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About Ventry

Ventry, Ceann Trá in Irish, is a village in County Kerry, 131 km south-west of Limerick. The map gives it 434 buildings and 0 named streets, with 8 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 160 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 47th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.

Where
131 km south-west of Limerick, 307 km from Dublin
Position
52.1325° N, 10.3594° W
Governed
Kerry County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
434 buildings, 0 streets, 8 named places in 23 kinds
The center of the village of Ventry, towards the western end of the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland.
The center of the village of Ventry, towards the western end of the Dingle Peninsula, Ireland.·Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Maumanorig is a circular enclosure within which are a church site, two hut-sites and several gravemarkers.
Maumanorig is a circular enclosure within which are a church site, two hut-sites and several gravemarkers.·Ridiculopathy, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Kerry since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

293,880112,772156,45818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 160 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ventry; the roads it does record are local. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Náisiúnta Ceann Trá.

Questions people ask

Where is Ventry?
In County Kerry, in the province of Munster, 131 km south-west of Limerick and 307 km from Dublin.
How big is Ventry?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 434 buildings, 0 named streets and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 47th largest of the 68 settlements this site covers in County Kerry.
What is there to see in Ventry?
160 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Chathair Aird, Maumanorig Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site and Rahinnane Castle.
How do you get to Ventry?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Kerry.
Has County Kerry grown or shrunk?
The census counted 293,880 people in the county in 1841 and 156,458 in 2022.
434
buildings on the model
0
named streets
8
named places
23
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2306439). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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