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Dunquin lies at the most westerly tip of the Dingle Peninsula, overlooking the Blasket Islands. [1] At 10°27'16"W, it is the most westerly settlement of Ireland and of Eurasia, excluding Iceland. Nearby Dunmore Head is the most westerly point of mainland Ireland. The town is linked to Dingle via the R559 regional road.
Dingle (Irish: An Daingean or Daingean Uí Chúis, meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") [9] is a town in County Kerry, Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula , it sits on the Atlantic coast , about 50 kilometres (30 mi) southwest of Tralee and 71 kilometres (40 mi) northwest of Killarney . [ 10 ]
Inch and Inch Strand in County Kerry. Inch (Irish: Inse, meaning 'river meadow') [1] is a small coastal settlement and townland on the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, Ireland. Inch Strand, in Inch townland, [2] is on a long sand spit and dune system which reaches into Dingle Bay. [3] The R561 regional road passes through the area.
It is situated on the north side of the Dingle Peninsula, halfway between Tralee and Dingle. As of the 2022 census, Castlegregory had a population of 370. [1] Castlegregory was named after a castle built by Gregory Hoare in the 16th century. [3] It is the principal village in Lettragh, the name given to the northern side of the Dingle Peninsula ...
Due to its location on Slea Head, on the Dingle Peninsula, the beach at Coumeenoole Bay is a tourist destination. [4] The area is connected to Dingle, to the east, via the R559 regional road. The 2011 census records no occupied houses in the townlands of Coumeenoole North and Coumeenoole South. [5]
Ballintaggart Ogham Stones are located inside a round enclosure (diameter 30 m / 100 ft), immediately east of Dingle racecourse and southeast of the town. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] History
This is an incomplete index of the current and historical principal family seats of clans, peers and landed gentry families in Ireland. Most of the houses belonged to the Old English and Anglo-Irish aristocracy, and many of those located in the present Republic of Ireland were abandoned, sold or destroyed following the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War of the early 1920s.
The Dingle Peninsula (Irish: Corca Dhuibhne; anglicised as Corkaguiny or Corcaguiny, the name of the corresponding barony) is the northernmost of the major peninsulas in County Kerry. It ends beyond the town of Dingle at Dunmore Head , the westernmost point of Ireland .