Magnificent scenery has attracted visitors to Dingle, County Kerry for centuries. Rocky headlands jut out into the Atlantic and colourful fishing villages nestle in the bays.

The Dingle peninsula offers some of Irelands most beautiful scenery. To the north rises towering Brandon Mountain, while the west coast has some magnificent seascapes. The area has a host of antiquities from Iron Age stone forts to inscribed stones, early Christian oratories and beehive huts. Some parts of the Dingle peninsula are Gaelic speaking Dingle town is full of brightly coloured houses and good restaurants but still maintains its fishing village ambience. A more recent addition to the town is Fungi, a dolphin who strayed into the bay in 1983 and has been winning hearts since. He sometimes can be seen at breakfast time from Emlagh House. As it is an enclosed natural harbour Dingle has always been a favoured port of call, especially in the 14th and 15th century when it was Kerry’s major port and in the 16th century when it was important enough to be a walled town. Later on its remote location helped to establish it as a smuggling centre and at one point in its history it went so far as to mint its own coins. The town past is very much in evidence at Dingle Library.

Shops

Great restaurants, shops, jewellery, leatherwork and jewellery are among the wealth of shops found in the town.

Holden Leather goods, Kathleen McAuliffe Milner, Nugoldsmith and La Boheme are just some of the wonderful places to visit in the town.

www.holdemleathergoods.com
www.nugoldsmith.com
www.kathleenmcauliffe.com
www.lisebethmulcahy.com
www.murphysicecream.ie
www.dingleshop.com

Restaurants include:

The Chart House
Out of the Blue
Ashes Seafood Bar & restaurant
The Global Village
The Half Door
Fenton’s Seafood
Murphy’s Ice cream

Galleries

Visit the Greenlane gallery at www.greenlanegallery.com