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. […]
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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, […]