David,

It’s probably highly unlikely you will be allowed to do so unless you are with a group and have special permission from local government. This is mostly because if a storm were to move in while you were out on the island, you would be stranded with no shelter, and tents provide insufficient shelter from the nasty winds that often accompany those storms. I know this because I have friends on the Dingle Peninsula in Kerry who run boats that take tourists out to the Great Blasket Island, which, like Inishark, was abondoned in the mid-20th Century and is now just a bunch of ruins that tourists can take a day trip to and walk around. If they were to allow somebody to stay on the island overnight without special permission from local government and those people got caught in a nasty storm, they could end up in serious legal trouble. I would assume the same rules would apply to Inishark.

Noted and corrected. Thank you.

Please refrain from calling anything Irish, ‘british’, including our islands. We Irish NEVER call the Celtic Islands by the insulting name that you refer to them. We won independence for a reason, to be recognised as the separate people of who we are. The term ‘the ‘british’ isles’ was a false term given to the islands by british imperialists who wanted to strengthen their illegal claim to Ireland. Thank you.

David – Not sure, but you could check with the Inishbofin tourism board. Camping there would be an incredible experience.

@Cheryl – I hadn’t heard of it until I visited nearby Inishbofin, definitely a unique visit. People who live on the nearby island of Inishbofin tend the sheep and check on them.