Tralee

Tralee lies at the head of its bay in northern Kerry. The earls of Desmond held a castle here, and a Dominican friary stood within the town that served the surrounding countryside. During the Desmond rebellion the earl withdrew from Tralee in 1580, leaving the castle and town burned. The property was granted to Edward Denny in 1587. The restored castle was besieged again during the wars of the 1640s and burned after its garrison surrendered, before being rebuilt in the later seventeenth century.