Ballyferriter

Coordinates: 52°10′31″N 10°24′50″W / 52.175195°N 10.414009°W / 52.175195; -10.414009
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Baile an Fheirtéaraigh
Ballyferriter
Village
Ballyferriter, County Kerry, Ireland
Ballyferriter, County Kerry, Ireland
Baile an Fheirtéaraigh is located in Ireland
Baile an Fheirtéaraigh
Baile an Fheirtéaraigh
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 52°10′31″N 10°24′50″W / 52.175195°N 10.414009°W / 52.175195; -10.414009
CountryIreland
ProvinceMunster
CountyCounty Kerry
Government
 • Dáil ÉireannKerry
Irish Grid ReferenceQ352044
As this is a Gaeltacht, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh is the only official name.[1][2]

Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (

Norman-Irish Feiritéar family who settled in Ard na Caithne in the late medieval period. The last Chief of the Name was the seventeenth-century Bard and leader Piaras Feiritéar
who was executed. The older Irish name for the village An B[h]uailtín ("the little dairy place") is still used locally.

The village lies at the base of Croaghmarhin Hill near Cuan Ard na Caithne (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, Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne,[3] the offices of the local co-op (Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne[4]) and a Garda 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

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 Gaeltacht, Éamon Ó Cuív declared that the Irish place-name (Baile an Fheirtéaraigh) must be used on maps and signage.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "Baile an Fheirtéaraigh / Ballyferriter". logainm.ie. Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
  2. ^ a b "An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) 2004" (PDF). Government of Ireland.
  3. ^ "Dingle Peninsula Museum website". westkerrymuseum.com.
  4. ^ "Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne Teo, Corca Dhuibhne, Daingean, West Kerry". www.cfcd.ie. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  5. ^ "Dún Chíomháin". University College Cork. Retrieved 2 November 2023.
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