St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Churchyard
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St. Brendan's Roman Catholic Churchyard

Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland

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    Ardfert, County Kerry Ireland
    Coordinates: 52.32639, -9.78349
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Ardfert (Irish: Ard Fhearta, meaning "the hill of miracles") is a village and parish in the Barony of Clanmaurice in County Kerry, Ireland. The village's name signifies, according to Sir James Ware, "a wonderful place on an eminence", or as some interpret it, "the hill of miracles." Ardfert has also been considered a corruption of Ard Ert, "the high place of Ert or Erc", so called after the 5th century Irish Bishop Saint Erc, who made the place a bishop's seat. Ardfert is the home of St. Brendan's Ardfert Cathedral, which was destroyed in the War of 1641, and the birth place of St. Brendan the Navigator, who was educated about the year 500 AD. He founded a monastery there in the 6th century, but both town and monastery were destroyed by fire in 1089, and again in 1151.In ancient times it was in the territory of Ui Fearba/Hy Ferba, of which the Leanes were once the Gaelic Lords, until the Normans came.The Norman influence can still be seen not only in the architecture, but also in local families such as the Cantillons (Barons de Ballyheigue), and Fitzmaurices, and in place names, such as Ballintobeenig, a nearby townland below Mt. Crusline called after St. Aubin. The 1st Lord Kerry, Thomas FitzMaurice, founded a Franciscan friary there in 1253, and Nicholas, the 2nd Lord Kerry, built a leper house there in 1312. It was the seat of a bishopric until 1660. The churchyard is six miles North-West of Tralee.
Ardfert (Irish: Ard Fhearta, meaning "the hill of miracles") is a village and parish in the Barony of Clanmaurice in County Kerry, Ireland. The village's name signifies, according to Sir James Ware, "a wonderful place on an eminence", or as some interpret it, "the hill of miracles." Ardfert has also been considered a corruption of Ard Ert, "the high place of Ert or Erc", so called after the 5th century Irish Bishop Saint Erc, who made the place a bishop's seat. Ardfert is the home of St. Brendan's Ardfert Cathedral, which was destroyed in the War of 1641, and the birth place of St. Brendan the Navigator, who was educated about the year 500 AD. He founded a monastery there in the 6th century, but both town and monastery were destroyed by fire in 1089, and again in 1151.In ancient times it was in the territory of Ui Fearba/Hy Ferba, of which the Leanes were once the Gaelic Lords, until the Normans came.The Norman influence can still be seen not only in the architecture, but also in local families such as the Cantillons (Barons de Ballyheigue), and Fitzmaurices, and in place names, such as Ballintobeenig, a nearby townland below Mt. Crusline called after St. Aubin. The 1st Lord Kerry, Thomas FitzMaurice, founded a Franciscan friary there in 1253, and Nicholas, the 2nd Lord Kerry, built a leper house there in 1312. It was the seat of a bishopric until 1660. The churchyard is six miles North-West of Tralee.

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