In it was granted to the Archbishop of Cashel by the Norman government. In the early 's it was used for wine and tobacco smuggling as names like Poulaneena of the wine and Port Tobacco Cove evidence.
During that time the Island was owned by Sir Edward O'Brien of Drumoland who was a well-known and eager customer of wine smugglers. In the late 's a telegraph watchtower and keep were built there by the coastguard to keep vigil for a French invasion that never happened! Since then Mutton Island has had a quiet pastoral history as a self-sufficient continually inhabited island, supporting up to twelve families, the last of whom left in More properties like this.
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