Caherciveen
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Town with 1,040 residents
- Description: town in Ireland
- Also known as: “Cahersiveen”, “Cahersween”, “Cathair Saidhbhin”, and “Cathair Saidhbhín”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bentee and Cahergall.
Bentee
Peak
Photo: Linda Bailey, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bentee or Benatee is a hill overlooking the town of Cahersiveen in County Kerry, Ireland.
Cahergall
Archaeological site
Photo: Theboykenny, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cahergall is a stone ringfort and National Monument located in County Kerry, Ireland.
Ballycarbery Castle
Ruins
Photo: JoachimKohlerBremen, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ballycarbery Castle is a castle 3 kilometres from Cahersiveen, County Kerry, Ireland. The castle is high on a grass hill facing the sea and is a short distance from Cahergall Fort and Leacanabuile Fort.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Knightstown.
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 5 km southwest of Caherciveen.
Caherciveen
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Kerry, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.9472° or 51° 56′ 50″ northLongitude
-10.2238° or 10° 13′ 26″ westPopulation
1,040Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE CHEOpen location code
9C3FWQWG+VFOpenStreetMap ID
node 1419136598OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Caherciveen” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Cahersiveen”
- Basque: “Cahersiveen”
- Breton: “Cathair Saidhbhín”
- Catalan: “Cahersiveen”
- Cebuano: “Cahersiveen”
- Czech: “Cahersiveen”
- Dutch: “Cahirciveen”
- Esperanto: “Cathair Saidhbhín”
- French: “Cahersiveen”
- German: “Cahersiveen”
- Hebrew: “קאהרסיבין”
- Irish: “Cathair Saidhbhín”
- Italian: “Cahersiveen”
- Japanese: “カアサイビーン”
- Lithuanian: “Kersivinas”
- Polish: “Cahersiveen”
- Polish: “Cahirciveen”
- Polish: “Cathair Saidhbhín”
- Russian: “Кэрсивин”
- Scots: “Cathair Saidhbhín”
- Slovak: “Cahersiveen”
- Spanish: “Cahirciveen”
- Swedish: “Cahersiveen”
- Welsh: “Cahersiveen”
- Welsh: “Cathair Saidhbhín”
- “Cahersiveen”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Caherciveen”. Photo: Andy Stephenson, CC BY-SA 2.0.