Families of County Kerry
The peninsulas of Iveragh and Dingle, Mac Cárthaigh Mór, the Geraldines of Desmond, and the last Munster Gaelic ground.
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Families of County Kerry
- McCarthyOf Desmond and Cashel, the line of the Eóganachta.
- FitzGeraldHibernis ipsis Hiberniores, the Geraldines of Kildare and Desmond.
- O'SullivanThe third most common Irish surname, and the family of Donal Cam's march.
- O'ConnellThe family of Daniel O'Connell, The Liberator, and the most influential Catholic of 19th-century Britain.
- O'SheaStately ones, lords of Iveragh.
Historic ties to Kerry
Families with historic but not core ground in this county.
Champions of County Kerry
Famous bearers whose lives or work root in County Kerry.
- Daniel O'ConnellThe Kerry barrister who organised the Catholic millions of Ireland into the first great peaceful mass movement and won Catholic Emancipation without firing a shot, earning forever the name of the Liberator.
- Maurice WalshThe Kerry-born Customs officer turned novelist whose 1933 Saturday Evening Post short story The Quiet Man became, in John Ford's 1952 adaptation with John Wayne and Maureen O'Hara, the Academy Award-winning film that fixed a certain idea of Ireland onto twentieth-century world cinema.