Waterville (An Coireán in Irish) is a town in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland, situated on the west coast of Ireland, on the Iveragh peninsula. The town is sited on a narrow isthmus, with Lough Currane on the east side of the town, and Ballinskelligs Bay on the west, and the Currane River connecting the two. The town name in Irish refers to the river, while the English refers to the town's situation. The N70 Ring of Kerryroute passes through the town.
CountyKerry (Irish: CiarraÃ) is a county in the southwest of Ireland, in the Munster province of the Republic of Ireland, the county is informally referred to as The Kingdom.
The county is bordered by County Limerick (east) and County Cork (South-east).
The county is bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the north by the River Shannon, the longest river in Ireland.
m., the county being the fifth of the Irish counties in extent.
BOROUGH (A.S. nominative burh, dative byrig, which produces some of the place-names ending in bury, a sheltered or fortified place, the camp of refuge of a tribe, the stronghold of a chieftain; cf.
Kerry suffered frequently from invasions of the Danes in the 9th and loth centuries, until they were finally overthrown at the See also:
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