Qualla: County Kerry https://qualla.com/county-kerry en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:11 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: County Kerry https://qualla.com/county-kerry County Kerry: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-kerry/ Kerry calls itself the Kingdom. The nickname is not a tourism slogan or a recent invention. It is the kind of self-description that gets used because the people who use it believe it. Ireland's most westerly county runs 886 kilometres of Atlantic coastline, contains the country's highest mountain, holds two of Ireland's strongest Gaeltacht regions, and produced thirty-nine senior Gaelic football All-Ireland titles - more than any other county. The next nearest team has thirty-one. Whether or not Kerry is, by some objective measure, separate from the rest of Ireland, it certainly behaves as if it is. The name comes from the Ciarraige - the people of Ciar, son of Fergus mac Roich - a Gaelic tribe whose territory included part of the modern county. The 'people of Ciar' have not all gone away.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/0/county-kerry-wp/gc30-county-kerry-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full County Kerry: The Edge of Ireland https://qualla.com/county-kerry/ Kerry is bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the west and the River Shannon on the north, with County Limerick to the east and County Cork to the south and east. With 4,807 square kilometres and 156,458 people as of 2022, it is the fifth largest of Ireland's thirty-two counties by a...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/0/county-kerry-wp/gc30-county-kerry-the-edge-of-ireland.mp3 0:06 2 full County Kerry: Where Irish Is Still Spoken https://qualla.com/county-kerry/ Kerry has two official Gaeltacht regions: Gaeltacht Uibh Rathaigh on the Iveragh Peninsula and Gaeltacht Corca Dhuibhne on the Dingle Peninsula. Corca Dhuibhne is the only Gaeltacht in the entire province of Munster where Irish is the daily spoken language of the majority of the ...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/0/county-kerry-wp/gc30-county-kerry-where-irish-is-still-spoken.mp3 0:06 3 full County Kerry: Famine, Rebellion, and Civil War https://qualla.com/county-kerry/ Kerry was hammered by the Great Famine of 1845-49. Its population dropped 19 percent between the censuses of 1841 and 1851, and emigration continued until the 1980s. The Kerryonians, an early Irish criminal gang in nineteenth-century New York, took their name from this county. Ke...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/0/county-kerry-wp/gc30-county-kerry-famine-rebellion-and-civil-war.mp3 0:06 4 full County Kerry: Football and Smerwick https://qualla.com/county-kerry/ In 1580, during the Second Desmond Rebellion, one of the most infamous massacres of the sixteenth century took place at Dun an Oir near Smerwick on the Dingle Peninsula. A 600-strong Italian, Spanish, and Irish papal invasion force led by James Fitzmaurice FitzGerald was besieged...

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/3/0/county-kerry-wp/gc30-county-kerry-football-and-smerwick.mp3 0:06 5 full County Kerry: What Survives at the Edge https://qualla.com/county-kerry/ Kerry has an unusual density of archaeological sites - dating from the Mesolithic, the Neolithic, the Bronze Age, and the Iron Age. Atlantic rock art carvings, distinct from the megalithic art at Newgrange, cluster especially on the Iveragh and Dingle peninsulas. Bronze Age stand...

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