Qualla: Cromane

Cromane: Introduction

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Rossographer, CC BY-SA 2.0. The peninsula juts out into Castlemaine Harbour like a bent hip, and the Irish name takes the shape literally: An Cromán, the hip bone. Cromane is a small village on a curl of land nine kilometres west of Killorglin, looking north across the bay to the Dingle Peninsula and west toward Glenbeigh and the Iveragh. The bones of the place are old. The mussel beds offshore are the largest natural beds in Ireland. The oysters, a newer trade, are grown on long trestles you can see at low tide. And the father of the man who coined the term artificial intelligence came from this village before he went to America, where his son grew up to invent a discipline.

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Cromane: A 360-Degree View Almost Nowhere Else Has

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Ingo Mehling, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cromane is one of the few places in Kerry where you can stand on a single piece of ground and see, in three sweeps of the eye, the Brandon Mountain range to the north, the Slieve Mish mountains to the east, and MacGillycuddy's Reeks to the south, with Carrauntoohil rising on the ...

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Cromane: Mussels, Oysters, and Jack's Coastguard

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit YvonneM, CC BY-SA 3.0. Cromane was a salmon fishing village for centuries before it became something else. Since the middle of the twentieth century it has built itself into an aquaculture centre, and the change has reshaped the working week along the strand. Castlemaine Harbour holds Ireland's largest...

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Cromane: Twelve Men to a Boat

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cromane has a rowing club, founded in 1956, and the boat it is best known for is not a sleek modern shell but a Seine boat, a heavy traditional craft once used for mackerel fishing along the South Kerry coast. A Seine crew is twelve oarsmen pulling six oars (two men to an oar) wi...

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Cromane: The Father from Cromane, the Son in Palo Alto

Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Photo credit BenToogood, CC BY-SA 4.0. John McCarthy, born 1927 in Boston, is the American computer scientist who in 1955 coined the term artificial intelligence as part of a proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project. He went on to invent the programming language LISP, to develop time-sharing systems at MIT a...

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