- 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:- 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:- The Vale of Tralee: A Summary of the Results of Archaeological Excavations in advance of the N22 Tralee bypass/Tralee to Bealagrellagh road (Patricia Long)
- New discoveries near Kilflynn, Co. Kerry (Patricia Long)
- A possible prehistoric ceremonial avenue at Ballingowan, Tralee (Colm Moloney)
- On the right side of the tracks: Archaeological excavations at Annascaul, Co. Kerry (Rob O'Hara with Sebastien Joubert, Stuart Reilly, Ellen O'Carroll and Nikolah Gilligan)
- A Kerryman condemned at the Old Bailey 1685 (Donal Murphy)
- A chain of secondary education: From the last Franciscans of Muckross to today's St Brendan's College (Denis O'Donoghue)
- A Quest for Justice: Kerry farm labourers 1870-1900 (Pádraig G. Lane)
- Castleisand - Home of the Moonlighters (John Roche)
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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:- 'The First Earl of Desmond as Other than 'Rebellious': A Challenge to G.O. Sayles' (Michael (M.J.) Fitzgerald)
- An Ancient Paddle From near Knocknagoshel (Griffin Murray)
- Piaras Feirtéir (Noel E. French)
- The Tralee Workhouse and the Poor Laws 1832-1850 (John F. Doyle)
- Records of St. James' Church and Graveyard, Ballyheigue (Bryan MacMahon)
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Articles featured:- A Hot Property: The Morphology and Archaeology of the Irish Fulachta Fiadh (Emer Dennehy)
- A critique of the evidence recently presented for the existence of the Viking Maritime Havens and associated Rural Settlement in Ireland (Michael Gibbons and Myles Gibbons)
- Kerry Place-names in two Twelfth-Century poems (Diarmuid O Murchadha)
- The Earl of Desmond's Navy (Niall O'Brien)
- A history of bog butter finds in Kerry since 1854 and some recent Radiocarbon Dating evidence (Chris Synnott)
- A Sweathouse at Caherlehillian, Co. Kerry (Aidan Harte)
- Ralph Sneyd and Muckross: An English Squire who aspired to ownership of Muckross House and Muckross Estate 1890-1902 (Sean Ryan)
- Sloinnteoireacht: John Lyne’s Collection of Sliabh Luachra Genealogies (Tomás G Ó Canann)
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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:- Some notes on the names of six Kerry Mountains (Paul Tempan)
- Sir William Herbert's 'Description of Munster': An annotated colonial text (Claudia J. Young-Palmer)
- Birth, Marriage and Death notices of Kerry’s Estated Gentlemen, principally from the Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras (Gerard O’Carroll)
- The Godfrey Estate during The Great Famine (John Knightly)
- Some notable Kerry Clergymen in the established Church of Ireland (Gerard O’Carroll)
- Lindsey Talbot Crosbie of Ardfert: Campaigner for conciliation (Bryan McMahon)
- The Rev. Robert Martin Hilliard (1904 -1937) (John Corcoran)
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Articles featured:- The Story of Dún an Óir and a Vindication of Sir Walter Raleigh (Valerie Mck. Bary)
- 'Cloigne: Cnámha agus Creatlacha'-An Teampall Bán sa Traidisiún Béil (Seán mac an tSithigh)
- Lordship and Colony in Anglo-Norman Kerry, 1177-1400 (Paul MacCotter)
- The Killarney Deer Forests Clearances -Fact or Fiction? (Seán Ryan)
- Hedge Schools of Kerry (Tony Lyons)
- Our Onomastic Heritage: The Gaelic System of Personal Names, Surnames and Tribal Names - Categories and Sources (Paul David Tempan)
- The Ferriters of Kerry: Addenda and Corrigenda (Paul MacCotter)
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Articles featured:- George Sandes of Listowel: Land Agent, Magistrate and Terror of North Kerry (Bryan Mac Mahon)
- The Last Voyage of the Florence Graham (Jim Condon)
- Kerry Veterans in the Invalides (Eoghan Ó hAnnracháin)
- Sliocht Cormaic Mhic Cártaigh Dúna Goill (Tomás G. Ó Canann)
- Blennerville 1800-1853: The Shifting Fortunes of a Kerry Village (Marie MacSweeney)
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Articles featured:- Dorchadas gan Phan - The History of Ceallúnaigh in Co. Kerry (Emer A. Dennehy)
- Pádraig O’Keeffe: The Last Fiddle Master (Pat Feeley)
- An Excavation of a Crematorium at Rockfield, Co. Kerry (Tracy Collins)
- The Ferriters of Kerry (Paul MacCotter)
- The Tralee Election of 1832 (Bob Fitzsimons)
- Eleanor Godfrey - A Tradition of Landlord Philanthropy (John G. Knightly)
- The Tralee Labourers Strike of 1896: An Episode in Ireland's 'New Unionism' (Paul Dillion)
- Revolutionary Movements in Kerry 1913-23: A Social & Political Analysis (cntd.) (Kieran McNulty)
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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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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:- 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:- 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)
