St. John's Well, or Tobar Eoin, is a small spring well in the backyard of a dwelling-house on The Mall in Dingle town. A modern concrete cover was provided for it but has now been broken up. A small pillar stone stands at the north-west side of the well, measuring 0.41 metres high, 0.2 metres wide and 0.11 metres thick. It bears an inscribed Latin cross on its north face. The shaft of the cross terminates at base with a down-turned arc and the arms have expanded terminals. The initials FD have been carved beneath the cross in fairly recent times. Rounds were formerly made at the well on the 24th of June. An ogham stone was apparently discovered in an adjacent wall and removed to near the railway station, but nothing more is known of it. Ó Danachair, writing in 1960, was informed that it was the cross-slab itself that bore the ogham inscription, but there are no traces of any scores on the stone. The well was visited as a holy well up to about 1900. In making the rounds, 5 paters and 5 aves were said kneeling at the well, after which one rosary was said while making three circuits of the well, and a prayer to the patron was said kneeling at the well. For the full ritual this was repeated nine times. Pebbles were used to count the rounds. The well cured many ailments. Rags were hung on a thorn tree, now gone. A legend tells that water was taken from the well and set to boil, but it could not be heated. A trout was found in it, and the water and the trout were returned to the well.

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As you come through Dingle in Kerry, you're near Standbally, where one of the darkest episodes of the Black Earl's raid took place in 1580. The Earl of Ormond, Lord Governor of Munster, had divided his forces at Tralee and marched west toward Dingle through Slieve Mish. His English soldiers slaughtered every man, woman and child they met along the way. At Standbally, they tossed children from pike to pike for sport, then stabbed the feeble mothers to death. Father Dominick O'Daly wrote that they were "cooling their impious thirst with the blood of Catholics." Ormond had marched west to oppose the Spaniards at Fort del Ore in Smerwick Harbour, who carried a Pope's banner, and also to capture the 15th Earl of Desmond, a Catholic suspected of favouring his cousins in rebellion against the British crown. Ormond wanted Desmond's confiscated estates. Some later dismissed O'Daly's account because he was a supporter of the Desmonds. But the commander's own letters to Queen Elizabeth promised, if God gave them bread, they doubted not but to succeed on the tears of widows and the crying orphans they had caused.

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Somewhere around here, in 1793, thousands of armed insurgents came into Dingle, and fourteen of them died when soldiers fired on the crowd. A fortnight before St John's day, the twenty-fourth of June, they proclaimed at their chapels and posted notices in all public places that they would meet in great numbers at Dingle and carry all their plans into execution. Mr Mullins got seventy soldiers from Limerick, who marched into Dingle the day before the intended meeting. 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 barracks with the troops until three o'clock, though the insurgents were two hours in possession of the town. 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. Having ordered the troops to fire, they killed fourteen of the insurgents and wounded many. The crowd dispersed and fled, not stopping until they arrived at cliffs over the sea ten miles off, and they would not return until they had made peace with the magistrates. Most of them gave information against one another, and swore that their intention was to have killed all the Protestant gentlemen and confiscated their estates. The plot proved general in Kerry and extended to Limerick, with persons stationed at Tralee and Tarbert ready to convey news of the attack, so that all inhabitants might have risen at the same moment. The punishment kept Kerry peaceful afterwards; though organized in 1797, no outrages were committed but in one place.

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Cill Na Gcléireach is a deserted burial ground, not marked on the Ordnance Survey maps but recorded in the OS name books. It lay in the south-west corner of the townland, close to the sea-shore. Human bones had often been uncovered there, and graves and bones have also been uncovered in more recent times, according to local information. A church, from which the townland takes its name, is locally reputed to stand near the sea-shore and may be associated with the burial ground.

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A children's burial ground and church site, Baile An Tsagairt, crowns the summit of a low but prominent hillock between Dingle Harbour and Trabeg. The enclosure is circular, measuring 30.7 metres north to south and 29.5 metres east to west. A church once stood within it, shown on the OS maps, but nothing more is known about it and no visible trace survives. Children were still being interred in this burial ground in the mid-19th century. The enclosure is bounded by a low earthen bank faced externally by a drystone wall. The bank rises a maximum of 1 metre above the interior, and the wall stands 1.45 metres high above a shallow fosse that encircles it. The fosse is about 1 metre wide and no more than 0.3 metres deep. There is no entrance through the wall; access is by means of two stiles, at north and south-west. The interior is raised above the external ground level, and the central area is raised again above the edges, giving the impression of a shallow internal fosse. A low cairn of stones, including much quartz, lies about 13 metres to the east of the enclosure. "Other tombs with great unshapen stones half buried" lay a little to the east of this again. Apart from ogham stones placed in recent times, the interior is occupied by a confusion of low mounds and low upright grave markers. It seems certain that the site was originally enclosed by an earthen bank and fosse, and that the wall was added sometime between the 1840s and the 1890s.

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An Ghairfeanaigh in Kerry is the site of a holy well, known both as Toberaroon, the well of the secret, and Tobar Ghobnait. The field where the well stood has been reclaimed and the spring is no longer evident. People were still visiting it on Easter Sunday until at least 1960. A more recent inspection described the site as, in the words of the source, "in a dense willow copse, is a small clear spring flowing out into the stream." Photographs held by the National Folklore Collection in UCD and by Amanda Clarke document what remains.

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Tobermartin, or Tobar Mártain, in Baile an Ístínigh, Kerry, is a holy well marked now by a waterlogged hollow in a marshy field. Rounds were made at the well on Easter Sunday and on St. Martin's Day, the 11th of November. There is a tradition that a pattern was held in former times, with games and dancing.

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As you pass through Lispole, about 200 yards north of the railway station stands the ancient Church of St. Martin. It sits within an extremely large rath, measuring about 50 yards in diameter. It is a rare thing to find the ruins of a church within a rath, though there are some other examples. The Ordnance map marks this enclosure as a churchyard, but when the writer inquired in the neighbourhood, those asked said they never heard of it being so used, nor could any sign of graves be found. The church itself stands rather towards the eastern end of the enclosure. The whole barony of Corcaguinny affords a field in which the searcher for antiquities, many of a prehistoric class, can find abundant opportunities for gratifying his tastes, and several objects of antiquarian interest are to be seen in the neighbourhood of Lispole station on the Dingle Railway.

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This is a children's burial ground at Páirc An Teampaill in Kerry, known as Calluragh burial ground and St. Martin's Church, or Teampall Mártain, or An Teampall Liath. It lies on the floor of the valley that separates the central mountain range from the Sea Hill ridge, on slightly elevated ground with an extensive outlook. Within the large oval earthen-banked enclosure are the foundations of 3 or 4 rectangular house sites and a possible souterrain. The ruins of Templemartin church stand in the eastern sector. Children were interred at this site until the early part of the 20th century, but no graves or gravemarkers are now visible. The enclosure measures 54.2 metres north to south and 71 metres east to west internally. The enclosing bank rises to a maximum height of 1.4 metres internally and 2.4 metres externally. In the south-east quadrant, the bank has been removed and replaced by a stone wall. A slight depression in that area may mark the line of this wall rather than an earlier fosse. Access to the interior is provided by gaps at south-south-east, north-west, and east-north-east, the latter having been recently created or widened.

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A children's burial ground at Gort na gCuileannach in Kerry, though the ground itself is a ringfort, known locally as a fort. It was marked on the first edition of the Ordnance Survey map as a circular ring of dots, and in 1853 a man named Hitchcock identified it as a rath. The field where it stands is called Páirc an Leasa. A cross-inscribed ogham stone once served as a lintel over the doorway of a D-shaped clochaun that stood inside the enclosure. Hitchcock removed that stone and presented it to the Royal Irish Academy, along with a quernstone also found at the site. The ogham stone is now kept in the National Museum of Ireland. The site has been badly damaged. It was used as a quarry for road metal. The eastern half is now a shapeless group of pits and mounds, though a curving bank of earth and stone can still be traced around the western half. The features cover an area measuring 23.5 metres north to south and 23 metres east to west. In 1848 Windele was told locally that the site had been used as a burial ground for children, but not within living memory. Some quartz stones scattered about the site today could have been brought in to mark those burials.

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A holy well, Toberreendoney, also called Tobar Rí an Domhnaigh, the Well of the King of Sunday. It is a spring well set in a rock cavity on the east side of a stream that forms the boundary between the townlands of Gortacurraun and Farrannacarriga. A small cross-inscribed stone sits in a crevice a little upstream of the well. Its south face bears a simple Latin cross with T-bar terminals to shaft and arms. In 1960, Ó Danachair recorded the well as a spring in the side of a deep gully, much overgrown with fuchsia, with no devotions at that time. The Ordnance Survey name books had noted that "the inhabitants give rounds here generally on Sunday morning." The record was revised by Caimin O'Brien and uploaded on 25 April 2022.

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Recorded in 1942, Tobar na Croise is a holy well and cross-inscribed slab at the junction of the townlands of Ballinclare, Farrannacarriga and Gurteen in Kerry. A stone stands over the site of the well, which is now dry. The stone measures 0.88 metres high and 0.31 metres wide, and its east face bears a plain Latin cross in relief. The ITA survey noted that the eastern stone holds many small crosses carved by pilgrims, and that the well measured 6 feet by 3 feet and was protected with flagstones. Pilgrimages were once made to this place as a penitential station. Ó Danachair, writing in 1960, recorded that the pilgrimage was still carried out on Saint John's Day, Midsummer, though not by as many as formerly. The pilgrim recited a rosary on the way to the well, then made nine circuits of the well, saying a pater and ave during each circuit. After that, the pilgrim went to a place on the edge of a cliff, about 600 yards to the south west of the well, called Bun an Turais, and said prayers there. One record gives the turas as held on the 27th of August.

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As you come through Anascaul, the road is not far from a precipice that holds a lake with a dark name. Pedlar's Lake. The story goes that a wanderer had left his home and the girl he loved in Annascaul. One dark winter evening he came back, disguised as a pedlar. He was trying to make his way over the mountains from Mahanaboe to Annascaul when he fell in with two brothers. They led him to the vicinity of this dark place, robbed him, and threw him into the lough. The robbers then went over the hills to Annascaul. There they showed part of their spoil to the girl the pedlar was engaged to, not knowing who she was. She recognised a broken sixpence as a love token. Inquiries were made. The pedlar's body was found and buried at Killiney. His sweetheart followed him to the grave a year later. The men who murdered him escaped. The ruins near the precipice bring back the memory of the crime. From the bend of the road at Pedlar's Lake you can see the Cloghane Valley, stretching from Connor Hill to Brandon, with the Owenmore or Cloghane River flowing through it. At the head of the glen are the Black Lake, Lough Gal or the White Lake, and Lough Clogharee. Far in the recess of Brandon Mountain is Lough Cruttia. A few yards on the Dingle side of the gorge, a trickling stream flows down the rock. The water is said to be the best in Kerry.

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Coming up through Anascaul. In 1584, an inquisition listed lands in this district forfeited by Maurice Hussey of Gortenkorrane, including Ballintarremont of 80 acres, Brackloon of 20 acres, and Ardrynane. The village of Anascaul corresponds to Ardrynane. Redcliff House was later built by S. M. Hickson on Brackloon.

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This is a holy well site at Inch West in Kerry, known as Tobar na Croise, the Well of the Cross. The well itself appears to have been filled in or diverted, but a cross-slab that stood over it is still in place. The stone is 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, forming a trifid motif. A pilgrimage called Turas na Duimhche was carried out at the well on St. John's Day, Midsummer, until at least 1960. The pilgrim recited a rosary on the way to the well, then made nine circuits of it, saying a pater and ave during each circuit. After that the pilgrim went to a place on the edge of the sea-cliff about 600 metres to the south-east, called Bun an Turais, and said 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. The 1842 map records the name Turrasnadiha Well. By 1960 fewer people were making the pilgrimage than before, but it was still being carried out.

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A burial site at Ballinagroun in Kerry. Two upright stones stand in waste ground behind a house, north of Castlemaine Harbour. They are close together, less than a metre apart. One stone rises about six tenths of a metre. Local tradition says they mark the graves of two soldiers.

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This is the burial ground at Killeenagh in Kerry. The townland takes its name from this ground. It lies on the west bank of a small stream that forms the townland boundary. The ground is an irregular oval, defined by the stream along its east side and by a low natural scarp along its west side, where the land outside stands higher than the burial ground itself. It measures about 62 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west. Inside, the only features visible are 2 grass-grown mounds of stone and a number of low uprights, up to 0.9 metres high, forming a rough zig-zag line about 4 metres long. It is not known what these represent. About 50 metres to the north-west stand 4 low uprights, up to 0.45 metres high, which may be grave-markers. Digging around these revealed what appeared to be empty graves, according to local information.

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Calluragh Grave Yard, or An Cheallúnach, is a children's burial ground near the east bank of a small river, roughly 300 metres from the north shore of Castlemaine Harbour. It is a stony rectangular platform, 12.1 metres east to west, 13 metres north to south, rising no more than 0.4 metres. Some graves were marked by low upright stones averaging 0.25 metres in height. The site, or the field around it, is known as An Teampaillín.

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An unclassified castle site, Castledrum, stands in the townland of Castledrum in the parish of Kilgarrylander in Kerry, its Irish name Caisleán na Dromann meaning castle of the ridge. Nothing survives above ground; the site lies in pasture on a south-east facing slope overlooking the River Groin. In 2000 no surface remains could be seen, and stone from the castle had been built into walls, gate posts and house pillars throughout the townland. The castle was said to have been erected by the Moriartys. In 1586 a royal pardon was granted to Donell m'Teig M'Donoghe of Castledrom. Two years later Queen Elizabeth granted Donell O Moriertie and Owen O Moriertie, sons of Donell O Moriertie, a lease including a rent of 15 pounds and 1 shilling called strahenmarte, which their father had paid to the traitor Gerald, late earl of Desmond. Donell the father held the castle with 4 ploughlands, Killemardusak with 3, Ballegarveighe and Ballemaldwenick with 2, and 6 acres in Ambroselands. In 1601 a royal pardon was issued to Donell M'donell of Castledrome and Murtagh M'Donell, his son. The deposition of Arthur Blenerhasset in 1643 stated that Donell mc Moriertagh of Castle-drum, on or about 2 February 1641, came with colours flying in a rebellious and hostile manner to besiege the town and castle of Tralee. The deposition of Edward Vauclier stated that Captain Donnell mc Moriarthe of Castle Drum had possessed himself of his best house in Tralee and other tenements. Stephen Love's deposition named Donogh McCormack, son of Donnell mcMortagh of Castledrum, as taking part in the siege. The castle was demolished in the wars of 1641. By 1841 nothing remained but a heap of rubbish overgrown with grass. Tradition says it was taken by Cromwell and given to one of the Moriartys.

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This is a children's burial ground in the townland of Ardcanaght, whose Irish name Aird Chánachta means hill of the Tribute. It lies in pasture on a south facing slope with good views of Cluain Hill, in the parish of Kilgarrylander, diocese of Ardfert, barony of Trughanacmy. A raised area with a central depression in the north-east corner of a field marks the site. The 1841 Ordnance Survey six-inch map annotated it as Killeen Old Burial Ground, showing a rectangular area transected at the east by a field boundary running north to south. An area of uncultivated land in that corner was later visible on satellite imagery. Two ogham stones were discovered inside this burial ground by the Tralee Field Club. They were removed and placed beside a standing stone decorated with rock art, known as the Ardcanaght Stone, which stands in a field to the north.

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You are coming through Castlemaine, in Kerry. In November 1599, this was the site of a stubborn siege that finally ended in surrender. The garrison had held out for thirteen months under close blockade, with almost no food and no ammunition. The manuscript history says the Ward survived on their own shifts, and that cost John Middleton, a fine clerk, his life, for want of his natural diet. Every hope of relief was gone. Not a word of encouragement reached the defenders. There remained absolutely not a day's rations. On the 4th of November the Commandant called a parley, and FitzThomas came forward. The Commandant put on a bold air and hazarded the claim that they still had provisions for six months. FitzThomas attached little credence to that, but he was ready to take the place if he and his men were allowed their liberty and their lives. He granted them both. The soldiers got safe conduct to Cork. FitzThomas took possession of the castle and installed his own Ward. He elected Thomas Oge Fitzgerald of Ardnagragh as Constable, and charged him with the safe keeping of the fortress. Thomas Oge made declaration he would be true to his charge. The loss of Castlemaine caused vexation at the English Court, and Sir Warham St. Leger was charged with this misfortune. A letter from Justice Carey to Cecil in November 1599 says, "Castlemaine, being Her Majesty's is lost," with a marginal note that St. Leger had the keeping of it. St. Leger wrote to the Privy Council that he did what was possible to relieve the place, that he was bound by his Commission to remain in Cork, and concluded, "For the loss of the house I humly confess that it is somewhat dishonourable, but whensoever it pleaseth Her Majesty to recover Kerry and these countries that house will soon be had." Never since the coming of Strongbow had the English interest stood in direr peril than at that hour.

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As you come through Castlemaine, this is where Castle Magne stood, the fortress Sir William Herbert wanted levelled in 1587 and 1588. Herbert argued the castle could not be scaled or mined from below, and could only be battered at excessive and infinite cost. He warned of how easily the place had been surprised when Desmond escaped from Dublin, and asked whether the same could happen again if Desmond's son escaped from the Tower. His deepest concern was the garrison. The Constable, a man called Spring, held the castle for life and was married to the Earl of Desmond's foster-sister. The Vice-Constable was an Irishman married to another of the Earl's foster-sisters, and many of the ward were Irishmen. Herbert asked why anyone would think the castle would not be handed to the Earl's son if he escaped. It might be said that Spring was an Englishman, but Herbert answered that Spring's brother, also an Englishman, had been convicted by the Earl of Ormond of giving food and powder to Desmond, and had proved treacherous. Herbert declared the castle chargeable, unprofitable, perilous, and odious, and called for it to be razed. Great charges would be saved, great peril prevented, the people gratified, and God pleased. A year before these letters, in 1587, Elizabeth had already sent an order to the Privy Council in Dublin to disband the ward at Castle Magne and give the castle to Sir Valentine Browne and his heirs for ever, with a perpetuity of £40 by the year. That order was never executed.

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Coming up through Milltown, near Dingle, there are standing stones called the Gates of Glory. The word Gallauns is the older name for them. They were likely first put up as landmarks. At a later time they took on another purpose for the town court. People who owed debts or were answerable to the court for certain acts were considered outside its jurisdiction once they got beyond those stones. Orders could be obtained against deceased persons who owed money, and the body arrested and held without burial up to but not exceeding nine days, unless some friend paid the debt. But if the corpse escaped beyond the Gates of Glory, the court could not follow it. Those in the funeral were allowed to stone the bailiff. That is how the stones came to be called the Gates of Glory.

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As you come through Milltown, a sleepy little market-town in Kerry, the remains of an old abbey called Kilcolman can be seen. The name Kilcolman means the Church of Saint Colman. The abbey was formerly called the Priory of Kylla. Sir William Godfrey's residence is also at Milltown. This Kilcolman Abbey must not be confused with another Kilcolman, the one where the poet Spenser dwelt and dreamed the poem of the Faery Queen. That home was in the county of Cork, not far from Buttevant. This Kilcolman Abbey is not very remarkable. It is said to have been founded by Geoffrey de Marisco, who came over with Henry II in 1172. De Marisco also built Castle Island Castle, and founded a community of Knights Hospitallers in the County Limerick. From that fact the place called Hospital takes its name. The route then leads on to Killorglin, a small country town pleasantly situated on the banks of the Laune, which there broadens out into a wide estuary. A bit of the old castle, said to have been founded by the Knights Templars, still stands near the west end of the fine stone bridge that spans the river. The newly built Roman Catholic church, a conspicuous object on the hill, is well worth visiting.

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Up ahead is Killorglin in Kerry, where every August the town holds Puck Fair. The heart of it is a magnificent he-goat, the puc himself, raised on a platform 20 feet high and held by a chain from each horn, his face turned down the road. He stays up there for three days, feeding on a few cabbages, presiding over the fair below. The narrator found him in the three-cornered space in the middle of the town, after walking past the green where fresh meat sold for three pence a pound, past rough shooting galleries and women selling trifles, past the chapel where a little crowd had just carried in a man killed or badly wounded by a fall from a horse. The bridge of the river and the main slope of the town were full of people who had come for amusement only, walking up and down, looking at each other, meeting cousins and friends. As the narrator puts it, a crowd is as exciting as champagne to these lonely people, who live in long glens among the mountains.

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As you pass through Killorglin in Kerry, this town holds the site of a castle that was burned and leveled in the years after 1261. The Fitzgeralds were so crushed by their defeat at Callan that the MacCarthys had it all their own way for many years afterwards. Dr. Hanmer gave a graphic account. He wrote that the Carties played the divils in Desmond, where they burned, spoiled, preyed, and slew many an innocent. He said they became so strong that for the space of twelve years the Desmond durst not put plow in ground in his own country. The Irish chieftains of South Munster burned and leveled the castles of Dun-Mac-Toman, Duninsi, Dunnagall, Cuandore, Dundeady, Dunnalong, Macroom, Muirgioll, Dunnamark, Dunloe, Killorglin, and the greater part of the castles of Hy Conaill Gabhra, and killed their English warders. The Fitzgeralds were utterly disabled, and the power of the MacCarthys was in the ascendant. It would have continued longer, but Hanmer wrote that at length, through the operation of Satan, a bane of discord was thrown between the Carties and the Odriscoles, the O'Donovans, MacDonagh, MacMahonna, MacSwines, and the inhabitants of Muscrie. By their cruel dissension they weakened themselves on all sides, so that the Desmond, in the end, overcame and over-topped them all.

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You are coming into Killorglin in Kerry. In 1803 the 1st Muskerry Cavalry rode out from Killarney, twenty miles to the south-east, to a cave near this town. They had word of a depot of upwards of 300 stands of arms hidden there. They reached the spot at daybreak, found the cave, but the arms were already gone. Many of the men rode back to Killarney that night and came home the next day through Glanflesk.

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As you pass through Killorglin in Kerry, when Sir Charles Wilmot planted garrisons in Kerry, he had the castle burned. It belonged to Master Jenkin Conway, an undertaker. Wilmot burned it because he feared Conway might plant himself there.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 130 · source

You are coming into Killorglin, a market town in Kerry. The book that describes it calls it a place of no great importance, but says it shows signs of great misery intermixed with prosperous commerce. The road here has kept Castlemaine Harbour in sight for about 5 miles. This is where travellers branch off. Those heading to Tralee or Dingle start that journey from here, and a public car carries passengers further west. The road back to Killarney skirts the river Laune and passes underneath the Reeks. It leaves to the right the pathway to Carran Tuel and the entrance to the Gap of Dunloe before conducting into Killarney. The town stands 10 miles from Killarney. From here the route runs on toward the Shannon, between Dingle Bay and Tralee Bay. The author says his space is exhausted and he must pass rapidly over what remains. A promontory stretches out into the Atlantic, containing Ventry Bay, Smerwick Harbour, Brandon Bay, and a number of lesser harbours, each of them beautiful. The sea, rocks, cliffs, and islands along the coast are, in the author's words, "but poorly pictured by the term sublime."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 105 · source

The town of Glenbeigh sits along this road in Kerry. In 1652, O'Sullivan had his little army stationed here. Late one afternoon he learned that English ships, with a fair wind, were making sail towards the Skelligs. He immediately divided his party into two divisions. One, headed by himself, proceeded towards the harbour of Poulnanurragh. The other, comprising four companies under Captain Owen O'Sullivan of Fermoyle, an experienced officer and commander of a regiment, marched towards Ballinskelligs. The ships carrying the invading troops came to anchor in that harbour early that night. They sent out three companies of about 160 men, who surprised most of the inhabitants before day, took all the booty, and drove off all the cattle they could find to the banks of the harbour. By then Captain O'Sullivan had arrived near where the prey was collected. Observing the English resting after collecting their booty, and just preparing to take the cattle on board, O'Sullivan divided his four companies into four parties. He ordered Captain John Brennan, with his company, to take advantage of a small valley eastwards of Ballinskelligs and attack the enemy. He ordered another company under Lieutenant MacSwiney to proceed along another valley westwards with the same direction. He himself, with a young captain, a namesake of his, the head of the family of Cossanalossy, and two companies, marched towards the English. The English sounded their trumpets and made other demonstrations of joy at seeing them approach. They fixed themselves behind a low ditch surrounding a small field on the brink of the sea. O'Sullivan ordered what small arms he had to be discharged as soon as within musket-shot, and not to wait for charging again, but to rush on and engage with pikes and broad-swords. The Irish made the first fire, which wounded only a few. The English had the patience not to fire even when their opponents came on.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 151 · source

The town of Glenbeigh in Kerry saw evictions in 1887, or thereabouts. General Buller, who was then in Ireland, suggested that the tenants' houses be destroyed by fire, and the agent carried it out. Edward Harrington, Member of Parliament, and Mr. Sheehan, Member of Parliament, played a prominent part in opposing the carrying out of those evictions.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Irish historical allusions, curious customs and superstitions, County of Kerry, Corkaguiny (1916), Foley, Patrick, Internet Archive irishhistoricala00fole, Chapter 29 · source

As you come through Glenbeigh in Kerry, this is where a mounted constable named William Duggan met his trouble in February 1867. He was riding on the night of the 13th, carrying official despatches, when a large body of insurgents called on him near the town to stop and hand over his documents. He refused. He pressed on with his journey, and they fired at him. He was severely wounded and disabled.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society (1892), Cork Historical and Archaeological Society, Internet Archive journalofcorkhisv21896cork, Chapter 154 · source

Somewhere close to Curra, Donal Mor MacCarthy died in 1205. His last recorded exploit was in 1203, when the Four Masters state "a victory was gained by Donal the son of MacCarthy and the people of Desmond over the English, 160 persons or more being slain in the conflict." Monsieur Laine says that "after a glorious reign of twenty years" he died at Curra in 1205. With his death we may cease to speak of the chieftains of the MacCarthy sept as Kings of Desmond. The Irish Annals continue for some generations longer to style them Kings and Princes of Desmond, but their kingdom had really passed away from them. Henceforth they are designated by their title of MacCarthy Mor.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 78 · source

Somewhere around here ran the Farranfore to Valentia Harbour line, a single-track broad gauge railway that stretched 39.5 miles along the southern shore of Dingle Bay. It ran from 1892 to 1960 and was the most westerly railway in Europe.

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

This is a children's burial ground at Kells, standing above a low cliff on the rocky shore of Kells Bay, with an outlook north across Dingle Bay. The ground is triangular, open to the sea at the north-east, and bounded by drystone walls 36 metres long on the west and 23.5 metres on the south. About 200 uninscribed grave-markers stand inside, set in at least 20 parallel rows running north-east to south-west. A small marble slab marks a recent cremation burial. After storms in 1989, two parallel drystone walls became exposed in section on the seaward side, 3.2 metres apart, well-faced with a rubble core, averaging .9 metres wide. The west wall stands up to 1.2 metres high. These walls may be the structure noted as an "old building near a grave" in the Ordnance Survey name books, Killinane, 39. There is a tradition of rounds being performed at the site on Good Fridays, and the bodies of several sailors were reputedly buried at this place during both World Wars.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE062-002---- · source

Somewhere close to Lisbane is where the McCarthy Mór was inaugurated. The ceremony was presided over by the O'Sullivan Mór and the O'Donoghue Mór. Windele records that it took place at Lisban-na-Cahir in Kerry. There is no other place of that name in Kerry, so it is doubtless this Lisbane, in the parish of Killinane, about 1.5 miles south-west of Kells station. The O'Sullivan Mór, it appears, usually presided at meetings of the Munster Chiefs, even when the McCarthy Mór was present.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 60 · source

A wedge tomb at Ballynahow More in Kerry, standing on a level shoulder of rough mountain pasture on the lower south-facing slope of Knocknadobar, with a commanding view west over the estuary of the Ferta river. The tomb is quite well-preserved. It consists of a gallery, open at both ends, with one cap-stone still in situ. It is orientated east-north-east to west-south-west, and its sides are reinforced by low buttress-stones set immediately outside. Traces of a low cairn are discernible, particularly on the south side. In the 1930s a separate rear chamber was noted at its east end. The gallery is about 4 metres long. Its north side is composed of three stones ranging in height from .7 metres to .38 metres. Four slabs represent the south side, the tallest standing .77 metres high at the west, the remainder generally decreasing in height towards the rear of the gallery at the east. The gallery's width decreases from 1.5 metres at the west to just under 1 metre at the east end. Lines of buttress-stones sit immediately against the side-stones. Four low orthostats occur on the north side, averaging .3 metres high and .35 metres wide. Eight similar slabs are visible on the south side, some embedded in what appears to be cairn material. The cap-stone, located towards the east end, rests directly on pad-stones and its ends oversail the sides of the chamber. It is irregularly shaped, measuring 2.9 metres by 1.4 metres and .15 metres in average thickness, with a .35 metres thick deposit of peaty material on its upper surface. Four other possible roof-stones lie in the immediate vicinity, one within the gallery. These may have been displaced when the tomb was partially dismantled, early in the twentieth century, to free a trapped farm animal.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE070-016---- · source

Somewhere close to Cloghane, a pattern is held on the last Sunday of July each year. The old people of the parish believe it began in honour of a pagan chieftain called Crom Duff, meaning Crom of the Heap of Stones, one of the deities of the Irish Druids. The last Sunday in summer is called Black Crom, held sacred to Saint Patrick as the anniversary of the destruction of this class of idols and others of a like nature. Cromleacs, composed of huge stones chosen by the ancient Druids, are found in the parish of Ballyduff, and other evidence in the neighbourhood shows the district was the scene of ancient ceremonies. Tradition gives credit to a pagan chieftain for building the old church whose remains stand at the east end of the dismantled Protestant church in Cloghane burial ground. The present structure, however, was not erected for many centuries after paganism was overthrown.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Irish historical allusions, curious customs and superstitions, County of Kerry, Corkaguiny (1916), Foley, Patrick, Internet Archive irishhistoricala00fole, Chapter 23 · source

Somewhere close to Strandsend, there are the ruins of a small castle at Ventry. It shared in the general blowing up of Irish fortresses after 1641. Travellers passing through on the way to Sybil Head can still see what remains of it.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 107 · source

As you come through Cahirciveen in Kerry, there is a burial ground nearby that once held two pillar stones standing close together, both bearing Ogham inscriptions. Over forty years ago, they were both removed and sent to Dublin by the then principal of the Christian Brothers' establishment. The day after their removal, several cattle on the lands died mysteriously. The outcry from neighbouring farmers was so great that one of the stones was brought back and restored to its original site, but upside down. That accounts for the cross being half buried in the ground.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 71 · source

Coming up through Cahirciveen, the most westerly town in the British Isles. Its chief interest is its connection with Daniel O'Connell, the Liberator, who spent his childhood at Carhan House close by, now in ruins. The town is built at the base of the Bentee, which rises to 1,245 feet, and consists mainly of a long street bordering the main road. The only public building of note is the O'Connell Memorial Church. There is also a white building in Scotch Baronial style, the Police Barracks, which shows up prominently as you cross the estuary. From near that spot a body of insurgents marched towards Killarney during the Fenian rising of 1867. The town makes a good centre for sportsmen, and the ordinary tourist will find plenty to occupy him in the walks and drives through the little known scenery of this rugged western promontory. You can make your headquarters here or at Valentia Island. Among the interesting spots in the neighbourhood are the ruins of Ballycarberry Castle, one of the seats of the McCarthy-More, of which the O'Connells were the hereditary constables. It is near Doulus Head, a promontory to the north-west, separated from the town by the mouth of the river. Near the castle is an ancient circular fort, similar to Staigue Fort but not so perfect. The interior of one of the caves beneath Doulus Head is very lofty, and bears some resemblance to that of a cathedral. On Church Island, in Valentia Harbour, are the remains of an early monastery, an oratory, and some beehive cells.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Pictorial and descriptive guide to the Lakes of Killarney, Glengariff, and south-west Ireland, including a guide to Cork. (1906), Ward, Lock and Company, ltd, Internet Archive pictorialdescrip00ward_0, Chapter 62 · source

This is a slablined holy well, known as Tobernacrohaneeve or Tobar na Croiche Naofa, on the south side of West Main Street in Cahersiveen. It stands between two houses and is covered by a relatively modern structure with an iron cross on top. A modern pump stands in front of the well. The Ordnance Survey name books recorded that a pattern was formerly held at the well on the 14th of September, and that rounds were also performed there on Saturday evenings and Sunday mornings.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE079-038---- · source

Seven miles of incline down the north side of the Ferta Valley bring you to Cahirciveen. Near the railway station stands an imposing edifice that brings to mind a Border keep. That is the barrack of the Royal Irish Constabulary, built after the Fenian days of 1867. The town is dominated by a great church standing high, with its attendant convent. It was built by donations of Catholic people throughout the world to perpetuate the memory of the Liberator, Daniel O'Connell, whose efforts secured Catholic emancipation. The great church, though unfinished, is well worth a visit. In the convent school close to the church, the Sisters carry on beautiful knitting and lace-work, and examples can be seen there.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry (1907), Crane, Charles Paston, 1857-, Internet Archive kerry00cran, Chapter 68 · source

The barony of Iveragh in Kerry is where Daniel O'Sullivan More retreated after the defeat of Count Taafe's army, having lost a good many of his regiment. He marched to Iveragh, Dunkerron, and Glanerought, expecting by the bad passes and roads leading there that he would hold those districts until further supplied and relieved. Two colonels under him, seeing no further prospect of success, declined that service and went to France. The Earl of Inchiquin, having a tenderness and concern for O'Sullivan More, sent to him, desiring him to submit, and that he would use his best endeavours with the government to get him good conditions. O'Sullivan, after returning his lordship thanks for his good inclinations, replied that if he had his estates, and those of such of his countrymen who were with him, granted to him and them, he would submit, but not otherwise. The negotiation was not approved of. Commands were issued that O'Sullivan's territory should be invaded by land and sea, and a strong party of effective men was embarked on board of three or four ships to bring him speedily to submission. Before the battle that led to this retreat, a man said to have the gift of prophecy was brought to the Earl of Inchiquin, who asked who would gain the victory the following day. The prophet declared the Irish would maintain the field with credit, but the English would be totally defeated. The earl answered that he was right, for the earl was an Irishman, an O'Brien, and a Milesian, but Count Taafe, commanding the Irish, was English by extraction. The event was as the earl had interpreted: Taafe and his army, after a desperate struggle, were totally defeated.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 150 · source

As you travel through the barony of Iveragh in Kerry, you are passing through country that once held vast forests. From 1652 to 1660, the vales of Dunkerron and Iveragh rang with the continual fall of giant oaks. Sir William Petty, who held his principal estates here in Kerry, felled the woods for profit. Spain and France were searching the world for pipe-staves, and English dockyards had steady demand for ship-knees, and Sir William knew exactly where there was the best market for everything.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from 1641 [microform] : reply to the falsification of history by James Anthony Froude, entitled The English in Ireland (1870), Mitchel, John, 1815-1875, Internet Archive 3766992, Chapter 26 · source

You're passing through Iveragh now, in Kerry, and in 1178 this was where people ran. There was a great war between the O'Briens and the MacCarthys. They desolated the entire country from Limerick to Cork, and from the plain of Derrymore to Brandon Hill. The greater part of the race of Eoghan fled to the woods of Ivahagh, south of the River Lee. Others went to Kerry and Thomond. The Hy-Conaill Gabhra and the Hy-Donovan fled southwards to the Mangerton Mountains. This seems to have been the first considerable migration westwards of the MacCarthys. It was probably about this time that they settled in the lake district about Killarney, and also in the south-western portion of County Cork.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry Archaeological Magazine (Volume I) (1908), Kerry Archaeological Association, Internet Archive kerryarchaeologicalmagazine, Chapter 77 · source

Somewhere around here is the wood of Easgah, close to Derreen. In 1652 or 1653, after an earlier slaughter, poor inhabitants of Ballybeg had withdrawn to Iveragh and Bordonine. They left sowings behind, and the next harvest they came back to cut and carry them away. They brought their families, posting sentinels by day, but at night they sheltered in the adjoining woods. The garrison at Nedeen discovered this. A party was sent out in boats by night, most of them from Captain Purefoy's company. They surprised the families in the wood. None were spared except a few women and children, and some of them, in the words of the source, were "most inhumanely dealt with." The next day, as a sucking babe was about to be thrown from a boat into the waves, the mother grieved at the sight. Her breast was cut off with a hanger. Notwithstanding this, provisions were so wanting that a number of active young men tried again to carry off the sowings. They lodged at night in the woods and coppices of Dunquinally and Ballybeg, where they were likewise surprised. Some young unmarried men who went to the coppices of a small inch were all killed. That place has been called Inchhanoganagh ever since, signifying, in the words of the source, "the inch where the young men were slain."

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Sketches in Ireland: Descriptive of Interesting Portions of the Counties of Donegal, Cork, and Kerry (1839), Caesar Otway, Internet Archive sketchesinirela00otwagoog, Chapter 153 · source

Killoluaig children's burial ground is a raised, roughly oval area, 12 metres north to south and 16 metres east to west, in low-lying pasture between Knocknaskereighta mountain and Portmagee Channel. A modern field bank defines the east side. A 6 metres stretch of drystone facing at the north-west survives to a height of .95 metres and may be part of an original revetment. Up to 15 small uninscribed upright slabs cluster towards the centre. The Ordnance Survey name book records this site as a burial place for children and adult strangers.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE088-011001- · source

At Aghanboy in Kerry, a holy well sits on the shore where the Gougane river enters Portmagee Channel. It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey maps. A stone and concrete structure covers the well, topped by a modern cross-inscribed stone. Rounds were formerly made at the site in March and in the autumn, according to local information.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE088-052---- · source

A children's burial ground, Calluragh Burial Ground, on the lower north-facing slopes of Kilkeaveragh mountain, overlooking Portmagee Channel. The site is a rectangular enclosure, 30 metres east to west by 24 metres north to south, defined by a stony earthen bank standing up to 3 metres high at the north. A stretch of stone facing along the inside of the bank at the north may be modern. A gap 1.5 metres wide marks the entrance at the east. Inside, the south-west quadrant is raised above the rest. There stand the foundations of a small dry-stone oratory, 3.6 metres east to west by 2.72 metres north to south inside. Its corbelled walls rise about 1 metre and average 1.3 metres thick, built of large horizontally laid slabs. A doorway .75 metres wide opens in the west wall, and a large slab lies directly outside it, possibly a displaced lintel. Across the western portion of the enclosure, numerous uninscribed upright slabs stand in the ground, clustered around the oratory. The record describes these as presumably grave-markers, relating to the use of the site as a ceallúnach.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE087-044002- · source

A children's burial ground on a small island, Illaunloughan, lies in Portmagee Channel in Kerry, in the civil parish of Killemlagh and the barony of Iveragh. The island measures 26 metres north to south and 50 metres east to west, about 0.1 hectares in area. At certain low tides it can be reached on foot from the mainland. There is no historical documentation for the island, and the origin of its name is uncertain. Lochán may be the name of a saint associated with the island, a theory supported by the mention of two Lochans in the Martyrology of Oengus, written around AD 800. Alternatively the name may derive from the island of the chaff. Four seasons of archaeological work from 1992 to 1995 completed excavation of about 70 per cent of the island. The remains of a monastery survive, consisting of an oratory, a leacht, a gable-shrine, a hut site and a well. About fifty upright slabs occur on the island, particularly at its west side, where they tend to appear in regular rows. The island is noted in the Ordnance Survey Name Books as "a burial place for children and adult strangers." These slabs probably relate to such use. The island was used as a ceallúnach in more recent times. In contrast to the earlier adult burials, the infant skeletons were well preserved. These burials usually had simple uninscribed headstones, and many were placed in small boxes made from Scots Pine. Most of these later burials were placed towards the western side of the island. The monument is subject to a preservation order under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE087-036019- · source

In the early twentieth century, children were still being buried at this children's burial ground in Ceann Eich, Kerry. The ground lies in rough pasture overlooking the estuary of the Inny river. It is oval in plan, measuring 29 metres north to south and 34 metres east to west, defined on its east and south sides by a poorly preserved bank of earth and stone, 0.6 metres high and 3.5 metres wide. The overgrown interior slopes down to the south, where most of the grave-markers are concentrated. Many of those markers have fallen, but the ones still standing are aligned north to south. At the centre stands a leacht-type feature, built of coursed drystone masonry mixed with a large quantity of quartz stones, rectangular in outline and measuring 3.2 metres north to south and 2.45 metres east to west. An irregular mound of loose stones lies 1.2 metres to the south-east. Close to the edge, in the south-east quadrant, a large prostrate slab measures 1.6 metres by 0.4 metres by 0.35 metres thick.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE088-033---- · source

Known locally as a ceallúnach, this children's burial ground at An Mhuiríoch stands on sloping pasture overlooking the estuary of the Inny river. It is a subrectangular stony platform, 17 metres by 19 metres, rising no more than 0.4 metres. The surface is uneven, scattered with small boulders and some upright, uninscribed grave-markers. It does not appear on the Ordnance Survey maps, though the Ordnance Survey name book records the name. It was not used for burial within living memory, but two sailors are reputed to have been buried at the site 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), KE098-130---- · source

Somewhere around here, close to Waterville, four huge stones stand upright on a slight rise. They are the gallauns, the name given to upright stones like these. People say they belonged to the age of the Druids, or to the mystic age of the heroes of Erin. In later days the site marked a place where Mass was said. The four stones go by the name Tempul na Cuillah. The road leaves Waterville heading south through the village and crosses a bridge over the Currane River. A cross-road leads along the shores of Lough Currane into the hills at the head of the lake, where a footway goes over the heights to Staigue Fort. Continuing along the main coast route, the four stones come into view. Beyond them, the road bends and crosses a bridge over a little mountain streamlet, the Finglass, issuing from a dark Coom, at the far end of which a waterfall is seen in rainy weather. A legend attaching to this river tells of Curoi of Daire and Blanaid, the same legend given in the chapter on Dingle.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry (1907), Crane, Charles Paston, 1857-, Internet Archive kerry00cran, Chapter 62 · source

A possible castle, known locally as An Caislean, lies on a low rise of the lake bed near the south shore of Lough Currane in Kerry. The site is on Illauntinny, or Oileán na Tine, and is generally only visible when the lake level is low. It was presumably built on a small island or spit before the lake level rose, a rise noted by Smith in 1756. The remains are the foundations of a strong building, about 21 metres by 21 metres externally, preserved below the mean water level of the lake. The south-east and south-west sides survive best, standing to about 1 metre in height, built of coursed sandstone blocks, some up to 1.5 metres long, with a rubble core. A section of internal wall-face is visible at south-east, where the wall is about 2 metres thick. The north-east and north-west walls have collapsed and survive only as spreads of blocks and rubble. No mortar or timber is visible. About midway along the south-east side is a gap 2.85 metres wide, which may be an entrance, now largely blocked by collapse. The interior is filled with rubble to the tops of the surviving walls. Other subaqueous monuments are on record from Lough Currane.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE098-080---- · source

This is the children's burial ground at Baslickane, in Kerry. A burial area measuring 16 metres square fills the interior of the enclosure. It is marked out by a dense concentration of uninscribed grave-markers, each averaging 0.4 metres in height.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE098-049005- · source

A children's burial ground, Ardkearagh. People in the locality call it a ceallúnach. Unbaptised children were buried in this ground, and the practice continued up to the 1940s.

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A children's burial ground, An Lóthar, also called Kildreenagh or Cill Draighneach, sits in rough pasture on the lower western slopes of Farraniaragh mountain, overlooking Ballinskelligs Bay. A stone wall encloses the site, and within it stand an oratory, a leacht, three cross-inscribed slabs, a circular hut, and an area of burial. The enclosure measures 31 metres north to south and 26 metres east to west. Its wall is poorly preserved, standing up to 1.2 metres high on the outside and .9 metres on the inside, varying from 2.3 to 4 metres in width. A series of upright slabs flanks the wall's inner face at the north, and further uprights appear both inside and outside the enclosure. A modern field boundary follows its outline closely at the north. At the south-east there is a blocked entrance, 1.1 metres wide, with sides formed by upright slabs. Two opposing uprights at the north-west may represent a second entrance, though this is uncertain. A hut interrupts the wall's circuit on the west side. The interior slopes down to the west. A raised platform .9 metres high, measuring 13.5 metres north to south and 8 metres east to west, abuts the wall in the north-east quadrant, retained by large upright slabs, many of them now leaning outwards. Two steps flanked by opposing uprights set .8 metres apart lead up onto the platform. The oratory, the leacht, and the three cross-inscribed stones all stand on that platform.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from National Monuments Service, Sites and Monuments Record (CC-BY 4.0), KE106-007001- · source

A children's burial ground, in An Fearann Iarthach, Kerry. The place is known locally as a burial ground, though it may have begun as a stone fort or an early ecclesiastical site. It is roughly circular, enclosed by a stone wall that now stands in poor condition, best preserved at the north-west where coursed drystone masonry faces a rubble core. The wall reaches 1.4 metres high inside and runs about 2.2 metres wide. An entrance gap, 1.65 metres across, sits at the south-east, its south side marked by two slabs, one upright and one on edge. Against the inner wall at the south-west stand the poorly preserved foundations of a circular hut, measuring 7.7 metres north to south and 8.6 metres east to west. Nearby, at the north, what appears to be the lintelled opening of a blocked souterrain measures 0.85 metres by 0.45 metres. Three shapeless mounds and two rectangular ones occupy the northern half of the interior. They are sod-covered, built of large quantities of stone, upright slabs, and quartz, and may cover graves.

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A children's burial ground at An Fearann Iarthach in Kerry. It sits on sloping pasture on the south side of Farraniaragh mountain, overlooking Darrynane Harbour. The Ordnance Survey name book recorded it as a large fort and burial place for children. The enclosure is nearly circular, 24.4 metres by 23.4 metres inside a drystone wall 1.85 metres wide, with an entrance passage at south-west. Within the wall stand the foundations of two huts. The burial area fills the entire interior, scattered with small uninscribed upright slabs and quartz blocks arranged in north to south rows, averaging .3 metres high.

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In 1848, a site in Com An Tsleabhcháin in Kerry was known to Windele as Board'een, Bord Eoghain Fhinn, or Fingal's Table. It is a small wedge tomb, or cromlech, standing on a level platform on the upper slopes of the spur of Farraniaragh mountain. The tomb is largely collapsed. Two side-stones on the south side of its gallery remain, their upper edges sloping downwards to the east, with two small buttress or packing stones outside them. A single side-stone at the north lies prostrate. The roof-stone, now collapsed, measures 2.7 metres long. Other names for the site include The Table and Carraig Shíomais. It is unclear whether Cloch an Arruig and Clochán an Fhiolair are connected with the monument. Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin recorded the tomb in their 1982 survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland.

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Recorded in the late nineteenth century, Calluragh Burial Ground is an enclosed burial ground of roughly triangular plan overlooking Darrynane Bay to the south-west. It was still in use then for the burial of unbaptised children. The ground measures 23 metres north to south and 21.8 metres east to west, enclosed by a drystone wall poorly preserved. The wall is best seen at the north, where block-like slabs form inner and outer faces around a rubble core, 1.35 metres wide and only one or two courses high. Elsewhere later walling mostly obscures it. The overgrown interior holds a dense concentration of loose stone and boulders. Some low upright slabs stand in north to south rows, but most seem haphazardly placed.

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Built in the early seventeenth century by a branch of the O'Sullivans, known as the O'Sullivans of Formoyle and Ballycarna, Ballycarnahan Castle stands on a rocky knoll a short distance south of Caherdaniel village, overlooking Darrynane Bay to the south-west. It is a small tower house, a rectangular structure measuring 11 metres by 8.44 metres externally, rising to an average height of 5.1 metres from a battered base. The walls are coursed rubble set in gravel and lime mortar, with undressed sandstone quoins, and the north-east corner has been greatly undermined. Two storeys survive, though a third appears to have existed. Inside, a main chamber on each floor was separated by a cross-wall from a smaller chamber and the stairwell at the east end. The floors were of beam wall-plate construction, supported on corbels projecting from the north and south walls. The ground floor entrance is marked by a broad ragged gap in the east wall. Part of the doorway survives, rebated internally for a door with a preserved drawbar socket, and externally for a hinged iron grille. Three hinge housings for that grille survive in the north jamb. The entrance lobby likely featured a murder-hole, suggested by a rebate in the east wall of the first floor chamber directly above. The south chamber had a vaulted roof, its inner section surviving, lit by a lintelled loop in the east wall. The main ground floor chamber was lit by narrow loops with widely splayed ingoings in the north, south and west walls, most retaining pivot-holes and drawbar sockets for wooden shutters. A circular stair in the north-east angle connected the floors, a three-quarter turn ascent lit by two loops. A jews' harp was found in a gap in the east wall and is now held in KCM.

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A children's burial ground, Calluragh Burial Ground, in Brackaharagh, Kerry, in rough pasture overlooking Cove Harbour to the east. It is a roughly oval enclosure, 27 metres north to south and 22.6 metres east to west. The ground inside is raised about 2 metres above the level outside, its surface uneven and dotted with low sod-covered mounds and upright grave-markers. It is heavily overgrown. The original enclosing wall is almost completely obscured, its upper courses partly rebuilt in recent times.

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During Cromwell's campaign of 1649 to 1653, West Cove is a rock and islet-studded inlet in Kerry, near which a fight is said to have occurred between his soldiers and the Irish. The record gives no detail of the fight itself, who took part, or what the outcome was. A road turning leads by gradual ascent to the Chapel of Coad, a little ruin on the hill slope, dedicated to St Crohane, patron saint of the locality. The cove next to Glenbeg carries an older story. A party of Partholan's men went along the shores to find a landing-place for the rest of the host, and from that cove waved branches of trees to their comrades to signify that a suitable place had been found. That cove is called, in Celtic, the cove of branches, to the present time.

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This is a tower house at Behaghane, also known as Castle Cove or Bunaneer Castle, standing on a low rise of rock outcrop on the north shore of Kenmare Bay, with views of the Beara Peninsula to the south. Tradition ascribes its building both to the O'Sullivan Mores and the Brennans. It is recorded that a skirmish between O'Sullivan More's forces and a party of Cromwellians took place in a nearby field, named Droumfaddy, in 1641. The ruins consist of a rectangular tower house, 11.8 metres north to south by 9.9 metres east to west externally, built of split stone rubble in mortar with beach pebble and shell inclusions. The quoins are of sandstone, but most other dressings are of limestone. Two floors remain, but evidence indicates a third formerly existed. The north, east and west walls survive to just above the first floor, but the south wall and much of the south-west angle is destroyed. Each floor has a main chamber with small mural chambers at the west. The storeys were timber-floored, with access by a stair in the north-west angle. The ground floor has a strong base batter returned to a height of 2.8 metres. On each wall-face are the remains of a recessed triangular plane. Similar features occur on a few tower houses elsewhere in Ireland where gun loops served the walls below. The entrance is at ground floor level, midway along the west wall. The doorway is completely defaced but may have been fitted for a grille secured from a mural chamber. The flagged roof of the entrance lobby has a murder-hole served from the first floor. No section survives above the first floor, but the stair's continuing ascent, corbels at the upper levels, and a garderobe near the north-east angle indicate a second floor formerly existed.

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This is a children's burial ground at Killeen, in the townland of Dunkerron South, not far from the north shore of Kenmare Bay. Field boundaries mark two sides of it, and rough lines of boulders mark the other two. It measures 22.5 metres by 12.2 metres inside. Upright grave-markers stand in regular rows across the ground, with prostrate slabs and scattered stones toward the centre. Two pillar-like slabs at the north-east side rise .85 metres and .65 metres high. It was no longer in use as a burial ground by the late nineteenth century.

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A children's burial ground in Derry West, in Kerry, on a low rise overlooking low-lying ground to the north. The site is roughly D-shaped, about 20.5 metres north to south and 29 metres east to west, with remnants of an enclosing bank of earth and stone along the north and west sides. The Ordnance Survey name books described it as a burial place for children only, and it was last used for interment in the late 1930s. The interior is overgrown with holly and furze, and holds rows of uninscribed upright grave-markers running north to south, averaging 0.3 metres high. Near the east margin there is an L-shaped arrangement of slabs, 5.7 metres north to south and 1.9 metres east to west. Quartz stones are scattered across the site. A modern plaque outside the north edge reads, 'In Loving Memory of the Babes Buried Here RIP.'

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North of Sneem, the road becomes little more than a mountain byway leading into the depths of the hills. The semicircle of hills forming the Pocket cannot be mistaken. Mullaghahattin rises to 2539 feet, and Beoun to 2468 feet, and between them lies this deep recess. The track leads right into it and ends at a ruined house. A small stream flows through this lonely spot, and the hills about it present a strange and wild appearance, with their precipitous rocky sides streaked here and there with vivid green growth. A return journey could be made on foot over the western ridge between Faher Mountain and Eskine, but it is almost impossible to push a bicycle by this rough route, though it has been done.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from Kerry (1907), Crane, Charles Paston, 1857-, Internet Archive kerry00cran, Chapter 58 · source

Coming up now is Sneem, the chief village in the parish of Killcrohane. It sits prettily at the head of an estuary formed by the Sneem river and two or three mountain streamlets. You have been travelling through this parish ever since Darrynane. As the road comes up to the village, there is a grand panorama of hills on the far side of the bay, separating Kerry and Cork, and a still grander view of the high mountains round Killarney opening out to the left. Perhaps the most charming sight of all is the valley leading up to Coomcallee, a sharp and precipitous mountain more than two thousand feet high, with a pretty lake lying at its foot. The village itself contains a Roman Catholic church with a curious campanile, a Protestant church, and a comfortable inn.

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Drimna Beg is a children's burial ground, a cillín where young children were once laid to rest. In the late nineteenth century it was described as a burial ground formerly used for the interment of young children, but now disused. It appears on the first edition of the OS map as a pair of conjoined enclosures, though today it survives as a single unenclosed area, roughly circular, in dense woodland. The burial ground measures 20 metres north to south and 25 metres east to west. A rough wall of boulders and earth, 12.5 metres long, 0.5 metres high and 1 metre wide, runs from the east edge to the centre. Loose stone is scattered across the north-east part, where rows of uninscribed grave-markers stand, averaging 0.35 metres high, the tallest 0.55 metres. Close by, to the north-west, a cut headstone bears the date 1878.

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Parknasilla in Kerry holds Ogham stones collected by the Bishop of Limerick. Ogham is an ancient writing character, long undeciphered. The stones may now be seen in the grounds of Parknasilla Hotel, which was formerly the Bishop's own residence. Antiquities abound in Kerry and in Cork, such as cromlechs, standing stones, or gallauns, some of which show writing in the Ogham character. These are pre-Christian remains. The stones the Bishop gathered are among them, bearing inscriptions that for so long no one could read.

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This is a possible holy well dedicated to St. Anne, in the townland of Derryquin, in woodland near the eastern shore of Askive Lough. The lake is known locally as Hollywood Lake, and the well was also called St. Anne's Well or Hollywood Well. It appears on the 1892 Ordnance Survey map, though it is now closed in. Askive Lough lies in Askive Wood on the north side of the main Sneem-Kenmare road, on low ground south-west of Knockanamadane, its shores virtually inaccessible due to heavy overgrowth. A pattern was held at the lake on July 8th, beginning the preceding evening. The rounds consisted of making three circuits of the lake while reciting prayers, beginning and ending at a holly tree whose shape resembled a woman. Pilgrims stuck pins and coins into the trunk and tied rags to its branches. They also brought lake water home. The pattern day was known as "the morning of the lake." Graves noted that pilgrims travelled long distances to avail of the lake waters' "miraculous power," which was particularly efficacious in curing "sores." According to one of Ó Cíobháin's informants, it was at the well and not the lake that the pattern was held. Local tradition places Anne in penal times and associates her with a nearby mass-rock called Com an Aifrinn. There are numerous versions of the tale of her encounter with Redcoats hunting a local priest, and of her drowning at their hands. Lyne suggests the lake's association with St. Anne may evidence a pre-Christian veneration to the goddess Áine, and the Hollywood pattern may have originally been a Lughnasa festival. Folk tradition associates floating islands with the lake, a connection shared with Loch Mackeenlaun at Kilmakilloge, on the opposite side of Kenmare Bay. That location also held a pattern on July 8th, and large numbers crossed the bay from the Sneem district to attend.

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Coming up is Blackwater Bridge, where the road crosses the Kerry Blackwater. This is one of the many rivers of that name in Ireland, set apart from the others as the Kerry Blackwater. It runs between banks so high that the two-arched bridge is about 60 feet above the surface of the water. The stream tumbles over numerous rocks and forms many pretty cascades in its course to Kenmare Bay, which at this point is scarcely two miles across. Before mingling its fresh water with the sea, the Blackwater again expands and forms a snug little harbour, useful to small coasting vessels. The Blackwater is famous for salmon. The guidebook notes that passengers would stop a few minutes and pass beneath the bridge, an opportunity none should neglect. The wooded slopes you descend lead down to the water, and the cascades run merrily along toward the bay, where the fresh water meets the briny waves.

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No longer in use by the late nineteenth century, this children's burial ground lies in a forestry plantation on a south-west slope overlooking the Blackwater river in Dromore, Dunkerron South By., Kerry. The unenclosed burial area measures 20.7 metres north to south and 20.3 metres east to west. Trees have recently been planted within it, and a fire-prevention trench cuts through the site. A modern track skirts it at the south-west. The ground is covered in dense vegetation, which largely obscures the rows of upright grave-markers running north to south throughout the site. The Ordnance Survey Name Book recorded it as an old small fort which is a noted place for burying children. It does not display any ringfort-type features, but a souterrain opening is located externally at the south-west. It measures 1.1 metres wide and .55 metres high, leading into an earth-tunnelled passage extending to the north-east, measuring .7 metres high and 1.2 metres wide. A depression centrally located in the site's interior may indicate the souterrain's further extension in that direction.

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This is Toberagrahig, a holy well in sloping woodland on the north shore of Kenmare Bay, in Dromore, Kerry. It is a rock-cut hemispherical hollow, 0.4 metres in diameter. The waters are locally held to have curative powers. The Ordnance Survey name books recorded that rounds were made at the well on Saturdays, and the IFC Schools' Collection noted that it was visited on Good Friday.

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This is a tower house called Cappanacush Castle, standing on a rock outcrop on a low ridge close to the north shore of Kenmare Bay. It was built by Conchur O'Sullivan, a grandson of Macarius O'Sullivan More, whose life falls before about 1450. The castle belonged to a branch of the O'Sullivans known as the Sliocht Mac Crath. Today it is poorly preserved, standing in a forestry plantation. Only the south wall survives to almost full height, with the east and west returns attached. The wall runs 10.5 metres in length and 1.85 metres in thickness, built of limestone with roughly coursed split stone laid in a heavy gravel mortar that includes marine shells. The features inside show the castle once stood five storeys high, with vaults roofing the first and third floors. The first floor was carried on beams, and the sockets for two survive in the west wall. At ground level a small rectangular loop opens in the south wall, and the west wall holds the drawbar channel of a shuttered window. The second floor had a narrow loop and a window with moulded jambs. The third floor was carried on timber beams and roofed by a vault, with a pointed loop of dressed chamfered stone midway along the south wall, a large fireplace with a dressed lintel to its east, and a wall-cupboard to its west. The uppermost floor rested on scarcements, and the south-east angle may hold the chute of a garderobe from the third floor. Near the south-west angle, a single merlon and part of the alure, drained by projecting dripstones, still survive.

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Dunkerron Castle served as the principal residence of the O'Sullivan Mores. In 1580 Owen O'Sullivan was inaugurated as O'Sullivan More, and he and his second wife, Sily MacCarthy Riabhach, are said to have built the manor house adjoining the castle. In 1588 he was described as "lord of a great country, the Earl's seneschal and marshal." In 1632, during the occupancy of Donal O'Sullivan More, the castle was called "a strong and defensible building." It remained O'Sullivan More property until 1656, when it was confiscated. Sir William Petty then acquired it, and the O'Sullivan More's petitions for the return of his lands failed. The castle stands on a low rise of limestone outcrop on the grounds of Dunkerron House, about 3km west of Kenmare, overlooking Kenmare Bay to the south with views of the Beara Peninsula. It is a large tower house, rectangular in plan, built of roughly coursed limestone. The north wall still stands to its full height of 18.3 metres, though the south, east and west walls do not survive above the upper levels of the ground floor. It had four storeys and a vault over the first floor, now collapsed. A small bawn was attached on the south side, with an attached turret at the west end of that side. Inside the turret, a chamber about 5 metres deep, its bottom about 2 metres below ground level, probably served as an oubliette dungeon. Concrete remains of a crazy golf course lie close to the base of the castle on its north, east and south sides.

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Somewhere close to Dunkerron, O'Sullivan More, lord of Dunkerron near Kenmare, pursued a spirit of the ocean into the deep and won her promise on an enchanted isle. When she dived to seek her monarch's sanction for the match, the water boiled up in wrath and was tinged with her blood. Consent was refused and she was slain. The crystal palace melted in air, and a wave bore the exhausted chieftain back to shore.

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Kenmare is a town the road passes through or near, and in October of 1645 it was where a significant arrival took place. On the 11th of that month, the Papal Nuncio disembarked in the Bay of Killmair. His voyage had been perilous. A Parliamentary frigate nearly captured his ship, and he was saved only when the frigate's chimney caught fire, forcing it to lie to. The Nuncio was Giovanni Battista Rinuccini, Archbishop of Fermo, sent by Innocent the Tenth. He was to exercise a great influence on Irish history. The book describes him as a man cast in the iron mould of bigotry, austere in morals and doctrine, narrow in his views, and singularly forcible in a society where the atmosphere was one of compromise. His lifelong ambition was restoring Ireland to the obedience of the Holy See. He did not lack the graces of eloquence and learning, and he was free from avarice. The author notes that he was not tainted with the corruption that has sometimes beset eminent ecclesiastics. But he treated any resistance to his decrees as rank sacrilege. Regarding himself as the representative of God's Vicegerent, he never disentangled his individual from his ghostly personality. The suggestion of an affront added intensity to his resentment and gave the aspect of a moral obligation to what the author calls purely egotistic rancour. On the 12th of November, a month after landing, he made a triumphal entry into Kilkenny.

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Gortamullin in Kerry holds a spring well dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary, known as Tobar Muire, or Mary's Well. It sits on the outskirts of Kenmare town, a short distance west of the Finnihy river. The well is slab-lined, and an encased statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary surmounts it. A slab set in concrete nearby bears a deeply incised cross. In former times the well was visited on Saturdays, in the words of the source, "by persons afflicted with any sickness." A pattern is held on August 15th, the feast day of Our Lady, when a major fair also takes place in the town.

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Close to Kenmare, there was once an old entrance into the county of Kerry. Kerry was called the kingdom of Kerry in old times. The road coming in from Cork passes through a tunnel cut through the rock, about 200 yards long, with two shorter tunnels nearby. The road down toward Kenmare Harbour is smooth and well kept, and counted among the best roads in the kingdom. It was not always so. At one period this road was proverbial for the poverty of the land and the wretchedness of its people. A saying went that a Kerry cow never looks up at a passing stranger, for fear it would lose the bite. Long ago, at stated seasons, the agents of the lord of the land stationed themselves at the old entrance into the county. They waited there to meet the beggars as they were returning homewards from Cork to Kerry. The beggars had gone out collecting half-pence, and the agents took those half-pence from them. That was how the rents of their cabins were paid. The agents received the rents by taking from the beggars the coins they had gathered. So the poor who had gone out begging came home and handed over what they had collected, and that settled what they owed for their cabins.

Told by the narrator (z-ai/glm-5.2) from A week at Killarney : with descriptions of the routes thither from Dublin, Cork, &c. (1865), Hall, S. C. (Samuel Carter), 1800-1889, Internet Archive weekatkillarneyw00hall, Chapter 38 · source

A detached former Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, Kenmare Garda Station, built about 1835. It was originally five-bay on a symmetrical plan, with a three-bay entrance breakfront and single-bay recessed flanking bays. The walls are coursed limestone ashlar at the front, rubble stone at the sides and rear. It had lunette windows to the ground floor and timber sliding sash windows throughout. An extension was added about 1900, and the building underwent renovation in 1998. A gateway built about 1895 stands to the north-east, with six limestone ashlar piers and cast-iron gates shared with the hotel. It now serves as a Garda Station.

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