COUNTY KERRY by GARAGELAND

Photography • Landscape • posted on Sep 01, 2011

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COUNTY KERRY, IRELAND. PLEASE ZOOM: In 1580, during the Second Desmond Rebellion, one of the most infamous massacres of the Sixteenth century, the Siege of Smerwick, took place at DÃºn an Ã�ir near Ard na Caithne (Smerwick) at the tip of the Dingle Peninsula. The 600-strong Italian, Spanish and Irish papal invasion force of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald was besieged by the English forces and massacred. In 1588 when the fleet of the Spanish Armada in Ireland were returning to Spain during stormy weather, many of their ships sought shelter at the Blasket Islands and some were wrecked. During the Nine Years War, Kerry was again the scene of conflict, as the O'Sullivan Beare clan joined the rebellion. In 1602, their castle at Dunboy was besieged and taken by English troops. Donal O'Sullivan Beare, in an effort to escape English retribution and to reach his allies in Ulster, marched all the clan's members and dependents to the north of Ireland. Due to harassment by hostile forces and the freezing weather, very few of the 1,000 O'Sullivans who set out reached their destination. In the aftermath of the War, much of the native owned land in Kerry was confiscated and given to English settlers or 'planters'. The head of the MacCarthy Mor family, Florence MacCarthy was imprisoned in London and his lands were divided between his relatives and colonists from England, such as the Browne family. In the 1640s, Kerry was engulfed by the Irish Rebellion of 1641, an attempt by Irish Catholics to take power in the Protestant Kingdom of Ireland. The rebellion in Kerry was led by Donagh McCarthy, 1st Viscount Muskerry. McCarthy held the county during the subsequent Irish Confederate Wars and his forces were some of the last to surrender to the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1652. The last stronghold to fall was Ross Castle, near Killarney. In the 17th and 18th centuries, Kerry became increasingly populated by poor tenant farmers, who came to rely on the potato as their main food source. As a result, when the potato crop failed in 1845, Kerry was very hard hit by the Great Irish Famine of 1845â��49. In the wake of the famine, many thousands of poor farmers emigrated to seek a better life in America and elsewhere. Kerry was to remain a source of emigration until recent times. Another long term consequence of the famine was the Land War of the 1870s and 1880s, in which tenant farmers agitated, sometimes violently for better terms from their landlords. HAVE A NICE DAY.

Comments (19)

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jayfar

2:44AM | Thu, 01 September 2011

This is a very beautiful picture and the birds add to its perfection, great info too Steve.

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qrud

2:52AM | Thu, 01 September 2011

This is splendid done and amazing to see.

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evinrude

3:11AM | Thu, 01 September 2011

Awesome moment.

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Crabbycabby

3:42AM | Thu, 01 September 2011

The geese make this a great composition. Wonderful image.

geoffwoods

3:45AM | Thu, 01 September 2011

mate what a great place to live plenty of photos there.

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wysiwig

3:50AM | Thu, 01 September 2011

I can see why the land was fought over, its beautiful. Given their history I find it amazing that the Irish would have anything to do with the English.

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