Great Island

Great Island is an island in Cork Harbor, on the mouth of the River Lee in Ireland. The biggest metropolis at the island is Cobh, and the island's financial and social history has historically been connected to the naval, deliver-building, and transport activities in the city's environs. Located near Cork metropolis, as of the 21st century, a key financial driving force is tourism which includes the cruise tourism attracted by way of the Port of Cork birthing centers on the island.

The historic name of the island changed into Oilean Ard na Neimheadh, the High island of Neimheadh. Neimheadh become, in step with the eleventh century Lebor Gabala Erenn, the chief of a group who invaded the place in prehistoric instances. Archaeological evidence of prehistoric and early medieval settlement on Great Island is recorded at the Record of Monuments and Places of the National Monuments Service. This includes records of ringfort, fulacht fiadh, holy nicely and bee bole structures.