Inishmurray is Sligo's most renowned Atlantic Island. This island was home to a small but happy community which finally left in 1948. The desertion of the island was in the modern trend of island to mainland, mainland to town, town to city. Access to the island is nowadays, usually, from either Mullaghmore or Aughris Pier. This journey is about fourteen miles and takes about seventy minutes each way and is weather dependent.

One needs about six hours on this island to view the evidence of an early Monastic site which includes beehive cells, the well of St. Molaise and the legendary cursing stones. The island was used chiefly as Templeboys' burial ground. It was customary for four men to take the corpse in a boat to the island to bury it. This continued down the ages until a certain crossing, the boat overturned and all of its occupants were drowned. From that time on it ceased to be the burial ground of Templeboy.