It is mentioned that the Irish state have given the British government permission to use the island's coast as a dumping ground for nuclear waste.

Location manager Joe Mardis was at a pub in the village of Kilfenora when he realised that the exposed karst landscapes of northern County Clare, such as the Burren, could easily be portrayed as an island.

Mardis looked at a number of older houses in Clare, photographed them and brought them for writers Graham Linehan and Arthur Mathews.

In terms of shops and establishments, the island features a caravan park, a picnic area, a cinema, an internet café, an isolation tank, a post office, a greyhound racing track, a very small golf course and a pub.

The parochial house is a Victorian style period property,[1] and the main location for the series, situated in isolation on Craggy Island.