The Kerry Magazine

The Kerry Magazine is an annual publication of the Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society. It was first published in 1989, when it was primarily intended as a newsletter to keep members abreast of activities within the Society.

This has grown over the years into a much-respected stand-alone publication, which provides a platform for both academics and non-academics to publish short articles, pertaining not only to archaeology/history but also to the wider culture and heritage of the County.

Articles submitted for consideration for publication by the editorial sub-committee of The Kerry Magazine, should be submitted by May 15 of any given year. We welcome short articles (maximum 2500 words) from both academics and non-academics related to any aspect of Kerry’s rich and diverse culture and heritage. Contributors are also required to submit appropriate illustrations and a brief biographical note for publication in our Contributors’ List.

For queries relating to The Kerry Magazine or for a copy of our Contributor’s Guidelines, please email

The complete index to the articles published in our magazine may be searched by entering a keyword/author’s name/title in the above search box, or downloaded here. Please note, there was no edition published in 2004.


Magazines Available to Purchase

    • President's Address (Marie O'Sullivan)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2017
    • Launch of The Kerry Magazine, No. 29, 2018, Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, Kerry Library HQ, Tuesday, November 28, 2017 (John Breen)
    • We Always Vote Redmond in This House (Dr Pat McCarthy)
    • The Rose of Tralee International Festival: Connecting the Global Irish Community since 1959 (John Drummey)
    • The Architecture and Landscape of Tralee Castle (Victoria McCarthy)
    • Siamsa Tíre – 50 Bliain ag Fás: From Fadó Fadó to Anam (Caitriona Fallon)
    • 10 Years of Tionól Mhic Easmainn (Dr Aoife Ní Chonchubhair)
    • John Francis Marshall Miles - Dingle Doctor, Magistrate and Humanitarian 1847-1912 (Dan Graham)
    • Views from the Sea: Four Little-known Images of Kerry Harbours in the 1630s (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • 1848 i gCiarraí agus in Iarthar Luimnighe (Pádraig Ó Concubhair)
    • Harry Clarke’s Windows for Diseart Chapel, Presentation Convent, Dingle (Dr Roisin Kennedy)
    • Phoenix Paradiso (John O’Connor)
    • Ancient Tomb - Youthful Imagination: Killaclohane Portal Tomb: An Innovative Approach to Heritage Education in Kerry (Claudia Köhler)
    • Christy O’Grady: Patriot, Prisoner and Professor (Jude O’Gorman)
    • 500 Years after Martin Luther: The Reformation and Its Legacy in Kerry (Venerable Simon J. Lumby)
    • Mallets and Clubs: Victorian Pastimes from the ‘Big House’ (Patricia O’Hare)
    • Anthony Trollope and Isaac Butt in Tralee Courthouse in 1849 (Bryan MacMahon)
    • The Harrington Brothers and Their Kerry Connections (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
    • ‘Women Voted Early and in Large Numbers’; Irishwomen, Activism, and the 1918 General Election (Dr Mary McAuliffe)
    • Farranfore: A Village on a Crossroads in the Centre of Kerry (Marie O’Sullivan)
    • Fr William Ferris’s History of BallymacElligott: The Book, the Bishop and the Ban (Brendan McCarthy)
    • Major Charles George Fairfield of Loyal Mount Eagle Lodge, Brosna, County Kerry (Tom Roche)
    • Royal Visit to Kerry - June 15, 2018General Data Protection Regulation Requirements
    • Obituaries
    • Contributors’ List
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2019
    • Kerry Publications September 2017 - October 2018
    • President’s Address (Marie O'Sullivan)
    • Hon. Secretary’s Report 2018
    • Maurice Neligan: A Labour Organiser in Kerry, 1918-1920 (Dr Paul Dillon)
    • Scartaglin: Area Mapping Surveys and Surrounding Place-name Definitions (Jerry Flynn)
    • Outpost of Empire-The Dingle Royal Constabulary Barracks, 1886-1922 (Dan Graham)
    • Mapping Kerry 450 Years Ago (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • From Kerry to Laois: The Return of the Seven Septs (Dr Michael Christopher Keane)
    • The Tomb in the Lab: A Major Science Week Event Exploring Killaclohane Portal Tomb (Claudia Köhler & Jemma O’Connell)
    • Corporal Thomas Joseph Murray and the Connaught Rangers Mutiny of 1920 (Bryan MacMahon)
    • Architecture Kerry 2018 (Victoria McCarthy)
    • Life on the Tearaght 1883 - 1886 (Gay McCarron)
    • A Description of Castleisland Castle by Sir William Herbert 1590 (Robert McGuire)
    • Faction Fighters of County Kerry (Seán Moraghan)
    • Saleen Pier (Pádraig Ó Concubhair)
    • Ryan’s Daughter in Dingle – A 50th Anniversary Recollection (John O’Connor)
    • The Visit of the Prince of Wales to Killarney – April 1858 (Dr Patricia O’Hare)
    • A Well-Travelled Uniform-The Life of Captain R. E. Palmer (Jude O’Gorman)
    • Cogadh Na Saoirse i gCiarraí Thiar (Noel O Murchú)
    • The Life and Times of James Boothby Roche MP for East Kerry and Great- Grandfather to Diana, Princess of Wales (Tom Roche)
    • James Kerin (1779-1848) Surgeon (Sylvia Turner)
    • Muckross Lichen Collections in the Natural History Museum, London (Roy Vickery)
    • Obituaries
    • Tralee Medieval Society
    • Contributors’ List
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2020
    • Kerry Publications October 2018 - September 2019
    • Membership Application Form
    • Call for Participation: The Young Kerry Archaeologists’ Club
    • President's Address (Marie O'Sullivan)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2016
    • Scoil Naomh Eoin Báiste, Lios Póil: Tomás Ághas Remembered: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme
    • Tralee 800 Conference, November 4-6, 2016 (Isabel Bennett)
    • Michael Glazier, Kerryman Extraordinare (Bryan MacMahon)
    • The Archaeology of Cosán na Naomh - The Saints' Road Pilgrim Path on the Dingle Peninsula (Isabel Bennett)
    • A Vicious Boycott, Firies, January 1886 - April 1888 (Gay McCarron)
    • Tomás Ághas Centenary 2017 (Tony Bergin)
    • Seán Ó Riada 1882-1967 Oileán Chiarraí agus Nua Eabhrac: Gaeilgeoir agus Poblachtánach (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
    • The Roman Catholic Chapel, Chapel Lane, Killarney (Connor Doolan)
    • An tAthair Máirtín Ó Mathúna Mártán Ó Mathghamhna 1879-1944 (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
    • The Anchors of the 1916 Gun-Running Ship Aud return to Tralee Bay after 100 years under the Sea - Part Two (Laurence Dunne)
    • The Palatines (Padraig Ó Conchubhair)
    • District Inspector Michael John Hunt of The Royal Irish Constabulary and Greys Lane, Dingle 1911-1915 (Dan Graham)
    • Boat building in Dingle (John O'Connor)
    • On the Road with the Kerry Junior Football Team: 1954 (Fr J. Anthony Gaughan)
    • The Gaelic Irish Chief: Past, Present & Future (Tighe & Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
    • Alexander Nimmo and the making of Knightstown on Valentia Island - A New Village in the 1830s (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • Dermot Browne’s Letters from the Western Front (Patricia O’Hare)
    • The Transplantation of the Laois Septs to Kerry and of their Descendants in Kerry over four Centuries (Dr Michael Keane)
    • Saint Moling - A Native of Brosna (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
    • The Ballyheigue Wreck, County Kerry (Dr Connie Kelliher)
    • Golden Jubilee Seminar: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society 1967 - 2017
    • Obituaries: Chris Nolan, Fr Gearóid Ó Donnchadha, Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2018
    • Contributor’s List
    • Kerry Publications October 2016-August 2017
    • President's Address (Maureen Hanafin)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2015
    • Knockaderry National School, Farranfore Remembers 1916: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme
    • Letters from Tomás Ághas while Imprisoned in the United Kingdom (Tony Bergin)
    • The Blackest Days of Black ’47 in Tralee (Bryan MacMahon)
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society - Early Days (Kathleen Browne)
    • Tochaltánna Bréachaí (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
    • A West Kerry Summer Diary, 1846 (Dr Marc Caball)
    • The Murder of John O’Connell Curtin: A 19th Century Tragedy at Castlefarm, Firies (Gay McCarron)
    • The Anchors of the 1916 Gun-Running Ship return to Tralee Bay after 100 years under the Sea (Laurence Dunne)
    • Casement in Kerry: A Revolutionary Journey (Helen O’Carroll)
    • The Life and Times of Captain Richard Edward Walter Burke 1893 - 1977 (Dan Graham)
    • Dingle Coastguard Station (John O’Connor)
    • Tralee 800 (John Griffin)
    • Brendan's Immrama - The Archaeological Evidence of the Irish Discovering America (Tighe & Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
    • Firies in 1916: The Story of Jim Riordan (Dr Tim Horgan)
    • Killarney’s Victorian Gardens (Patricia O'Hare)
    • Mapping Sliabh Luachra in the early-19th Century (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • The Royal Irish Constabulary Mutiny at Castleisland (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
    • Prince Geoffrey O’ Donoghue, Bard and Lord of the Glen, Killarney (Caroline Hurley)
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Celebrates 50th Anniversary (Marie O’Sulliva)n
    • Early-17th Century Piracy along the South-West Coast: The Kerry Connection (Dr Connie Kelliher)
    • Opening Address at the Roger Casement Autumn Gathering, September 4, 2015 (Celine Slattery)
    • Kerry 2016 Centenary Celebrations (Kate Kennelly)
    • Slí Bhréanáinn - In the footsteps of St Brendan from Fenit to Lerrig (St Brendan Heritage Committee, Fenit)
    • Historic Tralee: Site of Holy Cross Dominican Priory-Kerry County Council (Archaeology Department and Kerry County Museum)
    • Obituaries: Chris Nolan, Fr Gearóid Ó Donnchadha (Monsignor Pádraig Ó Fiannachta)
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2017
    • Contributor's List
    • Kerry Publications October 2016-August 2017
    • President's Address (Maureen Hanafin)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2014
    • Telling Time (Dr Michael Connelly)
    • A Special Curtin Scrapbook (Gay McCarron)
    • The Spaces of Irish Natural History: Maude Jane Delap, Valentia Island 1866-1953 (Dr Nessa Cronin)
    • Oisín Kelly’s Statue of Roger Casement (Bryan MacMahon)
    • Thomas F. Meagher and the Tricolour (Senator Mark Daly)
    • Dan O’Mahony 1862-1934, Poblachtánach, Moonlighter agus Sealgaire Afracánach (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
    • The Liberator’s Piper: Pádraig a' Chasúir Ó Súilleabháin (Seán Donnellly)
    • The O’Rahilly (Padraig Ó Conchubhair)
    • The Kerry Steamship - SS Derrymore and World War One (Dan Graham)
    • Fenit Lighthouse Part Two (Tommy O'Connor)
    • The Role of Women in Gaelic Society in the Middle-Ages (Grainne Henry)
    • The Indomitable Irishry (Tighe & Elizabeth O'Donoghue/Ross)
    • Fr John O’Sullivan 1807-1874 (Holy Cross 150 Group)
    • Con Keating: Personal and Political (Sarah O’Farrel)
    • Charting the Cycle Routes of County Kerry over 100 Years Ago - The Kerry Road Maps of R.J. Mecredy (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • Tenant Farmers Host Dinner for Henry Arthur Herbert of Muckross, December 27, 1849 (Patricia O’Hare)
    • The Tudor Conquest of Munster, 1565-1582Prof. Ben Kiernan (Tomás Ághas)
    • The Dublin Years (Micheál Ó Móráin)
    • Kerry Library Archives Collections: the 1916 Context (Michael Lynch)
    • The Arrest and Detention of Roger Casement in Kerry (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Programme 2016
    • Contributor’s List
    • Kerry Publications October 2014- September 2015
    • President's Address (Maureen Hanafin)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2013
    • 25 years of Archaeological Excavations in Kerry (Isabel Bennett)
    • Captain Flora Sandes of the Serbian Army (Bryan MacMahon)
    • Jeremiah Buckley Ballymacelligott First World War Veteran (Ethel Corduff)
    • An tAthair Máirtín Ó Mathúna / Mártán Ó Mathghamhna 1879-1944 (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
    • Cumann na mBan - Remembering the Women of South Kerry (Mark Daly)
    • Recruiting the Dead an oration delivered at TraleeTown Council Commemoration Ceremony in PáircAn Phiarsaigh, Tralee, April 20, 2014 (Helen O’Carroll)
    • Anti-Recruiting in Kerry 1903-1914 (Alan Drumm)
    • Fenit Lighthouse (Tommy O'Connor)
    • In Memory of my Father, Tom Finn 1927-2006 (Clodagh Finn)
    • Early Christianity in Kerry Eastern Coptic Influence Meets Druidic Philosophy (Tighe & Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
    • Andrew Carnegie, Peg, and the Dingle Carnegie Free Library (Dan Graham)
    • 50 Years of Heritage Interpretation at Muckross (Patricia O'Hare)
    • Humphrey “Free” Murphy Kerry's foremost Soldier during the Revolutionary Period (Tim Horgan)
    • Memories of a Rural Irish Sports Meeting (Jim O’Shea)
    • The “Sunny Side” of Early 20th Century Kerry (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • Milestones in the Policing of Tralee down through the Years (Donal O’Sullivan)
    • Valerie Bary A Tribute (Dr John Knightly)
    • Castleisland Through the Ages: A Brief Overview (Marie O'Sullivan)
    • Kerry Explorer Tom Crean comes to Knockaderry National School Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme (Claudia Köhler & Marie O’Sullivan)
    • Storytelling in Kerry (Ray O'Sullivan)
    • Forgotten Political Displays in Cahersiveen (Gerard Leen)
    • Reminiscence of a Childhood in Farranfore in the 1930s (Dr Dick Shanahan)
    • Tralee Soldiers in the Great War 1914-1918 (Russsell McMorran)
    • Former Editors
    • Contributor’s List
    • Kerry Publications October 2013-October 2014
    • President's Address (Tómas B. Ó Lunaigh)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2012
    • The Irish Harp-Official Symbol of Ireland: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme
    • Minard Castle (Tony Bergin)
    • The Eóganachts of Cashel in Kerry (Tighe & Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
    • In the Shadow of the School - Memories of Growing-up in Rural North Kerry in the 1950s (Dick Carmody)
    • Faill Móir - go - Freemantle: Na Finíní i gCiarraí 1867 (Breandán Ó Duinneacha)
    • Kenmare Remembers - The Headford Ambush, 1921 (Mark Daly)
    • Hugh O'Flaherty Memorial Society Retrace the World War II Rome Footsteps of the Monsignor October 8-12, 2012 (Jerry O'Grady)
    • The “Flying Huntsman” - A Limerick Paddle Steamer/Tugin Dingle Harbour1887 – 1892 (Dan Graham)
    • A Demolished Thatched Dwelling, from College Street, Killarney (Patricia O’Hare)
    • “The Gathering” and Kerry (John Griffin)
    • Founding of the Volunteers in Killarney 1913 (Tomás B. Ó Luanaigh)
    • Records of the “Victorian Internet” - Cable Charts showing South Kerry and the near Atlantic around 1900 (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Trip to Munich, June 8-15, 2013 (Peggy O’Shea)
    • Dennis Fenton: The Triple Olympic Champion from Baile an Chótaigh (Dr Tom Hunt)
    • Education in Kerry in 1831 (Donal J. O’Sullivan)
    • Geraldine Tralee Birth and Destruction of a Medieval Town (Claudia Kőhler)
    • East Kerry of the One Hundred Thousand Welcomes: A Diary of a Gathering Event (Marie O'Sullivan)
    • Jeremiah Purcell: A Tralee Deaf Man’s Life of Poverty and Crime (Cormac Leonard)
    • Féile na Cásca 1974-2013 Obair na Bunscoileanna Seandálaíocht agus Ealaíon “Mo Cheantar Féin” (Máire Uí Shíthigh & Isabel Bennett)
    • Napoleon, Wellington and Cantillon (Bryan McMahon)
    • Obituaries
    • Contributor’s List
    • Kerry Publications October 2012-September 2013
    • President's Address (Tómas B. Ó Lunaigh)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2011
    • Crossing The Generations - Part 2: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme 2012. Fossa National School
    • Puck Fair in Cinema and Television (Sean Moraghan)
    • Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne, Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Ballyferriter) (Isabel Bennet)
    • A Forgotten Scholar of Irish Annals (Dónal Murphy)
    • Nunneries in Ireland in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological Overview (Tracy Collins)
    • A Glimpse of Killarney Town during the Visit of Queen Victoria, August 1861 (Michael O’Connor & Daniel McCarthy)
    • Michael Collins, Currans: A Forgotten Kerry Olympian (Dr Helena Daly & Marie O’Sullivan)
    • Writers’ Writers’ WeekTommy (Frank O’Connor)
    • Currow Remembers the Sinking of the Titanic (Con Dennehy)
    • The Usurpers of West Munster: The O'Donoghues - Legend and Legacy (Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross)
    • The Age of Industry in Dingle Port 1880 - 1940 (Dan Graham)
    • Father Tom Jones-Handball Player and Hero (Jude O’Gorman)
    • Three maps of Caherciveen in the early1840s (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • Fenians, Puppets and Magic Lantern Shows! A Victorian Re-Enactment at Muckross (Patricia O’Hare)
    • Lady Arabella Ward - a Vignette (Dr John Knightley)
    • James Franklin Fuller - Kerry's Great Architect of the late-19th century (Dónal J.O’Sullivan)
    • Of Monasteries, Masons and Medieval Murder – Tales from Medieval Tralee (Claudia Köhler)
    • Mairin Cregan (Jim Ryan)
    • The Earls’ of Desmond and The Tower of London (Robert McGuire)
    • Kerry Publications October 2011-September 2012
    • Cardinal Samuel Stritch of Chicago (Bryan MacMahon)
    • President's Address (Tómas B. Ó Lunaigh)
    • Hon. Secretary's Report, 2010
    • Address by Archbishop Dermot Clifford at the Unveiling of a Plaque to Dr. Croke, in The Square, Tralee (Archbishop Dermot Clifford)
    • The Ballyheigue Affray of 1869 (Bryan McMahon)
    • Crossing The Generations: Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Outreach Programme 2012. Fossa National School
    • Charles Smith's Study of County Kerry 1756 (Seán Moraghan)
    • The Mystery of the Killmackillogue Tugs (Claire Aylett)
    • The Family in County Kerry 6,000 Years Ago (Gerard Mulligan)
    • Final Notes on the O’Connell’s of Derrynane (Valerie Bary)
    • Early-Medieval Bells and Crosiers from County Kerry (Dr Griffin Murray)
    • Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Trip to Beara, June 20-23, 2011 (Isabel Bennet)
    • Cogadh na Talún agus na ‘Moonlighters’ (Éamonn Ó Braoin)
    • Conservation Bookbinding at Muckross House (Paul Curtis)
    • The Archaeology of the Loch a' Dúin Valley (Michéal Ó Coiléain)
    • Kenmare Telegram Announces the Beginning of The 1916 Rising to the World (Mark Daly)
    • Letters from a Victorian Princess to Blanche Herbert of Muckross House (Patricia O’Hare)
    • William Larkin and the Mapping of Kerry Roads 200 Years Ago (Dr Arnold Horner)
    • The World's Best-Known Kerryman, Field Marshall Horatio Herbert Kitchener (Dónal J. O’Sullivan)
    • Molahiffe Village in By-gone Days (Helen Jenkinson)
    • November Fair Day - Sole Survivor from a once Packed Calendar in Castleisland (John Reidy)
    • Theories Regarding the Function of Ringforts and South terrains in County Kerry (Robert McGuire)
    • Kerry Publications October 2010 - October 2011

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