- A River Runs Through It: The Archaeology of the N69 Listowel Bypass, Co. Kerry (Tony Bartlett and Ross Drummond)
- Sickness, Death and Burial in Tralee Workhouse, 1844-1847 (Bryan MacMahon)
- A Recently Identified Petroglyph Panel at Gabhlán Thoir near Lios Póil on the Dingle Peninsula (Aoibheann Lambe)
- A Blacksmith's Forge on the Turnpike Road: Excavations of the N72 Stagmount Bends Road (Tony Bartlett and Ross Drummond)
- Cill Áirne agus Oireachtas na nGael 1914-1918 (Tomás B Ó Luanaigh)
- 'This Modern Tell': John Townsend Trench (1834-1909), Kerry's Controversial Cycling Pioneer (Brian Griffin)
Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society
The Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society is issued free to members and is published annually.
It generally contains a variety of academic articles on topics relating to the History and archaeology of the County and nearby regions. It also sometimes carries articles about the exploits of Kerry people outside of their own home area. It is highly regarded, both at home and abroad.
The Journal is noted for the fact that it contains an index in every issue. Illustrations have always been included in articles, where relevant, and in recent years colour has begun to appear within the pages, making the Journal even more attractive.
The current editor, Tony Bergin, welcomes contributions in all relevant areas, which can be sent directly to him at . Please review Guidelines for Article submission and then contact the editor directly with your proposal.
The complete index to the articles published in our Journals may be searched by entering a keyword/author’s name/title in the above search box or by clicking on this link.
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Articles featured:- Daniel O’Connell’s cultural links to the Sea: Evidence from ship iconography and writing on plaster at Derrynane (Dr Connie Kelleher)
- The ringfort of Lissaniska and the petty kingdom of Aes Coinchind within Corcu Duibne (Dr. Paul MacCotter)
- ‘We are almost on the lip of the volcano’ The Blueshirts in County Kerry, 1933-35 (Owen O’Shea)
- Corca Dhuibhne agus Feachtais Dhónaill Uí Chonaill, 1823-43 (Dr. Muiris Bric, MRIA)
- Early to Late Bronze Age fulachtaí fia at Woodview Place, Tarbert, Co. Kerry (Graham Hull and Damien McCarthy)
- Poems on the Fitzmaurices of Lixnaw (Dr Deirdre Nic Chárthaigh)
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Articles featured:- Regular Contributors to the Journal of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, 1968 to 2020 (Paul McCotter)
- Past lifeways between the Maine and the Laune: Archaeological excavations on the N70 Kilderry Bends Road Improvement Scheme (Kerri Cleary, Ed Lyne and John Olney)
- The Castle of the Island (Robert McGuire)
- Recent rock art discoveries in Kerry: An exponential rise in the known numbers of rock art panels (Aoibheann Lambe)
- Luíochán Lios Póil (Micheál Ó Moráin)
- A quintet of editors - celebrating the first 50 years of the publication of this Journal (Isabel Bennett)
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Articles featured:- The Coast Guard on the Dingle Peninsula (Ted Creedon)
- From Kerry to Gloucestershire - The Stoughton family of Ballyhorgan. Gortigrenane and Owlpen (Fergal Browne)
- Travel, Transport and the Roads in the Knockanore Area (Micheál Ó Ciosáin and Noel Kissane)
- Bonane Heritage Park Dugout Boat Project (Dr. Niall Gregory)
- The Irish Transport & General Workers’ Union in Kerry, 1909-1930 (Francis Devine)
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Articles featured:- The Early Years of Tralee Workhouse, 1840-45 (Bryan MacMahon)
- Transience and Permanency - Four Thousand years of settlement on the Dingle Peninsula: Archaeological Excavations near Lispole and Camp in advance of the N86 Road Scheme (2015-2016 Bruce Sutton)
- Kerry's Jewish People (Lorcan Harney)
- 'Between a rock and a hard place' - The Limerick Jail Escape (Martin Moore)
- The Irish Transport & General Workers’ Union in Kerry, 1909-1930 (Francis Devine)
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Articles featured:- Medicine and Society in 19th Century Kerry - A Life of Francis Crumpe, M.D. (Bob Fitzsimons)
- Seán Ó Súilleabháin (1903-96), Múinteoir agus Cartlannai Béaloidis (Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin)
- Excavations of Clocáin in Glin North Townland, Co. Kerry (Isabel Bennett)
- The ‘Glattjoch-Chapel in Honour of St. Virgil’- An Irish Oratory in Austria/Central Europe!? (Volker Fauler)
- Daniel O’Connell: The Counsellor, and Our Present Constitutional Disposition (Justice Hugh O’Flaherty)
- Review: To Make the Stones Sing, Poems by Paddy Bushe: A Perspective (Micheál Ó Fionnáin)
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Articles featured:- Excavations at Reask (Thomas Fanning)
- The Execution of the Earl of Desmond, 1468, (Art Cosgrove)
- The Fall of the House of Desmond (Sister Margaret MacCurtain)
- Dr Dermot Lyne: An Irish Catholic Landlord in Cork and Kerry under the Penal Laws (Gerard J. Lyne)
- Nineteenth-century Settlements in theLesser Blasket Islands (Joan Stagles)
- Richard Griffith and the Roads of Kerry 1 (Seán Ó Lúing)
- A Census of the Parishes of Prior and Killemlagh, December 1834 (Pádraig de Brún)
- Scéal Gaeilge ón Tóchar (Padraig de Brún)
- Two Prehistoric Objects from Killarney in Buckinghamshire County Museum, Aylesbury (Peter Harbison)
- A Neglected Sidelight on the Last Years of Ardfert Corporation (Michael Dolley)
- 'Some Medieval Sculpture in Kerry’ - additional notes (Peter Harbison)
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Articles featured:- The Souterrain in Kealduff Upper Townland, Glenbeigh - Michael Ryan
- Fulacht Fiadh at Rath More Townland, Rathmore - Michael Ryan
- Franciscan Friaries in Pre-reformation Kerry - Katherine Walsh
- The Mac Finings Duibh O'Sullivans of Tuosist and Bearhaven - Gerard J. Lyne
- Dr Nicholas Madgett's Constitutionalists Ecclesiastica, 1758 - Rev. Michael Manning
- Richard Griffith and the Road of Kerry II - Sean Ó Lúing
- John Windele's Visit to Skellig Michael in 1851 - Peter Harbison
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Articles featured:- Rickard O'Connell (1572-1653) (Rev. Kieran O’ Shea)
- Humfrey Owen’s Account of the Seigniory of Castleisland in 1686 (Rev. Kieran O’ Shea)
- Land Tenure in Kenmare, Bonane and Tuosist, 1720-70 (Gerard J. Lyne)
- The Dingle Train in the Life and Lore of Corkaguiny (David Rowlands and Walter McGrath)
- Seán Óg Ó Caomhánagh (Sean Ó Lúing)
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Articles featured:- The Pattern of Kilmakilloge (Gerard J. Lyne)
- The Godfrey Papers: Abstracts and Deeds, 1840-1848 (Valerie McK. Bary and Jane Spring)
- The Kenmare Estates during the nineteenth century (James S. Donnelly, Jr)
- Kerry Diocese in 1890: Bishop Coffey’s Survey (Pádraig de Brún)
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Articles featured:- The Kenmare Estates during the nineteenth century (James S. Donnelly, Jr.)
- The Godfrey Papers: Abstracts of Deeds, 1850-1858 (Valerie McK. Bary and Jane Spring)
- Kilmakilloge: Its Patron Saint and Antiquities (Gerard J. Lyne)
- Surrender of Armada Vessel near Tralee; Exploration of the State Papers (Brendan G. McCarthy)
- Medieval Regionalism in North County Kerry: A Region Anatomised (Patrick J. O’Connor)
- Some Early Historic Cross-forms and Related Motifs from the Iveragh Peninsula (John Sheehan)
- Brian Ó Ceallaigh, Tomás Ó Criomthain and Sir Roger Casement (Muiris MacConghail)
- Two Kerry Lead-silver Mines: Kenmare and Castlemaine (Des Cowman)
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Selection of articles reproduced from the KERRY ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, published between 1908 - 1920 General Index to Journals 1 - 29 Articles featured:- The Civil Journey - A Cromwellian Record (Matthew J. Byrne)
- Some Holy Wells in Valencia and Portmagee (M. J. Delap)
- Tobar na Molt (Bligh Talbot-Crosbie, Esq)
- Lislaughtin Abbey (M.G. McGelligott, F.R.C.S.)
- The Skelligs (S.M)
- Kilcrohane (B.B.G.)
- Ballycarbery Castle (S.M.)
- Maum-An-Afrinn (S.M.)
- The Post Reformation Bishops of Kerry (Rev J.C. O’Ryan, O.P.)
- Distinguished Kerrymen (James O’Neill)
- Some Old Tralee Notes (S.M.)
- “Puck” Fair (S.M.)
- A Great Kerry Physician (S.M.)
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Articles featured:- Revolutionary Movements in Kerry from 1913 to 1923: A Social and Political Analysis (Kieran McNulty)
- Kerry Militia Courts Martial: Proceedings of Regismental Courts Martial of the Kerry Militia 1808-1811 (Jane Spring and Valerie McK. Bary)
- The Trant Family: KERRY ARCHEOLOGICAL MAGAZINE, Vol. 11, No. 2, March 1914, 237-262 (SM)
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Articles featured:- Smuggling in Dingle in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Dr Conor Brosnan)
- A Case Study for Landscape Applications of Drone and Photogrammetry Techniques: Faha and Caherconree Hillforst, Co. Kerry (Dr James O'Driscoll)
- Bád na nGort nDubh (Dáithí de Mórdha)
- Quakers in Kerry during the Famine (Kay Caball)
- Pettiocaot Government? The borough of Dingle during the 1770's (Dr Tony Barnard)
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Articles featured:- Helping the Stones to Speak: The Corca Dhuibhne 3D community project (Isabel Bennett, Nora White and Gary Devlin)
- An Ogham stone in the Black Valley (Fionnbarr Moore)
- References to Thomas Ashe in the Bureau of Military History Witness Statements (Tony Bergin)
- Townland, ‘Gneeve’ and ‘Cos’; Land taxes and ‘Cows’ grass’ (JF Collins)
- Íochtar Cua & the Stone Rows of Kerry (Michael Connolly)
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Articles featured:- The Earlier Geraldine Knights of Kerry (Paul MacCotter)
- Ardfert witnesses at the Trial of Roger Casement (Helen O’Carroll)
- ‘For Having Robbed His Ship On The High Seas’, Tomás Maol Ó Cearna, John D. Nagle and a Blasket Crew in Belfast (Dáithí de Mórdha)
- Glanbane Hillfort and the Bronze Age in Kerry (William O’Brien, James O’Driscoll and Nick Hogan)
- Law and Disorder, Listowel Union 1845-1852 (John Pierse and Martina Flynn)
- The Desmond Wars -The Beginning of the End of the Gaelic Order (Elizabeth & Tigh O’Donoghue Ross)
- The Killing of Sir Arthur Vicars, April 1921: An Exceptional Case?(Conor Joy)
- Miscellanea: 1. Holy Cross Church Kenmare 150: Review (Séamus Mac Gabhann)
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Articles featured:- The Famine Journal of Lieutenant H.N. Greenwell, 1846-7 (Bryan MacMahon)
- An Investigation of Turf-Cutting Language and Practices Associated with East Limerick / North Kerry and Scotland (John A. Phayer)
- The Kerry Days of the Knights Hospitaller (Amb. (ret.) Francis M. O’Donnell, KM)
- Cork Mission to Peru 1965-2015: Golden Jubilee Reflection(An Canónach Tomás Ó Luanaigh)
- The Keys of the Kingdom: The Kerry Sentinel, its Commercial & Political rivals (Patrick Fitzgerald)
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Articles featured:- A Tale of Two Cathedrals: Aghadoe and Arfdert - 12th Century Religious Reform (Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
- Historical Fisheries: Irish Pilchard Fishery and Historical Fish Harvesting and Processing Methods, Fish Products and Consumption (Liam Downey and Ingelise Stuijts)
- The Copper Mines of Killarney (Des Cowman)
- Fundraising in an Irish Provincial Town: A Story from the 19th Century (J.M. Feheney)
- ‘De Bello Clerico’: Fr Batt O’Connor’s attack on the Evangelical Missionaries (Hugh O’Reilly)
- Seachtain na Cásca 1916 I gCiarraíl (Pádraig Ó Siochfhradha, An Seabhac (in eagar ag Feargal Mac Amhlaoibh)
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Articles featured:- The Coming of the Gael: How and why one saga of Invasion became Three - All Roads Lead to Kerry (Tighe O’Donoghue/Ross)
- Exploring the evidence for Early Medieval Pilgrimage at Kilcolman (Louise Nugent)
- James Butler, 3rd Earl of Ormond, and Catherine Fitzgerald concerning W.F. Butler’s treatise on ‘An Irish legend of the origins of the Barons of Cahir (Glen Paul Hammond)
- Captain Right: The Rightboy Movement of the Late 18th Century (Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
- ‘De Bello Clerico’: Fr Batt O’Connor’s attack on the Evangelical Missionaries (Hugh O’Reilly)
- Anáil an Bhlascaoid Mhóir as Shaothar Sheoirse Mhic Thomáis (Aogán Ó hIarlaithe)
- The Sandmen and their Sandboats in Kerry's Agri and Maritime History (Tomás B. Ó Luanaigh)
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Articles featured:- Rock Art and the Kerry-Galicia Connection (Muiris O’Sullivan)
- A Bronze Age landscape at Farranstack, Lisselton, Co. Kerry (Marion Dowd)
- Clusach Ó Failbhe, ‘Bothar na Scairte’ and Church Island: Memories of Tsunamis in Kerry? (Alan R. Hayden)
- Pluais Na Scríob: An Analysis of the Glanrastel Inscriptions (Anneli O'Neil)
- An Early Medieval Horizontal Mill at Aghacurreen, Co. Kerry (Tony Bartlett)
- The Earl of Essex’s descent into Munster (Valerie M. Bary)
- Fr Batt O’Connor and the Killorglin Tithe War 1835 (Hugh O'Reilly)
- Some Occupiers and Tenants of Lower Castle Street, Tralee, 1835-1955 (Mark Codd)
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Articles featured:- St Lachtain of Lislaughtin: The Cork Connection (Donal Murphy)
- Human Tapeworm Infestation in Medieval Kerry (Catryn Power)
- Lixnaw and the Earls of Kerry (John Knightly)
- The Grave-stone of Thomas Crosbie alias Godly, 1767 (Jude O'Gorman)
- The Genesis of Killarney National Park (Sean Ryan)
- Blasket Island Life and Work, 1919-23 (Alf MacLochlainn)
- Kerry. Case Study: A review of the 17 and 31 July 1901 County Kerry Caherciveen District Council meetings (Mary McGillicuddy)
- Politics or Play? The Tralee GAA Sports of 1885 & the fight for Irish Athletics (Richard McElligott)
- Records of St James' Church & Graveyard, Ballyheigue Addenda & Corrigenda (Bryan MacMahon)
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Articles featured:- A consideration of late Mesolithic Settlement on Ross Island, Killarney National Park (Michael Gibbons, Jim Higgins, Myles Gibbons)
- Fionnan Kerry place-names (Paul Tempan)
- Properties in Dingle granted to the Duke of Ormond in 1668 (Conleth Manning)
- Dun an Óir 1580: The potential for intact Siege Archaeology (Damian Shiels)
- An Italian Account of the Siege and Massacre at Smerwick (Aoibheann Mullan)
- ‘My Dear Husband’: Kerry convicts and their families (Perry McIntyre)
- Port na bPucaí - The Fairy Music of The Blaskets (Feargal Mac Amhlaoibh)
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Articles featured:- Archaeological Sites on the route of the N21 Castleisland to Abbeyfeale road improvement scheme (Graham Hull and Kate Taylor. With contributions from Sían Anthony Michelle Comber, Lucy Cramp, Steve Ford and Lynne Keys)
- Materiality and Meaning: Ogham Stone Monuments of the Dingle Peninsula (Niall Kenny)
- An Daingean and Dingle: What’s in a name? (Paul McCotter)
- An Teampall Bán sa Traidisiún Béil: Addendum (Seán Mac an tSithigh)
- Politics, war and revolution: The Kenmare district 1916-1923 (Claire Turvey)
- Another shipwreck at Inch (Jim Condon)
- Review Article: Two important publications on the archaeology of Co. Kerry (Michael Gibbons)
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Articles featured:- Archaeological Investigations at Caherquin, near Ballyferriter, Co. Kerry (Isabel Bennett)
- A Few impressions of Ross Castle (Sharon Wells)
- The Earthen Barrows of the Lee Valley, Tralee, County Kerry (Michael Connolly)
- Holy Wells and other sites of Pilgrimage within a portion of East Kerry (Patricia O’Hare)
- A Post-Mortem on the Protestant Crusade in Dingle (Micheál Ó Mainnín)
- Suffolk Summer School : The Desmond Brass at Euston (Amy Louise Harris and Paul Cockerham)
- Ról na nBan i Malartú Teanga (Bríd Ní Mhóráin)
- Women's Lives at the Time of Seán Ó Conaill (Bríd Ní Mhoráin)
- An Unidentified Late 18th Century Shipwreck in Derrynane Harbour (Colin Breen)
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Articles featured:- A Survey of the Promontory Forts of the Kerry Peninsulas (Markus Redmond)
- Kerry's Forgotten Historian - Jeremiah King (Edmund Moriarty)
- Primary Education of the Great Blasket Island 1864-1940 (Dr M. Nic Craith)
- Notes on the Region of Barnashaw, its Population, and Routes through it in Historic and Pre-historic Times (Bill Quirke)
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Articles featured:- A Brief Survey of the Typical Vernacular Housing of a Portion of East Kerry (Patricia O’Hare).
- Guardians of the East Road at the West End of the World (Ignatius Fennessy O.F.M.)
- Thoughts on the Early Christian Church (Donncha Ó Conchúir)
- Old Ireland Lent this Champion to the Australian Imperial Force (Richard E. Reid)
- An Leana Mór: From Woodland to Townland on the Trinity College Estate (Michael H. O'Connor)
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Articles featured:- Fionnán Enclosures: Aspects of Traditional Land use in S. Kerry (Ann O’ Sullivan & John Sheehan)
- An Iron Sickle from a Previously Unrecorded Souterrain at Beaufort, Co. Kerry (Michael Connolly)
- Archaeological Monitoring of the Dingle Sewerage Scheme, Dingle, Co. Kerry (Richard Crumlish)
- William S.Trench & Post-Famine Emigration from Kenmare to America 1850-55 (Gerard Lyne)
