Inis Mac Neasáin - Ireland's Eye, Dublin, Ireland Oil

The traditional name was Inis Mac Neasáin, island of the sons of Neasán. Neasán was a local prince whose three sons founded a church on the island in the 7th century. The monastic settlement reputedly produced an illuminated manuscript of the four gospels, the Garland of Howth, a fragment of which is in Trinity College Library. In the late 9th century the Vikings attacked the island and returned and destroyed the early church buildings. The monastic settlement moved to the mainland in the 13th century.
The island came into the possession of the Bishop of Dublin, Laurence O’Toole, in the 12th century, before becoming part of the Howth estate owned by St. Lawrence family.