KAHS_Cover_2020.indd 1 14/11/2019 11:44 THE KERRY ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY EDITORIAL COMMENT CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: THE YOUNG It is scarcely possible to believe, that this magazine is the 30th in We always try to include articles the series. Back then the editor of our journal the late Fr Kieran pertaining to significant anniversaries, O’Shea, was having difficulties procuring articles. Therefore, the be they at county or national level. KERRY ARCHAEOLOGISTS’ CLUB Journal was not being published on a regular basis. A discussion This year, we commemorate the 50th Are you 15 years of age or older and interested in History, Archaeology, Museums and Heritage? In partnership with Kerry occurred at a council meeting as to how best we might keep in anniversary of the filming of Ryan’s County Museum, Kerry Archaeological & Historical Society is in the process of establishing a Young Kerry Archaeologists’ contact with our membership and the suggestion was made that a Daughter on the Dingle Peninsula. An Club, in which members’ children can participate. If you would like to get actively involved in programming and organizing “newsletter” might be a good idea. Hence, what has now become event, which catapulted the beauty of events for your peers, please send an email to our Education Officer: [email protected]. a highly regarded, stand-alone publication was born. Subsequent, the Peninsula onto the world stage, to this council meeting, the original sub-committee had its first resulting in the thriving tourism meeting. It was chaired by Gerry O’Leary and comprised of the industry, which now flourishes there. following members, the late Kit Ahern, the late Sr Anslem, Isabel Bennett, Kathleen Browne, Ted Creedon, Michael Costello, the Over the years we have built up an excellent working relationship late Seán Ó Connor, the late Seán Ó Dubhda and myself. Issue with all heritage/cultural institutions in Kerry and have liaised No. 1 was a black and white publication, somewhere between A4 with many of them on our Outreach Programme. This year’s and A5 in size, in which 11 articles were published. article by Claudia Köhler and Jemma O’Connell, Kerry County Museum, is reflective of this. This current issue of The Kerry Magazine, contains 19 articles, The Kerry Magazine is published annually. Anyone wishing to though in previous years we have published as many as 25. In my submit an article for consideration by the editorial committee, opinion one of the most unique facets of The Kerry Magazine, for publication in Issue No. 31, should do so by May 31, 2020. is the range and variety of articles published between its covers We welcome short articles (maximum 2,000 words) from both each year. There really is something there for everyone, whether Secondary School students from Killorglin Community College Archaeologists in the making: Students from Killorglin academics and non-academics, on topics related to any aspect of reader or contributor. What other society provides a platform guide their peers through Kerry County Museum’s Main Gallery Community College during a dig workshop as part of Kerry’s rich and diverse cultural heritage. Contributors’ are also for publication, where work by highly qualified academics is during Museum/Architecture Kerry 2019 Takeover Week. Museum/Architecture Kerry 2019 Takeover Week. required to submit appropriate illustrations with their articles and published alongside articles written by local historians, with a brief biographical note for publication in our contributors’ list. no formal training in the arts of research and writing? This is something, which I as current president of our society and editor I would like to express my gratitude to the various contributors, of this magazine am very proud. members of the editorial committee, in particular Miriam O’Sullivan, Patricia O’Hare, designer Catherine Teahan, Walsh This year’s magazine contains articles ranging from ‘Scartaglin: Colour Print, staff of Kerry Library, and Kerry County Librarian, Area Mapping Surveys and Surrounding Place-name Definitions’ Tommy O’Connor. to ‘The Life and Times of James Booth Roche, MP for East Kerry and Great-Grandfather to Diana, Princess of Wales’, which Marie O’Sullivan, proves the diversity of interests reflected between our covers. Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society, President. The Kerry Magazine, Hon. Editor. Tour guiding training in Kerry County Museum’s Medieval Students from Presentation Secondary School, Milltown Experience with students from Presentation Secondary discuss objects on display in Kerry County Museum’s School Tralee as part of Museum/Architecture Kerry 2019 Casement exhibition as part of Museum/Architecture Kerry Takeover Week. 2019 Takeover Week. Kerry County Museum hosting History in the Box, an Students from Colaiste Gleann Li, Tralee pity fire Neolithic inter-generational workshop for teenagers and their parents pottery with ceramicist Lone Beiter O’Reilly in 2017. or grandparents. This innovative project was organised The pots were based on finds from Killaclohane Portal Pictured at the launch of The Kerry Magazine, No 29, 2019, are (front row: left-to-right): Kathleen Browne, Past President, in conjunction with Letters of 1916-1923 (Maynooth Tomb near Milltown, Kerry’s oldest man-made structure. Marie O’Sullivan, Editor and Society President, Patricia O’Hare, Research and Education Officer, Trustees of Muckross House, University, Digital Humanities) in 2018. Rev. Simon J. Lumby, Contributor, (back row: left-to-right) Tommy O’Connor, County Librarian, Tom Roche, John O’Connor, History in a Box brought history and technology together in Dawn Ní Chonchubhair, Dan Graham, Contributors, Maureen Hanifin, Past President. a novel way allowing families to learn together as a team. KAHS_Cover_2020.indd 2 14/11/2019 11:45 THE KERRY ARCHAEOLOGICAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY CUMANN SEANDÁLAÍOCHTA IS STAIRE CHIARRAÍ The Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society was founded in 1967. It has as its objectives, the collection, recording, study and preservation of the history and antiquities of Kerry. Activities include lectures, outings to places of archaeological and historical interest and the publication annually of both a journal and magazine – each of which is issued free to members. www.kerryhistory.ie http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kerry-Archaeological-and-Historical-Society/ 196539573713424 Membership Subscription Rates: Individual €35 Family €45 Student €15 Institution €65 To join/renew membership please visit www.kerryhistory.ie or send the appropriate subscription to: Hon. Treasurer Telephone: 066/7121200 Kerry Archaeological and Historical Society Fax: 066/7129202 Kerry Library, Moyderwell, Email: [email protected] Tralee, County Kerry, Ireland. Website: www.kerryhistory.ie Comprehensive indices to our in-stock publications are availabile at www.kerryhistory.ie where they may be purchased. Electronic Download *(Note) Hardcopy Journal €20 Journal €25 (inc p+p) Magazine €10 Magazine €15 (inc p+p) *(Note) By choosing this option, you will agree that you will be provided with a username and password, whereupon you can access exclusive KAHS content and receive documents electronically in lieu of hard copies. Your details will be stored securely in accordance with our Privacy Policy, which can be found at www.kerryhistory.ie Editor: Marie O’Sullivan. Editorial Committee: Kathleen Browne, Dick Carmody, Pádraig Ó Concubhair, Tommy O’Connor, Elizabeth O’Donoghue/Ross, Patricia O’Hare, Raymond Roche, Miriam O’Sullivan. Front Cover: Montage of photographs celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the filming ofRyan’s Daughter on the Dingle Peninsula (Ryan's Daughter Album of Photographs, Leabharlann an Daingin). Back Cover: Montage representing 30 issues of The Kerry Magazine. Foilsithe ag: Cumann Seandálaíochta is Staire Chiarraí. Designed by: Catherine Teahan Graphic Design, Email: [email protected] Printed by: Walsh Colour Print, Tralee Road, Castleisland, Co. Kerry. ISBN: 978 0993428975 1 KAHS_Copy_2020.indd 1 14/11/2019 11:45 CONTENTS President’s Address ........................................................................................................................................................3 Hon. Secretary’s Report 2018 .......................................................................................................................................4 Dr Paul Dillon: Maurice Neligan: A Labour Organiser in Kerry, 1918-1920 ...............................................................5 Jerry Flynn: Scartaglin: Area Mapping Surveys and Surrounding Place-name Definitions ......................................10 Dan Graham: Outpost of Empire-The Dingle Royal Constabulary Barracks, 1886-1922 .........................................13 Dr Arnold Horner: Mapping Kerry 450 Years Ago .....................................................................................................16 Dr Michael Christopher Keane: From Kerry to Laois: The Return of the Seven Septs ............................................19 Claudia Köhler & Jemma O’Connell: The Tomb in the Lab: A Major Science Week Event Exploring Killaclohane Portal Tomb .............................................................................................................................21 Bryan MacMahon: Corporal Thomas Joseph Murray and the Connaught Rangers Mutiny of 1920 ........................23 Victoria McCarthy: Architecture Kerry 2018 .............................................................................................................26