Kerry takes its name from Ciarraí, ‘people of Ciar’, but has long been known simply as the Kingdom — a county so wild and apart that it was said to answer to no one.
Contae Chiarraí · The Kingdom · Munster
Kerry takes its name from Ciarraí, ‘people of Ciar’, but has long been known simply as the Kingdom — a county so wild and apart that it was said to answer to no one.
This is Skellig Michael, where monks built their beehive cells on a rock rising sheer from the Atlantic in the sixth century, and the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, home to Carrauntoohil, the highest peak in Ireland.
