Kenmare
Sign in to saveKenmare () is a small town in the south of County Kerry, Ireland. The name Kenmare is the anglicised form of Ceann Mara, meaning "head of the sea", referring to the head of Kenmare Bay. It is also a townland and civil parish.
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- Town
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- Kenmare
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- ga
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- Henry Street, Kenmare
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- Ireland
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- right
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- Location in Ireland
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- Ireland
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- Munster
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- County
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- County Kerry
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- 2022
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- 2,566
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Kenmare () is a small town in the south of County Kerry, Ireland. The name Kenmare is the anglicised form of Ceann Mara, meaning "head of the sea", referring to the head of Kenmare Bay. It is also a townland and civil parish.
==Location== Kenmare is located at the head of Kenmare Bay (where it reaches the farthest inland), sometimes called the Kenmare River, where the Roughty River (An Ruachtach) flows into the sea, and at the junction of the Iveragh Peninsula and the Beara Peninsula. It is also located near the MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Mangerton Mountain and Caha Mountains and is a popular hillwalking destination. Nearby towns and villages are Tuosist, Ardgroom, Glengarriff, Kilgarvan, Killarney, Templenoe and Sneem.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kenmare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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