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Religious Site Attractions In County Kerry

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County Kerry is a county in Ireland. It is located in the South-West Region and is also part of the province of Munster. It is named after the Ciarraige who lived in part of the present county. Kerry County Council is the local authority for the county and Tralee serves as the county town. The population of the county was 147,707 at the 2016 census.
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Religious Site Attractions In County Kerry

  • 1. Gallarus Oratory Dingle
    The Gallarus Oratory (Irish: Séipéilín Ghallarais, Gallarus being interpreted as either rocky headland or house or shelter for foreigner , is a chapel located on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. It has been presented variously as an early Christian stone church by its discoverer, antiquary Charles Smith, in 1756; a 12th-century Romanesque church by archaeologist Peter Harbison in 1970; a shelter for pilgrims by the same in 1994. The local tradition prevalent at the time of the oratory's discovery attributed it to one Griffith More, being a funerary chapel built by him or his family at their burial place. The oratory overlooks the harbour at Ard na Caithne on the Dingle Peninsula.
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  • 2. St. John's Church Tralee
    Saint Brendan of Clonfert , also referred to as Brendan moccu Altae, called the Navigator, the Voyager, the Anchorite, and the Bold, is one of the early Irish monastic saints and one of the Twelve Apostles of Ireland. He is primarily renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the Blessed, also denominated Saint Brendan's Island. The Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis can be described as an immram, i. e., Irish navigational narrative. Saint Brendan's feast day is celebrated on 16 May by the Roman Catholics, Anglicans, and Orthodox Christians.
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  • 3. Muckross Abbey Killarney
    Muckross House is located on the small Muckross Peninsula between Muckross Lake and Lough Leane, two of the lakes of Killarney, 6 kilometres from the town of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. In 1932 it was presented by William Bowers Bourn and Arthur Rose Vincent to the Irish nation. It thus became the first National Park in the Irish Free State and formed the basis of the present day Killarney National Park.
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  • 4. Kilmalkedar Church Dingle
    Kilmalkedar is a medieval ecclesiastical site and National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland.
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  • 5. Daniel O'Connell Memorial Church Cahersiveen
    Daniel O'Connell , often referred to as The Liberator or The Emancipator, was an Irish political leader in the first half of the 19th century. He campaigned for Catholic emancipation—including the right for Catholics to sit in the Westminster Parliament, denied for over 100 years—and repeal of the Acts of Union which combined Great Britain and Ireland. Throughout his career in Irish politics, O'Connell was able to gain a large following among the Irish masses in support of him and his Catholic Association. O'Connell's main strategy was one of political reformism, working within the parliamentary structures of the British state in Ireland and forming an alliance of convenience with the Whigs. More radical elements broke with O'Connell to found the Young Ireland movement.
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  • 6. St. John's Art and Heritage Centre Listowel
    Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, , was a senior British Army officer and colonial administrator who won notoriety for his imperial campaigns, most especially his scorched earth policy against the Boers and his establishment of concentration camps during the Second Boer War, and later played a central role in the early part of the First World War. Kitchener was credited in 1898 for winning the Battle of Omdurman and securing control of the Sudan for which he was made Lord Kitchener of Khartoum, becoming a qualifying peer and of mid-rank as an Earl. As Chief of Staff in the Second Boer War he played a key role in Lord Roberts' conquest of the Boer Republics, then succeeded Roberts as commander-in-chief – by which time Boer forces had taken to guerrilla fighting ...
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  • 7. Annagh Church Tralee
    Annagh Church is a medieval church and National Monument in County Kerry, Ireland.Annagh Church is located at the north end of Annagh burial ground, 3.6 km southwest of Tralee, on the south side of Tralee Bay.The church dates to the 12th–15th centuries. There are many ancient sites in the area: Tonakilla Fort, a ringfort and standing stones.The doorway is unusual in Ireland, with drip-moulding completely around it, making it similar to the Anglo-Norman style.
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  • 8. Church Island Waterville
    Church Island is a medieval Christian monastery and National Monument located in Lough Currane, Ireland.
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  • 9. Ballinskelligs Abbey Ballinskelligs
    Ballinskelligs, officially Baile an Sceilg , is a Gaeltacht village in the south-west of the Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. The townland is in the Civil Parish of Prior and was in the Poor law union of Cahersiveen. The rock referred to in the village's Irish name are the Skellig Islands—Skellig Michael and Little Skellig—an ancient monastic colony which lies off the coast from Ballinskelligs. The town is also the site of a beach, the ruins of Ballinskelligs Priory of Augustinian Canons Regular, and the remains of Ballinskelligs Castle.
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  • 11. St. Mary's Cathedral Killarney
    St. Mary's Cathedral, Killarney, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in County Kerry, Ireland. St. Mary's Cathedral was designed by the renowned English Architect Augustus Welby Pugin who is said to have gained inspiration from the ruins of Ardfert Cathedral which is particularly evident in the slender triple lancets in the east and west walls.Construction was not continuous. The Great Famine and the lack of available funds meant the work was stopped several times and when recommenced in 1853 the interior decorations were designed by James Joseph McCarthy. In 1855 the building was ready for regular worship. Separately the spire and nave were completed in 1907 by the Irish Architects Ashlin and Coleman of Dublin who had designed Cobh Cathedral. The width of the nave was based on the medieval mode...
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  • 12. St. Patrick's Church Kenmare
    Sir Boyle Roche, 1st Baronet was an Irish politician. After a distinguished career in North America with the British Army, Roche became a member of the Irish House of Commons in 1775, generally acting in support of the viceregal government. He is better remembered for the language of his speeches than his politics—they were riddled with mixed metaphors , malapropisms and other unfortunate turns of phrase . Roche may have been Richard Brinsley Sheridan's model for Mrs Malaprop. While arguing for a bill, Roche once said, It would surely be better, Mr. Speaker, to give up not only a part, but, if necessary, even the whole, of our constitution, to preserve the remainder! While these Irish bulls have led many writers to portray Roche as a buffoon, other biographers have interpreted them not a...
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  • 14. Aghadoe Church and Round Tower Killarney
    Aghadoe Cathedral was a church that may have been the seat of a bishop at Aghadoe, Ireland . The now ruined cathedral overlooks the Lakes of Killarney from Aghadoe, a few miles from Killarney. Aghadoe may have been the site of a church as early as the seventh century, but extant remains are of a stone structure built in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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  • 15. Holy Cross Church Tralee
    Holy Cross Accordion Band Atticall is an Irish Accordion band from County Down in Ireland formed in 1974. They are a non-profit accordion band that performs in competitions and parades all over Ireland. They are from a small village called Atticall near Kilkeel and Newry in County Down.It has a very small population of around 200 people so the sustainability of the band relies on consant fresh blood joining which can be challenging in a predominant Football and Gaa culture area. The band participates in Marching band and Fleadh competitions in Ireland and they have been very successful recently. The band has over 50 members aged six to over forty and is going from strength to strength. Recently in 2014 they celebrated 40 years of existence.
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