On our day in Dalkey we caught a ride from Ken the Ferryman and he took us the brief distance to Dalkey Island. Dalkey Island is uninhabited now, but records indicate people living there more than 1,000 years ago. Dalkey Island at one point had a church on it. Today the ruins of that church, a military cannon station, and a radar structure still stand. Other than that it has goats, but we didn’t see any of them, and a lot of seagulls.

Three people sitting on a large rock in front of stone church ruins on a grassy island under a cloudy sky. Roofless stone church ruin on a grassy island with a cylindrical stone tower visible in the distance under a cloudy sky. Green grassy headland with stone church ruins near the rocky shoreline, calm sea and coastal town visible in the background. Seagull perched on the corner of ancient stone ruins overlooking a calm bay with hills in the distance under a cloudy sky. Ruins of a coastal stone cannon battery with overgrown circular gun emplacement tracks and sea visible in the background Round stone Martello tower on a rocky grass-covered headland with a coastal town visible across calm water under a cloudy sky. Person walking a grass path toward stone ruins of a roofless building on a rocky coastal island under a cloudy sky. Small red ferry boat docked at a stone pier as passengers board, with white houses on a wooded hillside across the water. Map showing a blue GPS track crossing Dalkey Sound from the mainland to Dalkey Island with red pins marking stops along the route.