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Place details
- Region
- Munster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 558
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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- Instance of
- village
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- Munster
- Population
- 157
- Area
- 1.03
- Elevation
- 20.978
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Firies, Church of St Gertrude - geograph.org.uk - 266994.jpg
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- Firies
- historic county
- County Kerry
- native label
- Na Foidhrí
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Firies ( officially Fieries; ) is a village in County Kerry, Ireland in the historical barony of Magunihy. It is situated midway between the hub towns of Killarney (14.5 km), Tralee (16 km), Castleisland (16 km) and Killorglin (13 km). It is on the R561 road between Farranfore and Castlemaine. The population at the 2022 census was 573. There are two principal rivers, the Maine and its chief tributary, the Brown Flesk.
==History== Evidence of ancient settlement in the area includes a number of ring fort, enclosure and holy well sites in the townlands of Firies and Killahane.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Firies” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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