We thought the place would be flooded with drugs, but not a sign of them – flooded with letters is all. In town we just all thought the man must be making a lot of money out of it all, but then thought, fair game to him when he made it through that first winter. It didn't suit too many of the rich, pampered kids. "You saw them waiting to go out, and some of then were back pretty quick, too. But as 30 hippies with their Carnaby Street costumes and teepees arrived, local residents were horrified, remembers Sam Kelly, 63, a retired farmer from nearby Westport. Rawle had great plans for livestock and lobster pots and vegetables. He was a New Ager, interested in self-suffiency, when he was summoned to the Beatle headquarters in 1970 and offered the use of Dorninish by Lennon to try to build his utopia. Rawle, the man the newspapers liked to call the "King of the Hippies", was the founder of the Digger Action Movement. But at the height of Beatlemania Lennon wasn't ready to settle into his island retirement and so he offered it out, rent-free, to Sid Rawle. "He was besotted with the place by all accounts," said Crowley. He shipped in a multicoloured caravan and took both his wives there. He bought Dorninish – twin green mounds linked by a natural causeway, lying just 15 minutes from the west coast of Ireland – in 1967 and got planning permission, although he never got as far as building. And indeed it is hard not to look at an island without the plans starting to kick in. "You'll not be wanting to get off," he assures visitors on the boat out.
Some are owned by farmers, others by foreigners as a holiday home, one by the Maharishi Mahesh's followers.Įstate agent Andrew Crowley is selling two islands. Even as the property slump continues in the stagnant Irish economy, land is holding value, and so those who need to sell are doing so.Ĭlew Bay is island soup there are some 365 "drowned" drumlins, or elongated hills, out here if anyone's counting. It is one of a slew of islands on the market off the west coast of Ireland.
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