Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Kenmare River or Bay

Kenmare River or Bay, a sea inlet, S. co. Kerry, and partly between cos. Kerry and Cork, 28 miles long and from 2 to 6 miles broad. The estuary of the Roughty, or head of Kenmare Bay, is crossed by a handsome suspension bridge (1838), the first structure of its kind in Ireland.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a sea inlet"   (ADL Feature Type: "channels")
Administrative units: Kerry IrlC
Place names: BAY     |     KENMARE RIVER     |     KENMARE RIVER OR BAY

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