Portmagee
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Photo: Tony Webster, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Illaunloughan and Tobairin Holy Well.
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.
Bray Tower
Ruins
Bray Tower is a signal tower located on Valentia Island in County Kerry, Ireland. The tower was built in 1805 by the British Board of Ordnance during the Napoleonic Wars. Bray Tower is situated 4 km west of Portmagee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chapeltown.
Chapeltown
Village
Photo: Elkringo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Portmagee
- Type: Village with 123 residents
- Description: village in County Kerry, Ireland
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Kerry, Munster, Southwest Ireland, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.8857° or 51° 53′ 9″ northLongitude
-10.366° or 10° 21′ 58″ westPopulation
123Elevation
26 metres (85 feet)Open location code
9C3FVJPM+7HOpenStreetMap ID
node 1419137990OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2962021Wikidata ID
Q174545
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