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Beara Baronies, Pari...

Searching for Kerry ancestors in the Beara Peninsula?  The Beara Peninsula is split between Counties Kerry and Cork.   It can be problematic tracing ancestor’s vital records in this area – more so than usual.   A complication arises that a number of the Beara Catholic Parishes in County Cork are in the Catholic Diocese of Kerry. […]

Kenmare, Co. Kerry 1...

An excerpt from Samuel Lewis Kenmare – A Topographical Dictionary of Ireland 1837: Kenmare, a post-town and parish, in the barony of GLANEROUGH, county of KERRY, and province of MUNSTER, 30 1/2 [?] miles (S.) from Tralee, and 160 miles (S.W.)from Dublin, on the new road from Killarney t.o Glengariff; containing 4957 inhabitants, of which number, […]