Chapeltown
Chapeltown is a village on Valentia Island in the south-west of County Kerry. It is the second major settlement on the Island, the other being Knightstown 4 kilometers away.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Elkringo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Village with 80 residents
- Description: Irish village
- Also known as: “Chapeltown, County Kerry”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Geokaun and Cromwell Point Lighthouse.
Geokaun
Peak
Photo: Jonathan Billinger, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Geokaun Mountain is the highest mountain on Valentia Island, County Kerry.
Cromwell Point Lighthouse
Lighthouse
Photo: Peter Craine, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cromwell Point Lighthouse, also known as Valentia Lighthouse, is an active 19th century lighthouse located on Valentia Island's Cromwell Point in County Kerry, Ireland. It provides guidance for vessels entering Valentia Harbour from the north. Cromwell Point Lighthouse is situated 3 km north of Chapeltown.
Illaunloughan
Archaeological site
Photo: Jose Antonio Gutierrez D., CC BY-SA 4.0.
Illaunloughan is a medieval Christian monastery and National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland. The site is located on a tiny island of 0.3 acres in Portmagee Channel, a channel separating Valentia Island from the Iveragh Peninsula. Illaunloughan is situated 3½ km southwest of Chapeltown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Portmagee and Knightstown.
Portmagee
Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Portmagee is a fishing village on the Iveragh Peninsula of County Kerry, with a population in 2016 of 123. In Irish it's An Caladh, "the ferry", because it was the port for Valentia Island, but a bridge now spans the channel.
Knightstown
Village
Photo: Kmcnamee, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Knightstown, alternatively called Knight's Town, is a village and the largest settlement on Valentia Island, County Kerry, in Ireland. It lies within the townland of Farranreagh, at the eastern tip of the island. Knightstown is situated 4 km northeast of Chapeltown.
Caherciveen
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Caherciveen is a village on the Iveragh Peninsula in County Kerry in southwest Ireland. It has a population of 1300, but it's on the popular Ring of Kerry tourist circuit and gets very busy in summer.
Chapeltown
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Kerry, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.90717° or 51° 54′ 26″ northLongitude
-10.33607° or 10° 20′ 10″ westPopulation
80Elevation
51 metres (167 feet)Open location code
9C3FWM47+VHOpenStreetMap ID
node 52259559OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
3297707Wikidata ID
Q24196488
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Irish—“Chapeltown” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Chapeltown”
- German: “Chapeltown”
- Irish: “An Caol”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Chapeltown”. Photo: Elkringo, CC BY-SA 4.0.