The small fishing and market town of Dingle, County Kerry, Ireland ( "Daingean Ui Chuis" in Irish and "An Daingean" on direction signs) is the gateway to the West of Dingle, a landscape rich in many heritages: language, ancient & modern history, geology, peoples, wildlife, birdlife, fauna & flora. Although the Dingle Peninsula is a single place on the map, there are distinct differences in each place upon it. We can divide it around Dingle Town as East of Dingle and West of Dingle
This web site aims to help the visitor wondering 'Why go West of Dingle?' or thinking 'Surely a day trip will suffice it is so small an area'.
Dingle is a great base for doing West of Dingle, but there is plenty of accommodation further West. As well as many small named hamlets, larger townlands are also named on the maps. When the road signs were changed to kilometers the opportunity was taken to change the places signed to their Gaelic names. i.e "Ventry" is now signed as "Ceann Tra", this emphasises that the region is a Gaeltacht, a native Irish speaking area where Kerry Irish is spoken by many, although everyone is bi-lingual, so the visitor will have no problems speaking English or American.
Whereas it was Ryan’s Daughter that brought the modern sightseer to Dingle, and Fungi the Dolphin that hooked many a visitor to return, Dingle, post "Celtic Tiger", is exhibiting the swiftness of foot that has stood it in good stead through the ages. You can see this in the regular 'special events' whether a small group of visitors from a twin town or crowds of people from all over Ireland and further afield for the October Food Festival, Dingle maintains an Irish welcome throughout the year.
Follow the links on the left side menu, and watch highlights on video below, to learn more about why and when you should BeThere!
