Tralee
| Tralee Trá Lí Tralee |
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| Coordinates | 52 ° 16 '10 " N , 9 ° 42' 17" W | ||
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Motto "Vis Unita Fortior" Combined power is stronger |
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| Country | Ireland | ||
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| county | Kerry | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | IE-KY | ||
| height | 37 m | ||
| surface | 12.1 km² | ||
| Residents | 20,869 (2016) | ||
| density | 1,724.7 Ew. / km² | ||
| Telephone code | +353/66 | ||
| Website | www.tralee.ie (English) | ||
Tralee ( Irish Trá Lí . "Beach of the (River) Lí") is the capital of County Kerry in the southwest of the Republic of Ireland .
economy
Tralee is home to the headquarters of the Kerry Group , an international company primarily in the food production sector, as well as a large hospital for most of the area including the Dingle Peninsula .
traffic
Tralee Railway Station is the terminus of a route from Dublin . It is also the most westerly in Europe .
18km southeast is Kerry International Airport with a bus service to Tralee. Tralee is connected to the national bus network of Bus Éireann .
Culture
The city is particularly famous for the “ Rose of Tralee ” festival and around eighty pubs . Another highlight is the Kerry County Museum in Ashe Memorial Hall, as well as the Siamsa Tíre National Folklore Theater .
Courthouse
St. John's Church
Statue of a Pikeman by Albert Power, commemorating the 1798 rebellion
Building from 1857
The "White Windmill"
From Tralee you can get to the Dingle Peninsula and the Ring of Kerry with the Killarney National Park .
sons and daughters of the town
- Austin Stack (1879–1929), Sinn Féin politician and athlete
- Sean O'Riordan (1916-1998), Redemptorist, moral theologian
- Seán Mac Mathúna (* 1936), author
- Dick Spring (* 1950), lawyer, athlete, politician and member of parliament
- William Crean (born 1951), Roman Catholic Bishop of Cloyne (Ireland)
- Timothy V. Murphy (born 1960), actor
- Aisling O'Sullivan (born 1968), actress
- Rea Garvey (* 1973), singer, songwriter and guitarist
- Paul Griffin (* 1973), racing cyclist
- Paul Griffin (* 1979), rower and cross-country skier
Web links
- Official website
- Institute of Technology - with information about Tralee (map)
- Rose of Tralee Festival
- tralee.de:Visitor information and pictures (German)
- Map of Kerry and Cork (can be enlarged)
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Deiss: Vane Cathedral and Sugar Beet Station. A short story about 200 European train stations . Bonn 2010, p. 75.