title: Inishbeg
text: # Inishbeg
  
  Inishbeg or Inish beg (Gaeilge: Inis Beag, 'small island') is a name given to several mostly uninhabited islands in Ireland.
  
  ## List of islands named Inishbeg
  
  * Inishbeg, County Donegal
  * Inishbeg, County Cork
  * Inishbeg, County Sligo
  * Inis Beag, a pseudonymous island near the Aran Islands described by US cultural anthropologist John Cowan Messenger in several academic texts
  
  ## Inishbeg, County Cork
  
  Inisheg is a former island now connected to the mainland by a bridge joining the R595 road. It is part of Carbery's Hundred Isles
  
  ### Demographics
  
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | - | - | - |
  | 1841 | 335 | — |
  | 1851 | 88 | −73.7% |
  | 1861 | 57 | −35.2% |
  | 1871 | 44 | −22.8% |
  | 1881 | 57 | +29.5% |
  | 1891 | 50 | −12.3% |
  | 1901 | 17 | −66.0% |
  | 1911 | 14 | −17.6% |
  | 1926 | 16 | +14.3% |
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | 1936 | 5 | −68.8% |
  | 1946 | 20 | +300.0% |
  | 1951 | 24 | +20.0% |
  | 1956 | 16 | −33.3% |
  | 1961 | 17 | +6.2% |
  | 1966 | 21 | +23.5% |
  | 1971 | 10 | −52.4% |
  | 1979 | 24 | +140.0% |
  | 1981 | 18 | −25.0% |
  | Year | Pop. | ±% |
  | 1986 | 19 | +5.6% |
  | 1991 | 17 | −10.5% |
  | 1996 | 19 | +11.8% |
  | 2002 | 13 | −31.6% |
  | 2006 | 8 | −38.5% |
  | 2011 | 25 | +212.5% |
  | 2016 | 34 | +36.0% |
  | 2022 | 23 | −32.4% |
  
  Source: Central Statistics Office. "CNA17: Population by Off Shore Island, Sex and Year". CSO.ie. Retrieved 12 October 2016. :
  
  