Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis
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Dingle ( or Daingean Uí Chúis, meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") is a town in County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula (known in Irish as Corca Dhuibhne), it sits on the Atlantic coast, about southwest of Tralee and northwest of Killarney. Principal industries in the town are tourism, fishing and agriculture: Dingle Mart (livestock market) serves the surrounding countryside. The town is located in the Barony of Corkaguiny (the name 'Corkaguiny' being the anglicised version of Corca Dhuibhne).
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Place details
- Region
- Munster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 2,050
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.name
- Dingle
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Dingle Strand Street.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Strand Street, Dingle
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- none
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Irish Grid Reference
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Munster
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- County Kerry
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Barony
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Corkaguiny
- Settlement.population_total
- 1671
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Part of
- Dingle Peninsula
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Kerry
- Area
- 3.30
- Elevation
- 1
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Dingle-Skyline-2012.JPG
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- Commons category
- Dingle, County Kerry
- topic's main category
- Category:Dingle
- twinned administrative body
- Santa Barbara
- located in/on physical feature
- Atlantic Ocean
- Commons gallery
- Dingle – An Daingean
- Irish Grid Reference
- Bemposta
- native label
- Daingean Uí Chúis
- historic county
- County Kerry
- different from
- Dingle
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- History
- Second Desmond Rebellion
- Walled town and chartered borough
- Linen
- Fishing
- Education
- Places of interest
- Sport
- Transport
- Name
- People
- Climate
- See also
- References
- External links
Dingle ( or Daingean Uí Chúis, meaning "fort of Ó Cúis") is a town in County Kerry in the south-west of Ireland. The only town on the Dingle Peninsula (known in Irish as Corca Dhuibhne), it sits on the Atlantic coast, about southwest of Tralee and northwest of Killarney. Principal industries in the town are tourism, fishing and agriculture: Dingle Mart (livestock market) serves the surrounding countryside. The town is located in the Barony of Corkaguiny (the name 'Corkaguiny' being the anglicised version of Corca Dhuibhne).
In 2022, Dingle had a population of 1,671, a decrease from the 2016 census, and the oldest average age for a town in Ireland (44.4 years). Situated in a Gaeltacht region, 13.7% of the population spoke Irish on a daily basis in 2016. An adult Bottlenose dolphin named Fungie had been courting human contact in Dingle Bay since 1983 but disappeared in 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dingle/Daingean Uí Chúis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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