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Ventry

Seaside village in County Kerry, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Ventry / Ceann Trá
other_name	Fionntrá
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Dingle-Ventry-Center-2012.JPG
image_caption	The village centre
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Munster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Kerry
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2011
population_total	423
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
blank_name	Irish grid reference
blank_info
footnotes	Ceann Trá is the only official name.

Ventry (), officially Ceann Trá, is a Gaeltacht village in County Kerry, Ireland, on the Dingle Peninsula, 7 kilometres west of Dingle. Due to its long sandy beach, Ventry is a tourist destination.

History

Six kilometres west of Ventry are the ruins of Dunbeg (An Dún Beag), an Iron Age promontory fort on the edge of a steep cliff. Near Dunbeg is Kilvickadownig, home to other archeological ruins, including examples of the beehive house and the grave of Caol or Cháil Mic Crimthainn, the last to die in the Battle of Ventry from the Fenian Cycle of Irish mythology.

Also within Ventry parish is Rahinnane Castle, which was the residence of the Knight of Kerry. The Knight of Kerry lived there until Cromwellian conquest of Ireland. The castle was built on the site of an old ringfort. The ringfort was built up and a second added with walls of six metres (20 feet), giving the appearance that there may have been a moat, although there never was one. Rahinnane Castle retains some of its original features, including a set of narrow stone stairs which connect the first and second floors.

Transport

The village is connected to Dingle via the R559 road which runs from Dingle through various villages on Slea Head.

As at 2024 there are daily bus services to Dingle.

Notable people

Sport shooter Dennis Fenton was born in the village
Canon James Goodman, the music collector and Professor of Irish at Trinity College, Dublin, was raised in Ventry.
Ventry was home to Páidí Ó Sé, the well-known Kerry footballer, who owned a pub across from the parish church until his death in 2012.

Ventry Bay

The bay or harbour is a suitable anchorage for sailing and fishing boats. On 4 October 1939, entered Ventry Bay and landed 28 Greek sailors of the MV Diamantis. Their ship had been torpedoed by a U-boat. The event was commemorated with a plaque in October 2009. Guests at the plaque unveiling included the then German Ambassador to Ireland, the mayor of the Oinousses Islands in the Aegean, as well as members of London's Greek shipping community.

File:Ventry Harbour from Mount Eagle - geograph.org.uk - 2010909.jpg|Ventry Harbour seen from Mount Eagle File:Ventry Graveyard a.jpg|Ventury graveyard File:Ventry1.jpg|Ventry Beach

References

"Ventry/Fionntrá". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Ventry/Ceann Trá". [[Placenames Database of Ireland]].
"Timetables".
(2012-12-15). "Kerry legend Paidi O Se dies suddenly at the age of 57". [[BBC Sport]].
(21 October 2009). "West Kerry: Local recalls U-35 landing 'perished' sailors in Ventry". The Kerryman.

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