The main town of Kerry, Tralee is set at the mouth of Tralee Bay. This town is the entrance to both the Dingle and Kerry Head Peninsula. This town is famous after the International Rose of Tralee Festival and the Tralee Races. These two events are held on the same weekend in the second half of August every year, attracting tourists to Tralee from all places.
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Antiquities
The dolmens of Co. Kerry (Self Catering, Kerry, Ireland) number, according to Borlase, twenty-two. Two in the townland of Gortna-gulla may be mentioned, as they have been examined and planned in recent years. Both are wedge-shaped structures and belong to a type common in the South of Ireland.
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Botany
Lough Derg is the lower of the two great lake-like expansions of the Shannon, the other, Lough Ree, lying further up the river. Save at its southern end, where he lake is embosomed in hills of Silurian slate, the winding shores are. formed of low-lying limestones, and the numerous islands arc composed of the same rock. Botanical interest centres on the low, uncultivated islets and reefs, and on the sloping, stony shores. Here a peculiar flora is developed, as the following list of abundant plants will show :
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Land Area: 4,746 km County Town: Tralee Code: KY Population: 132,527 (2002) Province: Munster |
Kerry a county of Ireland, province of Munster bounded E by Limerick and Cork, W by the Atlantic, N by the Shannon, which separates it from Thomond, and S by Desmond and the ocean, divided into 84 parishes. Chief rivers are Cashing, Lane, Roughy, and Mang. The south is a plain, and fertile in corn; but the greater part is mountainous, chiefly adapted for grazing. Considerable quantities of beef, butter, hides, and tallow, are exported. It sends 4 members to parliament. The Ciarrai invaded and occupied the region in early historical times. They claimed descent from Ciar, son of Fergus, a legendary king of Ulster. In 
the middle ages Kerry (Hotels, Kerry, Ireland) was divided between the kingdoms of Thomond in the north and Desmond in the south, dominated by the O’Briens and the McCarthys respectively. The Norman Fitzgeralds later dominated it.
