Wild Atlantic Way 6/8 Dingle: Tarbert → Ballyferriter

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Beggars and a running courier near Tarbert

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Coming through Tarbert in Kerry, there is a story from the road about what happened when a traveller's horses got into motion to leave the town. A crowd of beggars had surrounded the car. As it moved forward, the crowd divided in front, and those who were nimble of foot ran along by the side for some distance. One man ran off in front like a courier and kept it up for nearly two miles. When he saw that all the others had dropped off, he came to the side of the car and received a few pence as a reward for his perseverance. The same traveller's view from the road took in a village where the national process of house-building was under way. A house of some length had fallen in, not by any volcanic agency but simply by the effect of its own weight. The proprietor was repairing the damage, but being too poor or too indolent to rebuild the whole place, he cut away the broken wall to make it smooth and ran up a new wall where the old one still stood. He was abandoning half his old house and reducing his family, his pigs, his dogs, and his poultry to half their previous accommodation. The manner of building was characteristic. The father brought the mould in a wheelbarrow, the eldest son with a shovel fashioned the material into the shape of a wall, and a younger boy stood on top to stamp it into something like consistency. The traveller wrote that a pair of swallows would have expended more care and skill upon the construction of their nest.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ireland. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork, and the Kilkenny races, the round towers, the lakes of Killarney, the county of Wicklow ... and the Giant's causeway (1844), Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg), 1808-1878, Internet Archive irelanddublinsh00kohlgoog, Chapter 19 · source

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Poverty and house repair near Tarbert

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As you pass through Tarbert in Kerry, the road gives a glimpse of how the poor here cope when a house gives way. Kohl, travelling this road, saw a house that had fallen in, not from any earthquake but simply under its own weight. The owner set about repairing it, but he was too poor to rebuild the whole thing. Instead he cut away the broken part of the wall to make a clean edge, and ran up a new wall where the old one still stood. By this method he abandoned half his house, reducing his family, his pigs, his dogs, and his poultry to half their former room. The way they built the new wall was something to see. The father brought the mould to the spot in a wheelbarrow. The eldest son shaped the material into the form of a wall with a shovel. A younger boy stood on top stamping it into something like consistency. Kohl remarked that a pair of swallows would have expended more care and skill on their nest. He noted that all the people he met here spoke English, even though Kerry is counted among the counties where Irish has been best preserved. They told him only in very out-of-the-way places would he find people who understood no English. One Kerry farmer said to him, "Our English is a sort of home-English. We don't learn it correctly. But we have high-bred men among us, even among the farmers, and some of the shepherds among the mountains know as much Latin as so many priests."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Ireland. Dublin, the Shannon, Limerick, Cork, and the Kilkenny races, the round towers, the lakes of Killarney, the county of Wicklow ... and the Giant's causeway (1844), Kohl, J. G. (Johann Georg), 1808-1878, Internet Archive irelanddublinsh00kohlgoog, Chapter 19 · source

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Children's burial ground, Dooncaha

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Right here at Dooncaha in Kerry is a children's burial ground marked on old OS maps as Monakyle. According to Holly, the remains of deceased inmates of the workhouse in Farranawana were brought up the Pottery Road to be buried here during the famine years and for some time afterwards. It was known locally as St Monica's Church, and there were traces of a building and a graveyard up to a few years ago, but no surface trace of either can be seen today.

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Ritual site - holy well, Lislaughtin

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Right here at Lislaughtin in Kerry is the site of a holy well dedicated to St Laichtín, though no trace of the well itself remains today. It was a small dry-walled well, only 2 feet across, never marked on the Ordnance Survey maps but known locally by the saint's name. The well stood in the townland of Lislaughtin, in land belonging to Mrs Sullivan. The legend tells of a savage bull in the field that had killed many people. When St Laichtín and his followers passed by, the bull walked up to the saint and knelt down before him, and never killed anyone after. Laichtín was said to live in the 6th century, and God granted him a miraculous cure in his small finger. People came from all parts of Ireland to be cured. After his death the finger was preserved in the Abbey here, a Franciscan monastery now a ruin covered in ivy, but the relic was lost around the 14th century. No rounds are paid at the well, as it was never certain the saint truly visited it. One tradition says he came here on the 13th of May 758. His feast day falls on the 17th of March but is no longer honoured.

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballymacasy

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This is St Colman's Well, right beside the road here in Ballymacasy. It is marked on the 1840-41 and 1914 OS maps as St Colman's Well, or Tobar Colmáin. It is now closed up, and the water has been piped to Ballylongford. No devotions have taken place here in living memory. The well was visited on Midsummer's Eve, and the water was known to cure aches and pains. A woman washed clothes in the well and it dried up. Folklore collected from Ballylongford School recorded that there are two holy wells in the parish of Ballylongford. One of them is St Colman's Well, situated in the townland of Ballymackessy about a mile from the village of Ballylongford. Long ago, people visited this well on St John's Eve and brought home some of the water. If they got any diseases during the year they would bathe the diseased part in the water. The tradition says this well is not visited at all nowadays.

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Children's burial ground, Tullahennel North

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Right here in Tullahennel North is a children's burial ground, a roughly circular enclosure with a low, wide earthen bank around it. The inside measures about 41 metres across, the outside about 57 metres. The bank itself is roughly 12 metres wide at the base, rising less than a metre on either side. A ridge about 3 metres wide runs east to west through the middle and may be what's left of an old field bank. On the 1841-42 Ordnance Survey map a small bohareen, a lane, looped up around the burial ground from the south-west, but no trace of that lane remains today.

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Children's burial ground, Killomeerhoe

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There's a children's burial ground here at Killomeerhoe, marked on the old Ordnance Survey maps as a circular enclosure, now cut in half by a fieldbank. Most of it has been levelled over the years, and only a small semi-circular mound about 8 metres across remains on one side, with another small mound on the other. A good number of stones are still visible. The landowner, Mr Kissane, said a small stone-lined grave was once unearthed in the north part of the enclosure, but it held no remains and nothing of it can be seen today.

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Children's burial ground, Loughanes

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Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground at Loughanes in Kerry. On the 1841 map it was drawn as a circular area marked simply Burial Ground, lying south-east of the ruins of Lisselton church. By the 1896 map a road had cut into it from the north-east and a stream from the north-west, leaving it a small polygonal shape. The site was surveyed in 2010. The western tower or belfry of a late 18th century First Fruits Church of Ireland is all that survives of that building. The children's burial ground sits along the roadway, separated from the main graveyard by an active stream. A small bridge and trackway cross the stream and run along two sides of the pentagonal graveyard, leading to a farm at the south-west corner and a private house at the north-east. Within the graveyard, 38 unnamed headstones were recorded. Across the stream in the children's burial ground, 88 unnamed graves were mapped. Most are unhewn stones. A few are simple iron crosses where the engraving or name plate has disappeared.

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Ballydonohoe

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Right here at Ballydonohoe is a megalithic tomb marked as 'Giant's Grave' on old Ordnance Survey maps. It was levelled some years ago and now survives only as a low oval mound, about 12 metres across.

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Children's burial ground, Ballyconry

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Right here in Ballyconry is a children's burial ground, a killeen. It's an elongated mound, about 21.6 metres long, 4 to 7 metres wide, and 1.5 metres high. There's a disturbance at the centre on the south side that narrows the mound. It's marked on the Ordnance Survey map as a disused children's burial ground.

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Castle - tower house, Ballybunnion

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Right beside the road here at Ballybunnion in Kerry are the remains of a tower house built by the Fitzmaurices. It stands on the summit of a cliff, within the enclosure of a promontory fort, and served as the seat of the heir apparent of that family until the middle of the 16th century. Little is now standing except the east wall, which rises over 12 metres. The entrance was on that side, though it is impossible to tell what type of arch it had or how large it was. The wall has five square-headed window loops of varying size and a large rectangular window with a pointed arch on the top floor, now in ruinous condition. A spiral staircase lay in the south-east angle of the interior, but it is blocked up. There is evidence of a vault over the third floor. The castle was destroyed in Lord Kerry's raid in 1582, and the Bunnion family acquired possession of it. Due to their involvement in the Desmond wars their lands were confiscated in 1583. King James desired peace and granted Thomas Fitzmaurice a pardon in 1603, and his castles and lands in 1604. In 1612 he obtained a patent in confirmation of his castles and lands, including Ballybunnion. The Fitzmaurices retained their lands throughout the 1641, 1651 and 1690 rebellions and confiscations. By 1783 Richard Haro was in possession. In 1987 an underground passage tunnel some 30 metres long was unearthed, accessed by an opening in the south side of the cliff face. It extends towards the castle until it stops due to a cave-in, with another branch ending in a cul-de-sac. This man-made tunnel is constructed of stones in beehive fashion, and the chamber is over 2 metres high. The castle has been a national monument since 1923.

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Siege of Benmore castle near Loughrea relieved

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Close to Benmore, a castle once stood where a son of the late Earl of Clanrickard was besieged by his own brother, the declared earl. The Dalcassians had just returned home from a march across the Shannon when word came of the siege. They set out rapidly for the castle and compelled the besiegers to withdraw.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Clare and the Dalcassian clans of Tipperary, Limerick, and Galway ... with an ancient and a modern map (1893), White, P. (Patrick), Internet Archive historyofclareda00whit, Chapter 95 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Rathmorrel

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Right beside the road here at Rathmorrel in Kerry, there was once a castle. Very little is known about it, but it is believed the D'Cantillon family built it. In 1841, O'Donovan described a rectangular building with walls standing 20 feet high. The walls were taken away some time ago and used to build a track and shed just north of here. All that remains now is a mound of rubble, 25 metres north to south and 46 metres east to west.

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Ritual site - holy well, Feeans

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Right here at Feeans in Kerry is a holy well, marked on the 1842 and 1916 maps as Toberlury, the well of Lúrach, a saint's name. It's a small pool with a good spring and a stream running from it. Local tradition says a church and graveyard lie in a nearby field. Rounds were held at this well about 80 years ago, but not anymore.

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Ballyheigue Castle

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Somewhere around here stand the ruins of Ballyheigue Castle, a Tudor-gothic-revival-style mansion in County Kerry. It was home to the Crosbie family, who counted a Bishop of Ardfert and Aghadoe, High Sheriffs of Kerry, and members of the UK Parliament among them. It later served as a jail, and has been burned twice. Today it is part of a golf course.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Ballyheigue Castle · source

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Castle - unclassified, Ballyheige

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Right here at Ballyheige stood a castle of the Crosbie family. Their original house was a long, low thatched building facing onto an enclosed bawn, with a stone tower in the corner from an older castle built by the De Cantillons. Around 1758 a new house replaced the thatched building, and this was remodelled into a castellated mansion designed by Richard and William Vitruvius Morrison around 1809. It was burnt in 1921, and a wing was recently restored, now forming the centrepiece of a golf course.

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Unknown wreck, Ballyheigue Strand (1825)

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Just ahead on Ballyheigue Strand, right here, the shifting sands reveal the timbers of a wooden wreck at the lowest tides. The pottery, green glass bottles and barrel remains among the ballast stones suggest an 18th-century trader, and in the 1960s local historian Edward Roe recovered intact Westerwald jugs, a full Staffordshire tea set, and 3 perfectly preserved tricorne felt hats, now held in the Edward Roe Collection of Kerry County Museum. Roe believed this was the Wind Trader, lost here in 1746, but 8 other 18th- and 19th-century wrecks went down at or near Ballyheigue, so the identity is not certain. In 2014, after reports of interference with the protected site, the Underwater Archaeology Unit excavated what they could between tides, finding a small barrel still bearing a maker's mark, broken green glass bottles, and more ceramics including Frechen ware and Staffordshire cream ware, along with bird bones. Research on the recovered material continues, and may yet confirm which ship lies here.

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Burial ground, Kill (Clanmaurice By.)

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Right here is the old burial ground at Kill in Clanmaurice barony, in Kerry. It was marked on the 1841-42 OS map as an old graveyard, but it does not appear on the later edition. In 1987 a souterrain was discovered in this region, and Mary Cahill of the National Museum excavated it. The souterrain was sub-rectangular, built of small stones capped by large slabs. Inside was the fully extended skeleton of a woman, laid east to west, head facing west. A small spread of charcoal near her upper right side was radiocarbon dated to the 10th century.

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Casement, Bailey and Monteith land at Ardfert strand

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As you come through Ardfert, this is where three men came ashore from a German submarine in the early hours of Good Friday, 1916. Casement, Bailey and Monteith had been aboard the submarine heading for the south-west coast. The authorities already knew they were coming. Around 2 o'clock on the morning of April 21st, the three were put off in a collapsible boat to land on the sands here. The weather was very rough and the boat capsized in the surf. They managed to wade ashore. From the swamped boat they recovered three Mauser pistols, ammunition, a flash lamp, maps and a large green Irish flag, and they buried these articles on the strand. Monteith and Bailey went on to Tralee to meet the local leader of the Volunteers. Casement stayed near the landing place, in a rath known as MacKenna's Fort. The police in Tralee were watching for them. Monteith disappeared, stayed hidden through the rebellion, and afterwards escaped from Ireland. The book this comes from draws a parallel with 1798. Wolfe Tone, like Casement, negotiated with the enemies of Great Britain in time of war, approached the shores of Ireland in an enemy ship, hoping to help a rebellion. Tone, like Casement, was accompanied by two other rebel agents, and in his case, as in Casement's, one companion eluded.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the Irish Rebellion of 1916 (1916), Wells, Warre Bradley, 1892-, Internet Archive historyofirishre00welluoft, Chapter 70 · source

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Castle - unclassified, Ardfert

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Coming up here at Ardfert in Kerry, this is the site of Ardfert Castle. It once stood east of the cathedral, between the cathedral and the parish rooms. Lord Kerry built it in 1570, replacing an older castle his ancestors had raised in 1311, during the reign of King Edward II. The castle was besieged in 1580. Two years later Thomas Fitzmaurice, Lord of Kerry, twice besieged the English garrison holding it. On the second attempt the English were forced to withdraw from the town after heavy casualties. In 1600 the castle fell to Sir Charles Wilmot. The account in Pacata Hibernia, published in 1633, tells how the place held out for some nine days. The defenders burned with fireworks the boards and timber Sir Charles had placed against the wall to shelter his men as they undermined it. At last Sir Charles sent for a saker, a cannon, from an English ship. The master, one Hill, lent it to him. His purpose was only to break open the door, for the walls were too strong for so small a piece. "The rebels at the sight of the saker yielded; Sir Charles hanged the constable; the rest of the ward, which was but eight with the women and children were spared." Lord Kerry, Patrick Fitzmaurice, rebuilt the castle in 1637. But after siding with the Puritans in the Cromwellian war, he had to quit the castle on 13 February 1642 and fled to England. On the direction of the Council of the Confederates in Kerry, Captain Patrick Lawlor burnt it to the ground. No trace of the structure can be seen today.

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Casement and Bailey arrested at rath near Ardfert

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As you come through Ardfert in Kerry, this is the town near where Casement and Bailey were arrested in 1916. Bailey had returned from Tralee to a rath nearby, and the authorities took them both. On Casement they found a code of contemplated messages for the rebellion, things like "Send more explosives," "How many rifles will you send us?" and "Cannons with plenty of ammunition are needed." After examination here, they were taken secretly to Dublin, then forwarded to London and lodged in the Tower to await trial for high treason. On June 29th Casement was found guilty and sentenced to death, after an impassioned speech from the dock. Bailey was discharged, as the Crown accepted he had joined the Irish Brigade only to escape from Germany. Casement's conviction was upheld on appeal, and despite petitions for reprieve, he was hanged in Pentonville on August 3rd.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A history of the Irish Rebellion of 1916 (1916), Wells, Warre Bradley, 1892-, Internet Archive historyofirishre00welluoft, Chapter 71 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballymakegoge

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Right beside the road here is the site of a holy well called Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh, the Well of the King of Sunday, in the townland of Ballymakegoge. The well disappeared when the Tralee-Fenit railway line was built through it, but the spring still breaks out beside the embankment. People came for its cure for headaches. By 1998 the site was levelled, in rough pasture on the south side of the disused railway line. The railway itself built a mass concrete cover over the spring overflow, which is what you would see today. The well was known locally as Sunday's Well, and it originally sat right under the railway line.

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Castle - unclassified, Balloonagh

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Right here at Balloonagh in Kerry are the remains of a castle known as Castle Mac Ellistrum. In 1641 it was held by Christopher Walsh. Its location is marked on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey six-inch map. There is little else on the record to tell you what stood here.

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Beheading of the Earl of Desmond near Tralee

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Somewhere close to Tralee, in 1583, the Earl of Desmond met his end. Driven by desperate need, he had taken cattle belonging to a poor woman, and was pursued by a small group of musketeers and kerns in English pay. They came upon him around midnight in a lonely mountainous glen, four miles east of Tralee, seated by the fire of a ruinous hovel. His adherents fled, leaving only the old man. A soldier named Daniel Kelly struck him with his sword, nearly severing his arm. The Earl cried out, "Spare me, spare me, I am the Earl of Desmond," but Kelly struck off his head. The head was sent to the Earl of Ormond, who had it "pickled in a pipkin" and shipped to England, where it was spiked on London Bridge. His body lay concealed for eight weeks before being buried obscurely in the chapel of Killanamana in Kerry. Kelly was rewarded by Elizabeth with a yearly pension of 20 pounds, but was eventually hanged at Tyburn.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Researches in the South of Ireland (1824), T. Crofton Croker, Project Gutenberg #researchesinsout00crokuoft, Chapter 13 · source

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Birchfield, seat of Cornelius O'Brien

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Somewhere about Birchfield stood a fine old mansion, set in a grove of trees, midway to Liscannor. It was the seat of the late Cornelius O'Brien, for many years Member of Parliament for County Clare. The public are indebted to him for the tower on the summit of the cliffs, which bears his name. It was his money and enterprise which reclaimed the land surrounding the cliffs, and for a long distance inland. By the time of writing, the mansion was fast going to decay, with no surviving family members to inherit the improved property.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Holiday haunts on the west coast of Clare, Ireland (1891), Harris, H. B, Internet Archive holidayhauntsonw00harr, Chapter 1 · source

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Siege of Tralee

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Somewhere around here, the siege of Tralee took place between 1 and 9 November 1920, in Tralee, County Kerry.

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Castle - unclassified, Tralee

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Here in Tralee, this was the site of the Earl of Desmond's castle in the medieval period. Nothing is known of its history before the mid-16th century. It stood at the north end of Denny Street and was finally demolished in 1826.

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hospital/infirmary, Tralee

What it said · 64 of 64 words

Right here is a former infirmary, built about 1800. It was a detached two-storey building with a three-bay central breakfront and a curved stairwell projection at the rear. Today it houses retail outlets. Its hipped slate roof, carved stone eaves, and panelled door with columns and a fanlight survive from the original construction. The boundary wall has a limestone gate pier with cast-iron railings.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Inventory of Architectural Heritage (CC-BY 4.0), NIAH 21003062 · source

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Children's burial ground, Annagh (Trughanacmy By., Kiltallagh Ed)

What it said · 73 of 73 words

Right here at Annagh is a children's burial ground, though nothing is visible above ground today. The 1841 Ordnance Survey map marked a burial ground inside a levelled cashel called Tonakilla Fort, with graves to the south and a cluster of stones called Gallauns that may be a megalithic structure. O'Donovan made no mention of the burial ground, and later accounts disagree on whether the graves lay inside the fort or outside it.

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Children's burial ground, Doire Mhór Thiar

What it said · 108 of 108 words

Right here is a children's burial ground, a long narrow enclosure near the sea at the base of Derrymore island, a low spit that reaches north into Tralee Bay. A low bank runs along its south side, curving to almost meet the road boundary fence at either end. It was once described as a mound of small stones, but not much stone is visible now. A field wall cuts the ground into two unequal parts, and the east end has been truncated in modern times; old maps show it once stretched further east than it does today. Children were still being buried here in the early 19th century.

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Children's burial ground, Killelton (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 84 of 84 words

Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground at Killelton. It sits on the lower northern slopes of Gearhane mountain, overlooking Tralee Bay, within a rectangular enclosure about 25 metres across. Inside are the remains of a small oratory and two rectangular buildings. Children were still being buried in this graveyard in the 19th century, and two low upright stones in the north-west part of the interior may be their gravemarkers. The drystone walls stand no more than point eight metres high.

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Children's burial ground, Killelton (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 104 of 104 words

Right beside the road here is a children's burial ground at Killelton, on a gentle north-facing slope looking toward Tralee Bay. It is a large flat-topped mound of stones, roughly 75 metres long and 30 metres wide, about 1.5 metres high. A stone standing near the centre, 1.25 metres high, bears a deeply carved Latin cross on its east face. A circular drystone hut built into the north-west edge of the mound has an interior 3.6 metres across, and two further hut sites, a souterrain and a number of quern stones have also been recorded here. Dense vegetation covers much of the site now.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE037-024001- · source

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Castle - unclassified, Camp (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 61 of 61 words

Right here is the site of Camp Castle, possibly built by a branch of the FitzGeralds. Today only a low mound and some random mortared masonry remain, with grass-grown wall foundations nearby that may have been ancillary buildings. The site has changed little since the 19th century, and it was built in a commanding position overlooking Tralee Bay to the north.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE037-032---- · source

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Burial, Caher (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 44 of 44 words

There's a burial site right here at Caher in Kerry, though nothing shows above ground now. The maps once marked a circular cashel, and a souterrain lay inside it. When the stones were removed in 1832, large bones were found in that underground passage.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE036-007001- · source

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Castle - unclassified, Castlegregory

What it said · 182 of 182 words

Right beside the road here at Castlegregory in Kerry, there was once a castle. A. O'Daly, in his satire 'The Tribes of Ireland', probably meant this place when he wrote of the 'House of Hore'. By 1601 the castle belonged to the Husseys. During the Cromwellian conquest, probably in 1649, Walter Hussey garrisoned it. Pressed by Parliament forces, the garrison escaped to Minard Castle, where they were, in Smith's words, 'blown up by powder'. The castle was still standing in Smith's time, but by 1841 no trace of it remained. Fragments from it survive, though. Some are preserved in a garden behind Egan's shop in Castlegregory. Two arched limestone sections of a doorway have been incorrectly assembled into an ornamental gateway. They are chamfered and tooled, with recessed spandrels holding a contracted inscription that is clearly legible but was wrongly expanded into a romantic tale in the Kerry Magazine in 1854 and 1855. A rectangular limestone block with a splayed keyhole-shaped opening may have been a musket loop. Hitchcock in 1855 recorded that two of these stones were set on either side of a fireplace in a house in Castlegregory. On the east side of Taylors Row, near the castle site, there is a section of chamfered door jamb with ornamental punch dressing of 16th or 17th century character. Other fragments include a moulded section of architrave or cornice, a keel-moulded sandstone block probably dating to the late 12th or 13th century, and an irregularly-shaped sandstone basin that may have been a font. One stone was taken by Archdeacon Rowan and built into the wall of Edenburn House, where a description from 1899 says it remains.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE027-008---- · source

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Vessels plying Lough Gill between Sligo and Dromahair

What it said · 98 of 98 words

As the road takes you along Lough Gill, you are on a lake that once carried cargo between Sligo and Dromahair. In 1839 a schooner called the Maid of the Mills was launched on these waters, to ply between Sligo and the mills at Dromahair. In 1843 Mr. Kernaghan's steam-boat, the Lady of the Lake, took up the same route. She was succeeded by Mr. Kell's Maid of Breffney, which continued the passage until she was wrecked in 1885. After that, this mode of transit for merchandize entirely collapsed, all traffic being carried on by the Sligo, Leitrim, and Northern Counties Railway. The coming of the railway was long in the negotiating. In 1852 the Corporation passed a resolution expressing "their most anxious wish to have Sligo connected with the capital by means of a railway." On the 15th of February, 1856, they petitioned Parliament against a bill brought forward by a company styled the North Western, the projected line being, in their opinion, likely to be most injurious to the trade of Sligo. On the 2nd of June of the following year they approved of the Sligo extension of the Midland Great Western Railway, if that company guaranteed completion of the line in five years, the road to be commenced simultaneously at Sligo and Longford. English navvies were employed at this time, and astonished the natives as much by the amount of work done as by their predilection for rook-pie, a then unheard of dish.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from History of Sligo, county and town, from the close of the Revolution of 1688 to the present time (1892), Wood-Martin, W. G. (William Gregory), 1847-1917, Internet Archive historyofsligoco00wood, Chapter 106 · source

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Castle - tower house, Killiney

What it said · 90 of 90 words

Right beside the road here is the tower house at Killiney, on the Magharees peninsula. It's a two-storey rectangular tower, ivy-covered and in poor condition, with the upper walls bulging outward and much of the east wall fallen. The ground-floor vault is sealed up, converted to a family burial vault in the 1800s. A doorway on the north side at first-floor level once led in from the church next door, probably by a wooden stair, and a spiral stair in the corner climbed to a wall walk on the roof.

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Ritual site - holy well, Killiney

What it said · 55 of 55 words

Right beside the road here is a holy well called Toberiney, or Tobar Éinne, at the base of the Magharees peninsula. It is a large pool partly defined by stones, with a small stream flowing north-west from it. People came here in the early morning during May and June, especially on the 24th of June.

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Children's burial ground, Tullig (Corkaguiny By., Castlegregory Ed)

What it said · 42 of 42 words

Here beside the road, on low-lying level ground at the south-west side of Tralee Bay, is a place known locally as a fort. It was also reputedly used for the burial of unbaptised infants. Not much more than that has come down.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE036-006001- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Ardbeg

What it said · 62 of 62 words

There is a holy well here, right beside the road, though there is nothing left to see. It was called Tobar Muire, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, patroness of Stradbally Parish. It was once a small well, about 2 feet wide, covered overhead with a flagstone. People made rounds here on the 15th of August, but the well has been destroyed.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE035-021---- · source

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Burial, Gowlane (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 46 of 46 words

Right here at Gowlane in Kerry, two grave-like structures were discovered about 30 years ago on the coastal strip bordering the south side of Brandon Bay. Each was roughly 6 feet long and covered by 3 slabs. No bones were found inside, according to local information.

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Burial ground, Aughanna

What it said · 40 of 40 words

Right here at Aughanna in Kerry, a burial ground is believed to have once existed. A stone cross and 3 human skulls were found in the field to the south-east, but there is no memory of it in local tradition.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE035-017003- · source

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Castle - unclassified, Formaoil (Tc An Sráidbhaile)

What it said · 53 of 53 words

There's a castle site right here at Formaoil, though nothing survives above ground. Fermoyle Castle once stood a short distance north-east of Fermoyle House. When that house went up around 1843, workers hit partial foundations presumed to be the castle's. The site lies near the seashore at the south side of Brandon Bay.

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Children's burial ground, Fearann Na Cille (Tc An Daingean)

What it said · 127 of 127 words

Right here is a children's burial ground in Fearann na Cille. The townland takes its name from a church that no longer survives, though the field east of the bridge over the Glennahoo river still bears the name Pairc na Cille. In the next field east of that one are the remains of a roughly triangular burial enclosure, about 34 metres north to south and 17.6 metres east to west. The townland boundary wall runs along its east side, partly overlying the collapsed enclosure wall. A bank of turf-covered stones, up to 1 metre high, marks the north-north-west side. The ground inside sits raised about 0.9 metres above the level on the downhill side. The site looks out over the mouths of the Glennahoo and Scorid rivers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE035-042003- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, An Baile Dubh

What it said · 198 of 198 words

Right here at An Baile Dubh in Kerry is St Nicholas's Well, a holy well that is now dry. The water was diverted to drain the field and now issues about 100 metres downslope. A cross-inscribed stone that once stood beside the well now lies loose on the surface. It is a small thin slab with a simple incised Latin cross on one face. St Nicholas is the patron saint of Ballyduff parish, and large numbers of people visited on his feast day, the 6th of December. The field is known as Páirc an Turasa, and pilgrims made 3 circuits of the whole field as part of the turas. They walked slowly from right to left while reciting the Rosary, three times round. The water was applied to the affected part, sometimes drunk, but never taken away. When leaving, the pilgrim left some small object near the well. Tradition says a woman from the neighbourhood once took water home for household use. When she poured it into a kettle, she saw a little trout swimming in it. The water would not boil, so she had to take it back to the well and get a fresh supply elsewhere.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE035-065001- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, An Clochán (Tc An Clochán)

What it said · 102 of 102 words

Right here at An Clochán in Kerry is where St. Brendan's Well once stood, on the bank of a small river near the Owenmore estuary. No trace of it is visible now. Rounds were made here as part of the great Pattern of Cloghane, which followed the pilgrimage to Mount Brandon on Domhnach Chrom Dubh, the last Sunday of July. In 1960 Ó Danachair described it as a small spring well close to the churchyard, and noted that a visit to the well formed part of the ritual. He said it was not visited otherwise, and the pattern was already almost extinct.

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Children's burial ground, Duagh (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 110 of 110 words

Right here is a children's burial ground, known in Irish as Cill Cumnachta, on level ground near the Meennascarty river at the entrance to Gleann Locha. An oval stone wall encloses the foundations of a church and numerous low upright gravemarkers, some just centimetres tall, aligned north to south. The County Kerry Field Club recorded in 1945 that many graves were square box-like structures covered by stone mounds, though only one such arrangement can be made out now. A bullaun stone sits just outside the wall, and a porthole slab from a souterrain lies loose within the enclosure. A fragment of a rotary quernstone was also noted here in 1945.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE036-027001- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Scrallaghbeg

What it said · 142 of 142 words

Right here beside the road is a well, Tobar na nGealt, the Well of the Lunatics, in Gleann na nGealt in Kerry. This valley has been a resort for mad people since at least the 17th century. They came to drink the water from two wells and to eat the watercress that grows on the margin. This particular well sits in dense wood, and its exact spot could not be identified on the day it was surveyed, but it was apparently a natural spring with a rivulet flowing from it. Patrick Joyce, writing in 1869, recorded what was known about it. He said there are two wells in the glen, both called Tobernagalt, the lunatics' well. The madmen crossed the little stream that flows through the valley at a spot called Ahagaltaun, the madman's ford, and passed by Cloghnagalt, the standing stone of the lunatics. They drank of the healing waters, and ate some of the cresses that grow on the margin. Joyce wrote that the water and the cress, and the secret virtue of the valley, will restore the poor wanderers to sanity. A folklorist called Ó Danachair, writing in 1960, noted that locally the well was called Tobar na nGealt, Tobar na Geilte, or Madman's Well. He said neither of the two wells is regarded as a holy well, but both held a cure for the lunatics who flocked to Gleann na nGealt to drink the water and eat the watercresses. He said there are many tales of cures.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE036-057---- · source

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Children's burial ground, Scrallaghbeg

What it said · 52 of 52 words

Right here at Scrallaghbeg is a children's burial ground, beside the entrance to Gleann na nGealt. The site sits on a steep slope, but a laneway runs through the middle of it now and much of it is destroyed. Some possible graves were noted, and it was reputedly used for burying children.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE036-037002- · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Doonore South

What it said · 169 of 169 words

Right beside the road here, at Doonore South in Kerry, there is a well called Tobernagalt, the lunatics' well. Gleann na nGealt was the traditional resort of mad people from at least the 17th century. They came to drink the water from two wells in the valley and to eat the watercress. This well is a shallow pool of fresh spring water with an abundant cover of watercress and other water-weeds. Joyce, writing in 1869, recorded that there are two wells in the glen, called Tobernagalt, the lunatics' well. The madmen direct their way there, crossing the little stream that flows through the valley at a spot called Ahagaltaun, the madman's ford, and passing by Cloghnagalt, the standing stone of the lunatics. They drink of the healing waters and eat some of the cresses that grow on the margin. Joyce wrote that the water and the cress and the secret virtue of the valley will restore the poor wanderers to sanity. In 1942 the well was described as a small spring well, reputedly never dry, and visited by large crowds of mentally affected people up to recent times seeking cure from their temporary insanity. Ó Danachair, writing in 1960, said that two wells both named Tobernagalt appear on the 1842 map. Both are called Tobar na nGealt, Tobar na Geilte, or Madman's Well locally. Neither is regarded as a holy well, but both held a cure for the lunatics who flocked to Gleann na nGealt to drink the water and eat the watercresses. There are many tales of cures.

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Ritual site - holy well, Maumnahaltora

What it said · 209 of 209 words

Here at Maumnahaltora in Kerry, right beside the road, there's a holy well that was part of a ritual pilgrimage, or turas, made between the 24th and 29th of June. Two megalithic tombs, an upright slab, and a pair of contiguous slabs were all part of the rounds. There's disagreement about where the well actually was. The 1842 map marks Tobernahaltora at one tomb, and one account says "the Cromlech contains the Holy Well but it is now dry." Another record notes that a second tomb is locally called "the well," while later maps place the well about 60 metres south-west of the altar as a separate site. The rounds were made partly at the altar, a small low mound with upright slabs protruding from it, and partly at the well, the two being about 150 yards apart. Prayers were said at the upright slab and the pair of contiguous slabs between them. A few people still made the rounds when they were recorded in 1960, though formerly many came. The legends say the well dried up or moved when someone took water for domestic use. Water from the well would not boil. A fish was found in it, and both fish and water were restored to the well.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE045-013004- · source

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Burial, Emlagh (Corkaguiny By., Inch Ed)

What it said · 143 of 143 words

Right here, in Emlagh, a clothed body was found buried 1 metre deep in the bog in 1950. The find spot was recorded as Cloghane Parish, but that was wrong. Several independent sources, including an eye witness to the discovery, place it here in Emlagh townland, Ballinvoher parish, near the north corner of the townland in an area now forested. The body was a child of 6 to 8 years, probably male, with a considerable amount of reddish brown hair. He was wearing a long pinafore-like dress and a possible cloak, with fragments of 2 other garments. A double-sided wooden comb lay with him, and a leather purse holding a tuft of flax fibres and a ball of woollen thread. A detailed report was published in 1966. The burial was considered unlikely to be older than the 17th century and probably somewhat later.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE045-046---- · source

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Children's burial ground, An Luachair

What it said · 68 of 68 words

Right here at An Luachair in Kerry is a children's burial ground, known locally by that name. It once held numerous little mounds and was named Ráth na nÓg, according to Ashe in 1954. The site straddled the main Anascaul to Tralee road. The southern part is now a tree plantation, and the northern part was destroyed by a mechanical excavator, though no bones or graves were revealed.

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Children's burial ground, Kilduff (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 51 of 51 words

Right here is Kilduff, a children's burial ground marked Cill Dubh. It's a rectangular drystone enclosure on a steep slope, measuring about 33 by 28 metres, with walls no different from the surrounding field walls. The uneven ground inside is natural. Children were still being buried here in the 19th century.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE045-009002- · source

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Burial ground, Rathmalode

What it said · 31 of 31 words

Right here at Rathmalode in Kerry, a spot west of the farmhouse is reputedly the site of a burial ground. No bones or graves have been uncovered here within living memory.

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Burial, Ballinagroun

What it said · 53 of 53 words

Right here at Ballinagroun, there are two upright stones standing about .7 metres apart in waste ground behind a house, roughly 150 metres north of Castlemaine Harbour. The north-east stone is .6 metres high, its long axis running south-east to north-west. Locally, these stones are said to mark the graves of two soldiers.

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Ritual site - holy well, Inch West (Corkaguiny By.)

What it said · 158 of 158 words

Right here is the site of Turrasnadíha Well, also called Tobar na Croise, the Well of the Cross, in Inch West. The well itself appears to have been filled in or diverted, but the cross-slab that stood over it is still in place. The stone stands 0.55 metres high and bears a Greek cross on its south-south-east face. The arms of the cross end in slightly bulbous depressions, and a penannular circle surrounds the outer portion of each arm, together forming a trifid motif. A pilgrimage called Turas na Duimhche was carried out here on Saint John's Day, Midsummer, until at least 1960. Ó Danachair recorded the details that year. The well appears on the 1842 map marked as Turrasnadiha Well. The local names Turas na Duimhche and Tobar na Croise come from the stone at the well with a cross carved upon it. The pilgrimage was still being carried out in 1960, though not by as many as formerly. The pilgrim recites a rosary on the way to the well. He then makes nine circuits of the well, saying a pater and ave during each circuit. After that, he goes to a place on the edge of the cliff called Bun an Turais, and says some prayers there. The pilgrimage may also have included a visit to Com an Bhráthar, part of the sea-cliff about 350 metres south of the well.

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Ritual site - holy well, Ballinclare

What it said · 163 of 163 words

Right here at the junction of Ballinclare, Farrannacarriga and Gurteen is Tobernacrusha, the holy well of the cross. The well is dry now, but a stone stands over it, about 0.88 metres high, bearing a plain Latin cross in relief on its east face. A pilgrimage, or turas, was held here on the 27th of August. By 1960, fewer pilgrims came, and the day had shifted to Saint John's Day, Midsummer. A pilgrim would recite a rosary on the way to the well, then make nine circuits of it, saying a pater and an ave during each circuit. After that, they went to a place on the edge of a cliff about 600 yards to the south west, called Bun an Turais, and said prayers there. The well itself measured 6 feet by 3 feet and was protected with flagstones. A survey in 1942 noted that the eastern stone held many small crosses carved by pilgrims, back when this was a penitential station.

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Ritual site - holy well, Gortacurraun

What it said · 107 of 107 words

Right here beside the road in Gortacurraun is a holy well called Toberreendoney, the Well of the King of Sunday. It's a spring well set in a rock cavity on the east side of the stream that marks the boundary between Gortacurraun and Farrannacarriga. A little upstream, in a small crevice, there's a cross-inscribed stone bearing a simple Latin cross with T-bar terminals. In 1960, Ó Danachair recorded that the spring sat in the side of a deep gully, much overgrown with fuchsia, with no devotions at that time. But the Ordnance Survey name books had earlier noted that inhabitants gave rounds here, generally on Sunday morning.

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Children's burial ground, Gort Na Gcuileannach

What it said · 149 of 149 words

Right here at Gort na gCúileannach in Kerry is a children's burial ground, though locals knew it as a fort. Hitchcock identified it as a rath in 1853, and the field is called Páirc an Leasa. A cross-inscribed ogham stone once served as a lintel over the doorway of a D-shaped clochaun inside the enclosure. Hitchcock removed that stone and a quernstone from the site and gave them to the Royal Irish Academy. The ogham stone is now in the National Museum. The site itself has been badly disturbed and used as a quarry for road metal, though a curving bank of earth and stone can still be traced around the western half. In 1848 Windele was told locally that the place had been used as a burial ground for children, but not within living memory. Quartz stones scattered about could have been brought in to mark those burials.

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Burial, Log Na Gcapall

What it said · 112 of 112 words

This is the burial site at Log na gCapall, right here beside the road. The low cairn called Cnoc na Fola sits on a ridge overlooking Minard to the south, in a field known as Páirc na Fola, said to be the scene of a bloody battle in ancient times. The cairn was believed to mark the graves of those slain. In 1838 Windele was told that a cave containing bones had been found nearby, and that graves and bones were often turned up during ploughing. Three standing stones were said to mark the heads of large graves about 4.6 metres long. No traces of these features survive on the surface today.

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Children's burial ground, An Gabhlán Ard

What it said · 46 of 46 words

Right here at An Gabhlán Ard is what the Ordnance Survey maps mark as a graveyard. The OS name books called it a calluragh, but the remains seem to be those of a cashel with hut-sites. Its use as a burial ground may have come later.

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Burial ground, Arda Mór (Tc Cinn Aird)

What it said · 115 of 115 words

Right here beside the road is the old burial ground at Arda Mór, a roughly circular enclosure on the north bank of the Glaunshavanowen river. Bones have been uncovered here in the past, and locally people have always thought of it as a graveyard. It's ringed by a stone-topped earthen bank, though part of that has been lost to a field wall. Inside, there are the foundations of a rectangular structure aligned east to west, and stony mounds that probably mark graves. But the internal ruins suggest it may have been more than a burial ground, perhaps a rath or an early ecclesiastical settlement. About 475 metres to the south-east, the Ardamore cross-slab was discovered.

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Children's burial ground, Páirc An Teampaill

What it said · 85 of 85 words

Right here is a children's burial ground, within a large oval earthen bank on the valley floor. The ruins of Templemartin church, or Teampall Mártain, stand in the eastern part of the enclosure. Children were buried here until the early part of the twentieth century, though no graves or markers are visible now. The banked enclosure holds the foundations of three or four rectangular house sites and a possible souterrain. The bank stands up to 2.4 metres high on the outside and 1.4 metres inside.

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Ritual site - holy well, Baile An ístínigh

What it said · 67 of 67 words

Right here in Baile An ístínigh is Tobar Mártain, a holy well marked now by a waterlogged hollow in a marshy field. People made rounds here on Easter Sunday and on Saint Martin's Day, the 11th of November. There was a pattern here in former times, with games and dancing. The well itself is gone from view, but the ground still holds the water where it stood.

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Ritual site - holy well, An Ghairfeanaigh

What it said · 70 of 70 words

Right here at An Ghairfeaigh in Kerry is the site of a holy well called Toberaroon, the well of the secret, also known as Tobar Ghobnait. The field where it sat has been reclaimed and the spring is no longer evident. People were still visiting on Easter Sunday until at least 1960. A recent inspection found a small clear spring in a dense willow copse, flowing out into the stream.

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Children's burial ground, Baile An Tsagairt (Tc Na Gleannta)

What it said · 132 of 132 words

Right here on this hillock between Dingle Harbour and Trabeg is a children's burial ground, known as An Cheallúnach or An Lisín. A church once stood within the circular enclosure, but no trace of it survives and nothing more is known about it. Children were still being buried here in the mid-1800s. A low cairn of stones, much of it quartz, lies about 13 metres east of the enclosure, and beyond that again are "other tombs with great unshapen stones half buried." The burial ground is enclosed by an earthen bank with a drystone wall added sometime between the 1840s and 1890s. You enter by stiles at the north and south-west. Ogham stones were placed here in recent times, and the interior holds a confusion of low mounds and upright grave markers.

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Fourteen killed when troops fire on Dingle mob

What it said · 148 of 299 words

Somewhere around here, in 1793, thousands of armed insurgents entered Dingle to swear the inhabitants to their cause. They had proclaimed at their chapels and by posted notices that they would meet in great numbers on St. John's day, the 24th of June, and carry all their plans into execution. Mr. Mullins got 70 soldiers from Limerick, who marched into Dingle the day before the intended meeting, and he gave public notice that he would oppose them. The insurgents were not deterred. They entered the town in immense numbers, armed with guns, pistols, swords, pikes, and scythes mounted on poles. Mr. Mullins, desirous to prevent the effusion of blood, remained in the barrack with the troops till three o'clock, though the insurgents were two hours in possession of the town. But when they began to commit acts of violence on the inhabitants and their houses, he marched out. The mob fired on the soldiers and pelted them with stones. The troops fired back, killing 14 of the insurgents and wounding many. The crowd dispersed and fled, and did not stop until they arrived at some cliffs over the sea, ten miles off. They would not return till they had made peace with the magistrates. Most of them gave information one against another, and they swore that their intention was to have killed all the protestant gentlemen and to have confiscated their estates. It was proved afterwards that this plot was general in the county of Kerry and extended even to the county of Limerick, with persons stationed at Tralee and Tarbert ready to convey the news so that all the inhabitants of that immense tract of country might have risen at the same moment. The exemplary punishment of these insurgents kept the county of Kerry peaceful for years afterward.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Memoirs of the different rebellions in Ireland, from the arrival of the English : also, a particular detail of that which broke out the XXIIId of May, MDCCXCVIII : with the history of the conspiracy which preceded it (vol. 2) (1802), Musgrave, Richard, 1745 or 1746-1818, Internet Archive memoirsofdiffere02musg, Chapter 133 · source

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Ritual site - holy well, An Fearann (Tc An Daingean)

What it said · 149 of 228 words

Right beside the road here in Dingle, in the backyard of a house on The Mall, you have St. John's Well. It was a holy well where rounds were made each year on the 24th of June, up to about 1900. The ritual involved kneeling at the well to say five paters and five aves, then walking three circuits of the well while saying a rosary, followed by a prayer to the patron, kneeling again at the well. For the full ritual this was repeated nine times, and pebbles were used to count the rounds. The well was said to cure many ailments. Rags were hung on a thorn tree beside it, now gone. A small pillar stone stands at the well, about 0.41 metres high, bearing a Latin cross with expanded terminals on its north face and the initials FD carved beneath the cross in fairly recent times. A legend tells that water was drawn from the well and set to boil, but it could not be heated. A trout was found in the pot, and both water and trout were returned to the well. An ogham stone was reportedly discovered in an adjacent wall and moved near the railway station, though nothing more is known of it. One account said the cross-slab itself bore the ogham inscription, but no traces of scores remain on the stone.

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Castle - tower house, An Daingean

What it said · 230 of 230 words

Here in An Daingean, right on Main Street, there was a castle built by the Husseys. After the Desmond Rebellion it was granted to the Earl of Ormond in the confiscations, and later bought by the Knight of Kerry. It became known as the Market House and served as the official residence of the Sovereign of Dingle. The vaults underneath were used as the town jail until 1815. A proposed charter of 1585 granted the corporation a house forfeited by John Hussey to make a gaol and common court-house. Smith in 1756 said it was functioning as the town gaol by then. By 1841 O'Donovan could find no trace of it, but Hitchcock in the 1850s described a low dark doorway and a small cut stone grated window still visible, along with a pointed doorway built into modern walls and a stone with raised carving resembling a tree. A medieval pointed doorway was recorded on the site in 1853. Around 1952 a lintelled passageway leading to a chamber about 3 by 1 metres was uncovered in an adjacent garden, possibly part of the castle complex. Nothing of those features survives today. But a decorated stone does survive, embedded in the wall of a building behind what is now a supermarket. It carries a 16th century paired vine motif with an interlaced stem, described in relief as two intertwined ivy leaves.

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Castle - tower house, An Gróbh

What it said · 64 of 64 words

Right here at An Gróbh in Kerry once stood a castle called Caisleán na bhFiach. In 1565 the Knight of Kerry sold it to Richard Trant, a transaction recorded in contemporary documents. It stood at the north end of Main Street, on the site of the 19th century Temperance Hall that now houses the local library, but nothing else is known of its history.

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Burial, Baile An Mhuilinn (Corca Dhuibhne)

What it said · 79 of 79 words

Here is the burial ground at Kilbrack, in Baile an Mhuilinn. It was used for the burial of unbaptised children until the 19th century. The ground sits on a gentle south-facing slope overlooking Dingle Harbour. In the east part of the enclosure, at the east end of a low stone and earth mound, stands a feature resembling large cist graves, formed by 3 stones set on edge, 0.7 to 0.9 metres in height, though it does not appear complete.

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Castle - unclassified, Baile An Ghóilín

What it said · 72 of 72 words

This is the site of Ballingolin Castle, right beside the road here in Baile An Ghóilín. It belonged to the Rice family but was forfeited and destroyed before 1641. Frederick Mullins bought the confiscated property in 1666 and renamed it Burnham. The Mullins family became the largest landowners on the peninsula and were made Lord Ventry in 1800. There was no trace of the castle by 1841 and nothing visible remains today.

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Burial, Baile An Ghóilín

What it said · 34 of 34 words

Right here, south of Burnham House, now Coláiste Íde, two slab-lined graves were found. Each was about 2 metres long and held an extended skeleton. There's no date or further detail recorded for them.

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Ritual site - holy well, Baile Mór Thiar

What it said · 130 of 130 words

Right here is Tobermichael, a holy well at Baile Mór Thiar in Kerry. It's a spring well now surrounded by a concrete wall, and on the parapet of the bridge nearby stands a small upright stone with plain Latin crosses on it. People used to come in large numbers for a pattern on Michaelmas day, and a few still make rounds then — nine circuits of the well while reciting a rosary, counting the circuits with pebbles. The water is drunk and applied for the cure of headache, toothache, warts and other ailments, and small objects are left as offerings. There's a legend about a fish that lives in the well: someone once took it with some water, and the water would not boil until the fish was put back.

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Burial, An Clochán (Tc Na Gleannta)

What it said · 101 of 101 words

Right here beside the road is a badly decayed ringfort on a slope overlooking Ventry Harbour. It holds the most extensive souterrain recorded on the Dingle Peninsula, along with two possible hut sites. When the landowner's father was drawing stones from the site, he apparently uncovered a slab-lined grave, and inside was an iron box containing coins. Deane in 1893 noted a skull and other bones in two chambers of the souterrain, and Champneys in 1910 was likely referring to the same remains when he wrote of two bodies found in a sitting position in a very elaborate souterrain near Ventry.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, An Chathair Aird

What it said · 204 of 204 words

Right beside the road here is a wedge tomb the records call Labbanirweeny, Leaba an Fhir Mhuimhnigh, sitting on fairly level ground near the summit of Caherard Hill. It is well preserved and commands an extensive outlook from Brandon mountain in the north-east to the mountains of the Iveragh peninsula in the south, to Mount Eagle and Croaghmarhin in the west. The gallery runs east to west, about 4 metres long, narrowing slightly from 1.2 metres wide at the open west end to 1.1 metres at the east end, and dropping in height from 1 metre at the entrance to .6 metres at the backstone. Three overlapping roofstones cover it, and two low stones at the west end seem to form a short narrow portico. Each side-wall is made of five orthostats, decreasing in height from west to east. The westernmost stone on the south side has collapsed, so the west roofstone now lies tilted. The east end is closed by a single slab, and faint traces of a low mound rise no more than .25 metres around it. The survey was carried out by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin for the Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland, published in 1982.

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The Year-Long Battle of Ventry Harbour

What it said · 147 of 147 words

Somewhere close to Ventry, a legendary battle once raged on the strand. Daire Donn, King of Rome, landed his fleet at the harbour after a traitorous Fenian led him there. The warriors nearest the post of danger hastened to meet them, and for a year and a day there was a terrible daily fight on the strand. Each day a detachment landed from the ships and an equal number of Fenian heroes met them. One great warrior generally slew a couple of hundred of the opposing party and secured a portion of the tale to himself, just as Agamemnon or Diomede or Patroclus had a book of the Iliad he might call his own. It all ended in favour of native valour and patriotism, few of the captains of the King of the World surviving the year and day's war. The brave young Gall, Prince of Ulster, worked himself into such a state of fury that he lost his senses and fled to the lonely Glenn-na-nGealt in Kerry. There all the lunatics in Ireland must repair before or after they pay the great debt. Spenser, in his own day, disliked the custom that sent the inhabitants of plains and valleys up to the hills in summer, where they lived in imitation of the Fianna on game and the produce of their cattle. He complained this afforded the disaffected shelter among the "scraw-covered" shielings and opportunities to concoct designs unfriendly to the authority of his beloved Gloriana.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Legendary Fictions of the Irish Celts (1866), Patrick Kennedy, Project Gutenberg #legendaryfiction00kenn, Chapter 48 · source

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Children's burial ground, Cill Mhic An Domhnaigh

What it said · 127 of 127 words

Here is a children's burial ground, Cill Mhic An Domhnaigh, right here on the lower eastern slopes of Mount Eagle in Kerry. It's an oval enclosure, about 68 metres north to south and 46 metres east to west, marked mostly by a very low bank. Inside, there are the remains of a clochaun, a possible souterrain, and a cross-slab. Crawford listed a second cross-slab here in 1912, and Curran recorded two quernstones found at the site, but none of those pieces are accounted for now. A stone wall stands along part of the north-west side, up to 2 metres high on the outside, and its lower section may be the original enclosing wall. Another cross-slab rests against a field fence about 45 metres south-east of the enclosure.

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Ritual site - holy well, Cill Mhic An Domhnaigh

What it said · 38 of 38 words

Right here is the holy well of Cill Mhic An Domhnaigh, also called Toberreendoney, the Sunday Well. It is a spring now enclosed in a concrete container. People made rounds here up until about 1910, chiefly on Sundays.

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Burial, Fán

What it said · 60 of 60 words

Right here at Fán in Kerry, two archaeologists recorded a stone structure in 1899. Curran and Macalister described 4 large slabs set on edge, each 3 to 5 feet long and about 1.5 feet high. Curran thought it resembled the remains of a ruined cormlech, while Macalister suggested it might have been a cist grave. No visible trace survives today.

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Children's burial ground, Fán

What it said · 28 of 28 words

Right here beside the road is a children's burial ground, known as Templebeg. According to Macalister, this graveyard was used for burying unbaptised children in the 19th century.

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Dunbeg Fort

What it said · 41 of 41 words

Somewhere close to this place is Dunbeg Fort, an Iron Age promontory fort near Ventry in County Kerry. That's all the record gives us. No battles, no names, just a fort built on a headland, standing here since the Iron Age.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), en.wikipedia.org: Dunbeg Fort · source

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Ritual site - holy well, Fán

What it said · 40 of 40 words

Right beside the road here at Fán in Kerry is a natural spring called Tobar Mhuire, Mary's Well. A spring gushing from the rocks of a rough watercourse, it was known as a holy well, but no other tradition survives.

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Burial, Com Dhíneol Thuaidh

What it said · 26 of 26 words

Here at Com Dhíneol Thuaidh in Kerry, two burials were found, reputedly linked to the Spanish Armada. The association rests on local information passed to UCC.

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Old Man Washed Out to Sea and Wake Held in Dunquin

What it said · 146 of 176 words

You are around Dunquin now, a parish on the far western edge of Kerry, and it was here a strange wake was once held for a man who was not dead. A local man told the story of three men out in a canoe when the sea rose on them. They tried to come in under the cliff but the waves were too great. Two young men jumped for the rocks and made it. The third man was sixty, or near it, and too stiff to jump. He was washed back out in the canoe, and when it came on dark, all thought he was drowned. They held his wake in Dunquin. But the steamer that traded between Valentia, Dingle and Cahirciveen came into Dingle two or three days later, and there he was on board, as the local man said, "as hearty as a salmon." When he was washed back he got hold of an oar and kept the canoe's head to the wind, and the tide took him along until he was picked up.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from In Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara (1911), Synge, J. M. (John Millington), 1871-1909, Internet Archive inwicklowwestker00syngrich, Chapter 1 · source

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Children's burial ground, An Tseantóir, Baile An Bhiocáire

What it said · 129 of 230 words

Right here beside the road is a children's burial ground, a circular calluragh about 6 metres across, in the townland of Baile An Bhiocáire in Kerry. At its centre stands a grave marked by a cross-inscribed stone, a rectangular mound of 5.7 metres by 4 metres with large prostrate slabs and two standing stones. The taller stone, 1.25 metres high, bears a simple cross with expanded terminals on one face and faint linear markings on the other. In the 19th century a second stone lay loose beside it, inscribed with a Maltese cross within a circle. Two traditions attach to this grave. An Seabhac in 1939 recorded the names Uaigh Mhóire and Teampall Mhóire for what he called the traditional burial place of the goddess Mór in the townland. There is also a local tradition that the grave holds the Prince d'Ascoli, son of Phillip of Spain, who drowned when the Santa Maria de la Rosa was wrecked in the Blasket Sound in 1588. The name Tigh Mhóire, found in much of the literature, actually refers to a cabin about 60 metres to the north-east, not the burial ground itself, which had no particular name in the early 19th century. A curved section of the townland boundary wall to the east may mark the site of a clochaun, with a small semi-circular recess at ground level on its inner face.

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Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Baile An Bhiocáire, Gleann Loic

What it said · 73 of 73 words

Right beside the road here in Baile an Bhiocáire is a ruined megalithic tomb, known locally as Leac na mBuachaillí mBána. It sits near the foot of the north-west slope of Mount Eagle, built into a townland boundary fence on the north side of a disused laneway. Two roofstones are partly embedded in that fence, one supported by a single sidestone. There isn't enough left to say what type of tomb it was.

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Megalithic tomb - wedge tomb, Baile An Teampaill

What it said · 88 of 88 words

Right beside the road here in Baile an Teampaill is a wedge tomb, set into the slope above the valley floor between Mount Eagle and Croaghmarhin. It is partly buried and easily missed. What remains is fragmentary: a single stone to the north-east and three along the south-west side are probably outer walling, while an upright stone and a fallen one nearby may be the remains of a facade. Many slabs scattered over the mound could have belonged to the tomb, though some are clearly just field clearance.

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Ritual site - holy well, Ceathrú An Fheirtéaraigh

What it said · 174 of 174 words

You're right beside Tobar Ghobnait, a holy well here in Ceathrú An Fheirtéaraigh where rounds are still made on St. Gobnait's day, the 11th of February. The well lies about 200 metres southwest of a possible early ecclesiastical site also named for St. Gobnait. Folklore collected from Kilgobnet School tells of a great Pattern fair held here on the feast day. Buyers came from all over the country. There were white tents all over the place, and every house in the district became a shebeen on that day. Faction fights broke out at this fair. The Protestants from Dingle came to fight with the Catholics of this district, and the result was often sorrow and bloodshed, as great numbers were often killed. The fair was held in one of Mr. Shea's fields in Kilgobnet, with toll gates where everyone had to pay before going in. The old fair was destroyed by a fair held the previous day in Killorglin. Though now held in Killorglin, five miles away, it is still called the Pattern Fair.

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Ritual site - holy well, Baile Eaglaise, Tíorabháin

What it said · 53 of 53 words

Right beside the road here is Tobar na bhFaithní, a well in Baile Eaglaise, Tíorabháin, in Kerry. Dense vegetation obscures it and it sits on poor, marshy land on the east bank of a stream. The water apparently had curative powers, but it is not known whether the well was ever considered holy.

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Burial, Baile An Chalaidh

What it said · 79 of 79 words

Right here at Baile An Chalaidh in Kerry, a drystone-built grave of average size was found beside a field fence about 40 years ago. There are conflicting reports as to whether it contained bones or not. About a metre away on the other side of the same fence is a stony area known locally as a liosachán, roughly 11 by 13 metres and low, with one standing stone. Nobody knows how the two relate or what the liosachán is.

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Children's burial ground, Baile An Bhaoithín

What it said · 125 of 136 words

Right beside the road here is an early Christian settlement called Calluragh burial ground, a National Monument on the slope of Croaghmarhin. A circular wall encloses an area about 68 metres north to south and 61 metres east to west, and the road itself cuts through the site, isolating a small part of the southern enclosure. The northern part holds low stony grave mounds, no more than a quarter metre high and between 1.8 and 2.5 metres long, incorporating a good deal of quartz. A roughly circular arrangement of large stones near the enclosure wall at the north may also mark a grave, and other graves have been found outside the enclosure on the road side opposite the stone cross. These were calluragh burials, the term used for children's burial grounds in this part of Kerry.

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Wild Atlantic Way 6/8 Dingle: Tarbert → Ballyferriter

The drive in numbers

How the narrator kept up

What it said, in order

Beggars and a running courier near Tarbert

Poverty and house repair near Tarbert

Children's burial ground, Dooncaha

Ritual site - holy well, Lislaughtin

Ritual site - holy well, Ballymacasy

Children's burial ground, Tullahennel North

Children's burial ground, Killomeerhoe

Children's burial ground, Loughanes

Megalithic tomb - unclassified, Ballydonohoe

Children's burial ground, Ballyconry

Castle - tower house, Ballybunnion

Siege of Benmore castle near Loughrea relieved

Castle - unclassified, Rathmorrel

Ritual site - holy well, Feeans

Ballyheigue Castle

Castle - unclassified, Ballyheige

Unknown wreck, Ballyheigue Strand (1825)

Burial ground, Kill (Clanmaurice By.)

Casement, Bailey and Monteith land at Ardfert strand

Castle - unclassified, Ardfert

Casement and Bailey arrested at rath near Ardfert

Ritual site - holy well, Ballymakegoge

Castle - unclassified, Balloonagh

Beheading of the Earl of Desmond near Tralee

Birchfield, seat of Cornelius O'Brien

Siege of Tralee

Castle - unclassified, Tralee

hospital/infirmary, Tralee

Children's burial ground, Annagh (Trughanacmy By., Kiltallagh Ed)

Children's burial ground, Doire Mhór Thiar

Children's burial ground, Killelton (Corkaguiny By.)

Children's burial ground, Killelton (Corkaguiny By.)

Castle - unclassified, Camp (Corkaguiny By.)

Burial, Caher (Corkaguiny By.)

Castle - unclassified, Castlegregory

Vessels plying Lough Gill between Sligo and Dromahair

Castle - tower house, Killiney

Ritual site - holy well, Killiney

Children's burial ground, Tullig (Corkaguiny By., Castlegregory Ed)

Ritual site - holy well, Ardbeg

Burial, Gowlane (Corkaguiny By.)

Burial ground, Aughanna

Castle - unclassified, Formaoil (Tc An Sráidbhaile)

Children's burial ground, Fearann Na Cille (Tc An Daingean)

Ritual site - holy well, An Baile Dubh

Ritual site - holy well, An Clochán (Tc An Clochán)

Children's burial ground, Duagh (Corkaguiny By.)

Ritual site - holy well, Scrallaghbeg

Children's burial ground, Scrallaghbeg

Ritual site - holy well, Doonore South

Ritual site - holy well, Maumnahaltora

Burial, Emlagh (Corkaguiny By., Inch Ed)

Children's burial ground, An Luachair

Children's burial ground, Kilduff (Corkaguiny By.)

Burial ground, Rathmalode

Burial, Ballinagroun

Ritual site - holy well, Inch West (Corkaguiny By.)

Ritual site - holy well, Ballinclare

Ritual site - holy well, Gortacurraun

Children's burial ground, Gort Na Gcuileannach

Burial, Log Na Gcapall

Children's burial ground, An Gabhlán Ard

Burial ground, Arda Mór (Tc Cinn Aird)

Children's burial ground, Páirc An Teampaill

Ritual site - holy well, Baile An ístínigh

Ritual site - holy well, An Ghairfeanaigh

Children's burial ground, Baile An Tsagairt (Tc Na Gleannta)

Fourteen killed when troops fire on Dingle mob

Ritual site - holy well, An Fearann (Tc An Daingean)

Castle - tower house, An Daingean

Castle - tower house, An Gróbh

Burial, Baile An Mhuilinn (Corca Dhuibhne)

Castle - unclassified, Baile An Ghóilín

Burial, Baile An Ghóilín

Ritual site - holy well, Baile Mór Thiar

Burial, An Clochán (Tc Na Gleannta)