14 Facts About Killarney

Killarney is a town in County Kerry, southwestern Ireland.

Killarney won the Best Kept Town award in 2007, in a cross-border competition jointly organised by the Department of the Environment and the Northern Ireland Amenity Council.

Killarney featured prominently in early Irish history, with religious settlements playing an important part of its recorded history.

Killarney was heavily involved in the Irish War of Independence.

Killarney benefited greatly from the coming of the railway in July 1853.

Related searches

At the time he was writing, tours of the Ring of Kerry were already an industry and Killarney was considered the starting point of the 175-kilometre circuitous route.

Killarney was fascinated by the horses' endurance on the two-day trip, and leaves clear advice for other travellers;.

Killarney is served by National Primary Route N22 ; the National Secondary Routes N72 and the N71 .

Kerry Airport, in Farranfore between Tralee and Killarney, provides a number of air services with connecting trains running from Farranfore railway station to Killarney railway station.

Originally the club played in the centre of Killarney, but have since moved to a modern facility in the Woodlawn area of the town.

Killarney has three Gaelic football clubs: Dr Crokes, Killarney Legion and Spa.

Killarney Racecourse is located just outside the town and holds flat and national hunt meetings.

Killarney appears in "How Can You Buy Killarney, " written by Kennedy, Steels, Grant and Morrison, and recorded by Joseph Locke, among others.

In 2013 Colin O'Sullivan published a novel called Killarney Blues, set in his native town and for which he was awarded the "Prix Mystere de la critique" in 2018.