or the STONEY ISLAND, an island in Lough Ree, in the river Shannon, between the counties of Westmeath and Roscommon, at which place a monastery was founded by St Dermond, about the beginning of the 6th century.

INNISPAIL (derived from Inis Bheal, that is, "the island of Bheal"), one of the ancient names of Ireland, so denominated from Bheal, the principal object of adoration among the ancient inhabitants of the British isles. Innispail has been erroneously translated the Island of Destiny, as Bheal was sometimes taken for Fate or Providence.