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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rory Carroll on Inis Rath

How Ireland’s Hare Krishna Island went from dream to folly to recovery

The Hare Krishna ferry
The Hare Krishna ferry departs Inis Rath on Lough Erne. The island is expecting an influx of visitors. Photograph: Paul McErlane/The Guardian

In the early 1980s Ireland’s tiny Hare Krishna community made a bold decision: it bought an island.

Inis Rath, a nine-hectare (22-acre) wooded island on Lough Erne, just inside Northern Ireland, was available for £125,000.

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