GUEST asks:

>>jenny the T Is that the Inishfre of the poem? First heard it at primary school and loved it instantly. "And live alone in the bee-loud glade".Bliss <<

I can't honestly say, as I have the impression that the poem isn't meant to indicate a real place. I remember, vaguely, that "Inishfree," as with many other Irish place-names is an anglicization of a more ancient name in the Irish: "Inis Fraoigh," or "Island of the Meadow."

The only real "Inishfree" that I know of is on Lough Gill, county Sligo. This may or may not be the Isle of the poem.

While reading in an attempt to find all these answers, I find that The Quiet Man, ostensibly set it Inishfree, was actually filmed in the village of Cong, county Mayo. And here I've always wanted to visit Inishfree and see if it looks like the movie version. Guess not.

Jenny