Ross Island
Ross Island is a claw-shaped peninsula in Killarney National Park, County Kerry. Ross Castle is located here and it is also the site of abandoned copper mines, including some believed to be the earliest in north-western Europe.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Island
- Description: Irish peninsula
- Also known as: “Ross Island, Killarney”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ross Castle and Innisfallen.
Ross Castle
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Ross Castle is a 15th-century tower house and keep on the edge of Lough Leane, in Killarney National Park, County Kerry, Ireland. It is the ancestral home of the Chiefs of the Clan O'Donoghue, later associated with the Brownes of Killarney.
Innisfallen
Island
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Innisfallen or Inishfallen is an island in Lough Leane; one of the three Lakes of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. Innisfallen is home to the ruins of Innisfallen Abbey.
St Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney
Church
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St. Mary's Cathedral, Killarney, is the cathedral church of the Diocese of Kerry situated to the west of Killarney in County Kerry, Ireland. St Mary’s Cathedral, Killarney is situated 2½ km northeast of Ross Island.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Killarney and Fossa.
Killarney
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Killarney is a town in County Kerry in southwest Ireland. It has a resident population of about 14,000 but in summer they're outnumbered by tourists, because this is one of the most scenic areas of Ireland, firmly on the tourist circuit for over 150 years.
Fossa
Hamlet
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Fossa is a village and parish in County Kerry, Ireland, north of the Lakes of Killarney. Townlands in Fossa parish:… Fossa is situated 4 km northwest of Ross Island.
Beaufort
Village
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Beaufort is a small village that lies on the banks of the River Laune in County Kerry, in the southwest of Ireland. It consists of a post office, three public houses, one supermarket, parish hall, guest houses and thirty private houses. Beaufort is situated 7 km northwest of Ross Island.
Ross Island
- Category: landform
- Location: County Kerry, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Swedish—“Ross Island” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ross Island”
- German: “Ross Island”
- Swedish: “Ross Island”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lakes of Killarney and Lough Leane.
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ross Island”. Photo: Disco1878, CC BY-SA 4.0.