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Dingle  A view of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry, southwest Ireland. David Lean's film Ryan's Daughter was made here in 1970. | Seaport and tourist centre in County Kerry, Republic of Ireland; population (2002) 1,650. It is situated on the north side of Dingle Bay, 48 km/30 mi southwest of Tralee, on the Dingle Peninsula. Dingle harbour allows for safe anchorage, and is a centre for flatfish and lobster fishing. The town is the most westerly town in Europe, and grew up round a medieval fortress. |
| The Mount Brandon (923 m/2,954 ft) area of Dingle Peninsula is rich in monuments of great antiquity, including beehive-shaped stone huts, pillar stones, stones inscribed with ogham characters, chamber tombs, earthworks, and ring forts. |
| Dingle had political and trade connections with Spain during the Elizabethan period. The town received a charter in 1685. |
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| It will keep, and I feel hungry, and yonder seems a dingle where I can lie and open my knapsack, eat, drink, and doze among the sun-flecked shadows. In the meantime the supervisor rode on, as fast as he could, to Kitt's Hole; but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes; so it was no great matter for surprise that when they got down to the Hole the lugger was already under way, though still close in. When we finished our lunch the barrens were already wrapping themselves in a dim, blue dusk and falling upon rest in dell and dingle. |
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