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The editor of the very first issue of Fortune Magazine in 1926 wrote: "As a symbol of great possession, the privately owned island may yet supplant even the steamship."
The Skeams are troubling places: Skeam West has a modern storm-proofed house, sheltered jetty and a fuckoff-this-is-private-property air to it. East Skeam is delightful, with white sand beaches, trees and a couple of ruined cottages.
The last time I landed on West Skeam more development had taken place - what looked like preparations for a short landing-strip: old stone walls removed,fields bulldozed flat, - and enough oil reserve tanks to last a nuclear winter... There was a rumour that millionaire Lateral Thinker Edward de Bono had bought it; and indeed it became one of his Centres for New Thinking, from '96 - '01, when it went on sale again for £1 million. New owner: a mystery to me and Google.

A great guide to the islands of Ireland: www.oileain.org/oileain

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