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Dorinish. ONCE owned by former Beatle, the late John Lennon, Dorinish Island is but one of the maze of islands that clutter inner Clew Bay. Nineteen acres in size and originally owned by the Westport Harbour Board, the island was used as a piloting station for ships navigating cargo into Westport quay.
Strapped for cash, the board advertised the sale of Dorinish back in 1967: ‘Island off Ireland for sale’. Lennon saw the advertisement and sent Alistair Taylor from Apple over to the auction. He bought it for £1,700.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono sailed to the island later that year and reputedly stayed there in a specially-commissioned multi-coloured gypsy caravan. The story goes that the couple’s sojourn coincided with the nesting season and that Yoko Ono, who was sporting a beehive bun, was attacked by seagulls gathering materials for their nests.
After John’s untimely and tragic death, Yoko Ono sold the island in 1984 and donated the proceeds to an Irish orphanage. In the interim, with Lennon’s permission, it had been used as a hippy colony for a while from 1969.
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