Killorglin

A Kerry town on the River Laune, on the Ring of Kerry, best known for Puck Fair each August, which opens with the crowning of a wild goat as king. On Good Friday 1916 a car carrying Irish Volunteers on their way to seize the wireless station at Valentia took a wrong turn onto Ballykissane pier and plunged into the river; three drowned, the first deaths of the Easter Rising. Fexco was founded here in 1981.

Prehistoric rock art of the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age is found around Killorglin, along with ringforts and early church sites. Maurice FitzGerald, 2nd Lord of Offaly, built Killorglin Castle, later Castle Conway, in the early 13th century, and the FitzGeralds held the area until the Desmond Rebellions; in 1587, under the Munster Plantation, the town and castle were granted to Captain Jenkin Conway. Much of the town centre was laid out in the 19th century, with the Church of Ireland church built in 1816 and the Catholic church in 1891. On Good Friday, 21 April 1916, a car carrying three Volunteers bound for Cahirciveen got lost outside the town and drove off Ballykissane quay into the Laune. Only the driver, Thomas McInerney, escaped; the others drowned.

Drawn from the History section of the Wikipedia article on Killorglin ↗, rewritten here and adding nothing it does not say; licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

• Kilcoolaght East ogham stones · ogham stone · 5 km
• Killaclohane Portal Tomb · dolmen · 8 km
• Ardcanaght Stones · ogham stone · 8 km
• Dunloe Ogham Stones · ogham stone · 11 km
• Castle Conway · castle · under 1 km
• Ballymalis Castle · castle · 7 km
• Castle Maine · castle · 9 km

Straight-line distances from the town centre, from each site's documented coordinates.

• Dunloe Ogham Stones · Eight ogham stones in a circle by the road to the Gap — Ireland's earliest writing, notches on the edge of the stone naming forgotten chiefs.
• Ross Island copper mines · Among the earliest copper mines in north-west Europe, worked from 2400 BC by Beaker-culture miners with fire and stone hammers — beside Killarney's tourist lake.
• Slieve Mish — the Milesian landing · The sons of Míl, ancestors of the Gaels, came ashore in Kerry and fought the Tuatha Dé Danann at Slieve Mish. Defeated, the Tuatha Dé retreated underground into the sídhe.
• Lough Leane — O'Donoghue's return · Every May Day at dawn the chieftain O'Donoghue rides across the lake on a white horse; to see him brings a year's good luck.

All of these are pinned on the Hidden Ireland map.