SCATTERY ISLAND

SCATTERY ISLAND
   in the Shannon estuary, 3 m. SW. of Kilrush; an early Christian place of pilgrimage, with ruins and a "round tower"; is fortified and marked by a lighthouse.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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