Ballyferriter
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Kerry |
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| • Script error: No such module "Lang". | Kerry |
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Script error: No such module "Lang". (Irish, meaning 'Ferriter's Townland' Script error: No such module "IPA".) unofficially anglicised as Ballyferriter, or also known as Script error: No such module "Lang".,[1] is a Gaeltacht village in County Kerry, Ireland. It is in the west of the Script error: No such module "Lang". (Dingle) peninsula and according to the 2002 census, about 75% of the town's population speak the Irish language on a daily basis. The village is named after the Norman-Irish Script error: No such module "Lang". family who settled in Script error: No such module "Lang". in the late medieval period. The last Chief of the Name was the seventeenth-century Bard and leader Script error: No such module "Lang". who was executed. The older Irish name for the village Script error: No such module "Lang". ('the little dairy place') is still used locally.
The village lies at the base of Croaghmarhin Hill near Script error: No such module "Lang". (formerly also called Smerwick Harbour) on the Dingle Peninsula, on the R559 regional road which loops around the west of the peninsula, beginning and ending in Dingle Town. It has three pubs and one hotel. It also has a school, church, museum, Script error: No such module "Lang".,[3] the offices of the local co-op (Script error: No such module "Lang".[4]) and a Script error: No such module "Lang". station.[citation needed]
The village is busier throughout the summer due to an influx of Irish students, when both teenagers and adults attend Irish language courses in the local national school and other venues in the village as part of the local Irish colleges. University College Cork also owns a house there that facilitates a year-long study course for students at a higher level.[5]
Between Ballyferriter and Smerwick Harbour is Script error: No such module "Lang". (the Fort of Gold), an Iron Age promontory fort, which was the location of the Siege of Smerwick, a massacre in 1580. A 600-strong Spanish and Italian Papal invasion force which had come as part of the Second Desmond Rebellion of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald were besieged and massacred by the English crown forces of Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton.[citation needed]
Under a place-names order in 2004, the Minister for the Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". declared that the Irish place-name (Script error: No such module "Lang".) must be used on maps and signage.[2]
Notable people
Patrick Edward Connor. Irish American U.S Army general notorious for his massacres against Native Americans during the Indian Wars in the American Old West was born in Ballyferriter.
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Baile an Fheirtéaraigh / Ballyferriter". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) 2004" (PDF). Government of Ireland.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne / West Kerry Museum".
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne Teo, Corca Dhuibhne, Daingean, West Kerry". www.cfcd.ie. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Dún Chíomháin". University College Cork. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
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