CALVES-ISLANDS, islands, in the parish of KILCOE
and SKULL, barony of WEST-CARBERY, county of CORK,
and province of MUNSTER, 6 miles (S. W.) from Ballydehob;
containing 86 inhabitants. They are three in
number, and are situated at the entrance to Roaringwater
bay, off the harbour of Skull: the largest, called
the Middle Calf, contains 78 statute acres; the second
in size, called the East Calf, contains 75 acres; and
the third, called Leaerer, or the West Calf", 65 acres.
There are two families in West Calf, and six in Middle
Calf, which belong to the parish of Skull, and five
families in East Calf, which forms part of the parish of
Kilcoe. The islands are contiguous, lying in a line nearly
east and west, about midway between Cape Clear and
Long island, and about 5 Irish or 6¼ British miles from
the mainland. A school was established in 1835 on the
Middle island, in which all the children and adults of
these islands may receive gratuitous education; 18
children and 14 adults were in this school at the commencement
of 1836.