Spike Island

Spike Island is an island of 103 acres in Cork Harbour, Ireland. Originally the site of a monastic settlement, the island is ruled with the aid of an 18th-century megastar castle named Fort Mitchel. The island's strategic place inside the harbour meant it was used at times for defence and as a prison. Since the early 21 century the island has been advanced as a history vacationer appeal with €5.5 million investment in exhibition and traveler spaces and accompanying tourism advertising and marketing.

There were in excess of 10,000 traffic to the island for the duration of the month of August 2016. Spike Island changed into named top European tourist attraction at the 2017 World Travel Awards. The fundamental proof for a monastic basis on Spike Island comes from Archdall's Moanasticon Hibernicum, which states that Saint Mochuada based a monastery there within the seventh century. While this can be accurate, any other passage from the Life of St Mochuada implies that Mochuada was related to a place known as Rahen.