 | 19 | +5.6% |
| 1991 | 17 | −10.5% |
| 1996 | 19 | +11.8% |
| 2002 | 13 | −31.6% |
| 2006 | 8 | −38.5% |
| 2011 | 25 | +212.5% |
| 2016 | 34 | +36.0% |
| 2022 | 23 | −32.4% |

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

