Killarney
is a holiday paradise for children ...
provided the adults with them have the eyes and the mind and the inclination. There is nothing long and boring in Killarney ... infinite variety all of the time ... twisting, varying routes are much more interesting. Children like change ... and Killarney is constant change.
'For Children' dips in and out of the different sections in 'Where Killarney' and suggests a child's approach ­ but this list is just a lucky dip ... every aspect of holidays here offer the same possibilities.

Local Sightseeing
Catholic Cathedral ... used as a hospital during the Great Famine ... see the memorial on the site where children who died during the Great Famine in the Cathedral were buried ... 1.25 million people in Ireland died of disease and starvation from 1845 to '47.
Places associated with famous people
Church of Ireland the great grandfather of the first President of Ireland, Douglas Hyde ministered here
Bower Lane where a Lord Chief Justice of Australia grew up.
the Speir Bhean memorial to four of the most famous Kerry poets in the Irish language ... and one of them was hung on Martyrs Hill (the hill across from the memorial – where the Franciscan Church now is ) public hangings took place on this hill.
Bram Stoker creator of Dracula lived here

Killarney Area
A boat trip back in time to Innisfallen Island (11R)
- There was a hospital for lepers here in the 6th century .
- the oldest source of the history of Munster was written here ­ the annals of Innisfallen.
- Brian Ború ... the most famous Irish High King was educated here ... and Thomas Moore wrote a special poem about Innisfallen.
Muckross Gardens ... (14-16M & 12L) 'one of the great gardens of the world'.
- after the ice age (12,000 years ago) the gardens were part of the lake.
- there are five or six kinds of gardens here ... can you find them?
Dunloe ogham stones (4L) ... examples of the first kind of writing in Ireland.
Ross Castle (10R & 9L) was the last castle in Ireland captured by Oliver Cromwell's army - how did they capture it without firing a single shot?
At Aghadoe (3L) the door to the round tower is fourteen feet up ... so that the Vikings couldn't get at the monks and their valuables.
What was it like to work on a farm 70 years ago - find out at the Muckross Traditional Farms (18M).
On Ross Island (10-16R)
- follow the Mining Trail - oldest copper mines in north western Europe - illustrated information panels
- visit Ireland's first nature reserve

Tours in Killarney
Take a trip in a waterbus ... or go by row boat ... take a ride on a jaunting car (a horse drawn car) ... cycle or walk to the oldest copper mines in north western Europe (14R).

Ring of Kerry/Dingle/Beara/North Kerry

Ring of Kerry

 ... along by Ireland's highest mountains
How did the monks survive for 600 years on a sea rock 9 miles off the Kerry coast (11RK).. the sea is 238 feet deep there ... the neighbouring 17 acre Little Skellig has 44,000 gannets ... the second biggest gannet colony in the world.
Go and see the home of Daniel O'Connell (15RK)... known as The Liberator ..he was responsible for Catholic Emancipation .. National School Education .. over a quarter of a million people came to many of his mass meetings ... he founded the first great mass democratic movement in the world.
In Sneem (17RK)can you find sculpture from China, Israel,South East Asia, France as well as Ireland?
During the Ice Age there was 1,500 feet of ice and snow on top of Moll's Gap(21L & 19RK).

Dingle
(map & text) ... wild, spectacular scenery that attracted 'Ryan's Daughter' and 'Far and away'..!
See the wonders of the ocean at Dingle Oceanworld,
The Wild Colonial Boy came from Castlemaine
Around Dingle Irish or Gaelic is the first language
Dunmore Head (10D) is the most westerly landpoint in Europe
Walk into a community church that is 1,200 years old (Gallarus(14D))
See where St. Brendan left for America - a thousand years before Columbus (16D)

Beara

..the wild, rugged, beautiful land of Hungry Hill Walk on the beach at Ballydonegan (near 6B).. the white sand grit was brought in as ballast on the copper ships
Take a cable car to Dursey Island (7B)
Less than 100 years ago Garnish Island (12B)was a bare Rock

Tralee & North Kerry
(text & map) ... what did the prehistoric Kerryman look like .. experience the streets of Tralee of 145O .. travel on a steam train ..visit a working windmill... Aquadome is Ireland's largest indoor waterworld (Tralee (2N)). Crag Cave (Castleisland).
Take a hot seaweed bath (Ballybunion) .. see where Jesse James' father came from (Asdee)
Walk in the steps of 'The Quiet Man' ... 'Sive' .. visit 'The Field'
How did the young boy learn the dance in the forge ... how did the king with horses ears manage ... find out in music, song, dance, mime and fun at Siamsa Tire (2N)

Walking in Killarney
In largest yew woods (6M) in western Europe ... in
ancient oak woodlands (14L, 9L & 27L) ... (the story of the oakwood is told in the National Park Interpretative Centre at Muckross House (17M & 12L) ... by spectacular volcanic pillars (between Crohane and Beenaunmore Mountain south east of Lough Guitane) ... in gardens (14M-16M) ... on the highest mountain (30L).
Using the booklets on the nature trails ... identify the leaves and trees and flowers ... see a squirrel ... or a red deer ... birds.

Outdoor Activities
... canoeing ... fishing ... a golf driving range ... horse riding ... pitch 'n' putt ... tennis ... windsurfing...Seafari ... other sea activities.