The site has a number of medieval church ruins, the earliest building being from the 12th century, and an ogham stone.
Located in the village of Ardfert on the Tralee to Ballyheigue road. Ardfert is a parish in the barony of Clanmaurice, County Kerry, Ireland. ... Tralee (Trá Lí) in Irish (population circa 25,000 in 2002) is the county town of County Kerry in Ireland. ...
The parish church serves as the cathedral, and is the relic of a very extensive edifice, the rest of which was demolished in the wars of 1641.
The area of the cathedral is crowded with tombs, on one of which is the effigy of a bishop rudely sculptured in relief.
Ardfert is so near the sea, that single trees, or even rows, are destroyed by the wind; yet there are fine plantations in the grounds of the late Earl of Glandore.
Ardfert is a parish in the Barony of Clanmaurice, County Kerry, Ireland, anciently in the territory of Ui Fearba/Hy Ferba, of which the Leanes were once the Gaelic Lords, until the Normans came.
Ardfert is the home of St. Brendan's ArdfertCathedral, which was destroyed in the War of 1641, and the birth place of St.
The medieval cathedral, St. Brendan's, and associated churches, Temple na Hoe (Church of the young Virgin) and Temple na Griffin, have become a major tourist heritage attraction in the Kerry area due to their central location.
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