Tralee

Capital of Kerry and seat of the FitzGeralds of Desmond until their earldom was destroyed in 1583. The Rose of Tralee festival, which began in 1959, grew out of a nineteenth-century ballad about a servant girl and the merchant's son who loved her.

Tralee stands at the head of Tralee Bay, where an old road climbs south over the Slieve Mish; on it is a boulder called Scotia's Grave, reputedly the burial place of an ancient queen. The Normans founded the town in the 13th century, and it became a stronghold of the Earls of Desmond, who built Tralee Castle. John FitzThomas FitzGerald founded the Dominican friary and was buried there in 1260. The town was burned in 1580 in the Desmond Rebellions.

Elizabeth I granted Tralee to Edward Denny in 1587, and James I gave it a charter in 1613. Sir Edward Denny, 4th Baronet, kept his tenants' rents down during the Famine when other landlords raised them. Denny Street, a broad Georgian street on the site of the old castle, was finished in 1826; its Pikeman statue, remembering the risings of 1798 to 1867, was destroyed by the Black and Tans in 1921 and replaced in 1939. The ship canal opened in 1846 but silted up, and Fenit harbour replaced it in the 1880s.

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

• Ratass Church · ogham stone · 1 km
• Tullygarran ogham stones · ogham stone · 4 km
• Ardcanaght Stones · ogham stone · 11 km
• Killaclohane Portal Tomb · dolmen · 13 km
• Tralee Castle · castle · under 1 km
• Castle Maine · castle · 11 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.
• Rattoo round tower · A perfect 11th-century round tower — with a sheela-na-gig carved inside a window: a bold female figure on a holy building, 900 years old and still shocking.
• 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.

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