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The Dingle Peninsula 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 and arguably Europe.
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  • 1. Dingle Oceanworld Dingle
    Dingle is a town in County Kerry, Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula, it sits on the Atlantic coast, about 50 kilometres southwest of Tralee and 71 kilometres northwest of Killarney.Principal industries in the town are tourism, fishing and agriculture: Dingle Mart serves the surrounding countryside. In 2016 Dingle had a population of 2,050. Dingle is situated in a Gaeltacht region. There used to be two secondary schools but they have now amalgamated to produce Pobalscoil Chorca Dhuibhne. An adult Bottlenose dolphin named Fungie has been courting human contact in Dingle Bay since 1983.
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  • 2. Conor Pass Dingle Peninsula
    Conor Pass or Connor Pass is one of the highest Irish mountain passes served by an asphalted road. It is located on the R560 road in County Kerry, Ireland.
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  • 4. Mount Brandon Dingle Peninsula
    Mount Brandon or Brandon at 952 metres , is the 8th-highest peak in Ireland on the Arderin scale, and the 9th-highest according to the Vandeleur-Lynam scale. Brandon is the highest Irish peak outside of the MacGillycuddy's Reeks range, and has the greatest prominence of any peak except Carrauntoohil, Ireland's highest mountain. Brandon is named after Saint Brendan and is the end of a Christian pilgrimage trail known as Cosán na Naomh. Brandon is at the centre of the Brandon Group of mountains in the Dingle Peninsula in Kerry.
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  • 6. Brandon Creek Dingle
    Brandon Creek is also a hamlet near Littleport, CambridgeshireBrandon Creek is a village located at the Dingle Peninsula in the most westerly point of the island of Ireland. According to the 9th century document Voyage of St Brendan the Navigator, Saint Brandon set sail westward from this point in the 6th Century, and traveled into the Atlantic.Adventurer Tim Severin took a five-man crew across the atlantic to prove the legendary voyage of St Brendan was possible in the Sixth century. The journey departed May 1976 from Brandon Creek.
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  • 8. Ventry Beach Ventry
    Ventry , an anglicization of Fionntrá, is a Gaeltacht village in County Kerry, Ireland. Located on the Dingle Peninsula, 7 kilometres west of Dingle, the village of Ventry was once the main port of the peninsula. Due to its long sandy beach, Ventry is now a popular tourist destination. Six kilometres west of Ventry are the ruins of Dunbeg , an Iron Age promontory fort on the edge of a steep cliff. Near Dunbeg is Kilvickadownig, home to other archeologial ruins, including examples of the beehive house and the grave of Caol or Cháil Mic Crimthainn, the last to die in the Battle of Ventry from the well-known Fenian Cycle myths. A site of interest in Ventry parish is Rahinnane Castle, which was the residence of the Knight of Kerry. The Knight of Kerry lived there until Cromwellian times. The...
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  • 9. Killarney National Park Killarney
    Killarney National Park , near the town of Killarney, County Kerry, was the first national park in Ireland, created when Muckross Estate was donated to the Irish Free State in 1932. The park has since been substantially expanded and encompasses over 102.89 km2 of diverse ecology, including the Lakes of Killarney, oak and yew woodlands of international importance, and mountain peaks. It has the only red deer herd on mainland Ireland and the most extensive covering of native forest remaining in Ireland. The park is of high ecological value because of the quality, diversity, and extensiveness of many of its habitats and the wide variety of species that they accommodate, some of which are rare. The park was designated a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve in 1981. The park forms part of a Special Area of...
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  • 10. Inch Beach Inch
    Inch Island ) is an island in Lough Swilly, County Donegal, Ireland.
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  • 12. Gougane Barra National Forest Park Gougane Barra
    Gougane Barra is a settlement, west of Macroom in County Cork, Ireland.
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  • 13. The Dingle Way Dingle Peninsula
    The Dingle Peninsula 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 and arguably Europe.
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