Killarney Attractions

Killarney (Cill Airne, "Church of the Sloe") lies near the coast in the southwest corner of Ireland. Nearby lie the well-known Killarney Lakes.

The beauty of the surrounding area and the wide range of recreation and leisure activities it offers make Killarney one of Ireland's most popular tourist centers. Once a typical little country town but now largely given over to the tourist trade, Killarney itself has little in the way of sights.

The Roman Catholic cathedral, St Mary's (by Pugin, 1855) and the Protestant parish church, also St Mary's, are both in Early English style.

Opposite the Franciscan church (1860), near the station, stands a monument to the "four poets of Kerry" (17th and 18th C.): Pierce Ferriter (d. 1653), Geoffrey O'Donoughue (d. 1677), Aodhagan O'Rahilly (d. 1728) and Eoghan Ruadh O'Sullivan (d. 1784).