OYSTER-ISLAND, an island, in the parish of KILLASPICBROWN,
barony of UPPER-CARBERY, county of SLIGO,
and province of CONNAUGHT, 5 miles (N. N. W.) from
Sligo: the population is returned with the parish. It
is situated in the Pool of Sligo, and is remarkable for
the purity of its herbage, and for restoring diseased
cattle. Its ancient name was Inishroras, and it is enumerated
among the lands granted by Chas. II. to
the Earl of Strafford and Thomas Radcliff, Esq., in
1666.