Aghadoe, County Kerry

Aghadoe (pronounced Ah-ha-doe), or Acha Dá Eo in the old Irish, means "The field of the two yew trees". Traditionally, just one yew tree was planted in monastic sites. For such a small location, Aghadoe Heights has so much to offer -- from the magnificent views of the Killarney Lakes and MacGillycuddy's Reeks, to the 0th century monastic site and graveyard, to the 13th century tower ruins of Parkavonear Castle -- Aghadoe Heights has something for everyone...{more}

Cahersiveen, Ring of Kerry, County Kerry

Much history can be attributed to Ballycarberry Castle, considering its very remote location. In the beginning, there was some kind of structure situated on this site as early as 1398...{more}

Ring of Kerry, County Kerry

During the tourist season, from mid-Spring to late Summer, acre upon acre of bog cotton and wild yellow irises blanket the valley floor. Wild red fuchsia, purple heather and bright yellow gorse line the road and rocky outcrops. Cascades, streams, lakes and rivers flow through blanket bog and woody glens. Late in the season, leafy woodlands change colors and shows another side of the valley with fiery colors...{more}

near Kenmare, County Kerry

Annascaul, County Kerry

Tom Crean, 1877-1938, was a local Annascaulian who was better known as the Kerryman in the Ice, the Bold Adventurer and the Unsung Hero. In his lifetime, this intrepid sense of adventure involved him in several notable expeditions to the Antarctic...{more}

Ring of Kerry, County Kerry

The Gap of Dunloe is flanked by two mountain ranges -- MacGillyduccy's Reeks and the Purple Mountains -- and passes between the Black Valley in the Killarney National Park and Kate Kearney's Cottage near Killarney town. The pass is seven miles in length and passes by five small lakes and the River Loe connects each of these lakes, from which the gap gets its name...{more}

Gleninchaquin, County Kerry

Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry

This golden strand stretches over three miles and if not for a narrow channel, the strand would connect with Rossbeigh Strand on the other side of Dingle Bay. Both strands can be seen from the vantage point above Inch Strand along Red Cliffs Drive/R561...{more}

Glenbeigh, County Kerry

The Kerry Bog Village is an outdoor museum that pays tribute to the turf cutters of Ireland and a way of life not so very far in the past. The moment you step through the main entrance, you'll be whisked into that past and experience what it was like to live in Ireland in the 19th century...{more}

Killarney, County Kerry

There has been a human presense in the Killarney area from at least the Bronze Age when copper was being mined on Ross Island. Christian times saw the building of monastic settlements, the most important of these on Innisfallen Island, founded by St Finian the Leper...{more}

Cahersiveen, Ring of Kerry, County Kerry

Leacanabuile Stone Fort is a circular stone enclosure, also called a ring fort, built during the 9th or 10th century. This type of structure was common in the Iron Age, 700BC-500AD, and was used as homes for wealthy clan rulers...{more}

Black Valley, Ring of Kerry, Co Kerry

The cottage was the hunting lodge for Lord Brandon, the Right Honorable and Reverend William Crosbie (1 November 1771 to 3 May 1832)...Baron of Brandon and Rector of Castleisland. It was written in his obituary that Lord Brandon was "a man of superior order of mind and of great literary attainments."...{more}

Killarney, Co Kerry

Muckross Abbey is one of Ireland's major monastic sites. Founded in 1448 as a Francisco Friary for the Observantine Franciscans by Donal McCarthy Mór, who'd just completed works on Blarney Castle two years previously...{more}

Muckross, County Kerry

It was in 1910 that the Muckross Estate was bought by American tycoon, William Bowers Bourn, who gave it to his daughter Maud on her marriage to Arthur Vincent. £100,000 was then spent improving the estate between 1911 and 1932, which including the building of the Sunken Garden, the Stream Garden and a rock garden on a limestone outcrop behind the house...{more}

Aghadoe, Co Kerry

It's suspected that Parkavonear Castle is of 13th century Anglo-Normal construction. The keep is built on an unusual cylindrical design rather than the traditional rectangle one. The walls are two meters thick, about six and a half feet, and the interior is about thirty feet in diameter...{more}

Killarney, Co Kerry

This is a fine example of a 16th century fortified tower which is surrounded by bawn walls and round turrets, some of which are still somewhat intact. The main tower was built by one of the O'Donoghue Ross choeftain and was held by Lord Muskerry and the Royalists in the Cromwellian Wars...{more}