The vagaries of searching for ancestors in the Beara Peninsula and Bonane in particular are well known. A large area of the Beara Peninsula is in Co. Cork but in the Catholic Diocese of Co. Kerry. I am grateful to Mike Riney for his Guest Post here, giving us an excellent explanation of the […]
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Born in Kerry?
If your ancestors were born in Kerry, where were they born? And I don’t mean, what location? I mean do you know exactly where they were born? At home, a hospital, a private nursing home or …? Well the answer is that it depends on when they were born. What era? From the earliest […]
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, […]
Life in Kerry in the...
It is important to give descendants of Kerry ancestors a picture of what life was like when your grandparents or great/great grandparents emigrated, from the county in the nineteenth century: Travel: For most of the nineteenth century, travel in County Kerry was walking or by horse or donkey & car. A person walking will average […]