How well do you know Kerry?

14-11-2012 3:02pm #1

How about a rolling quiz type thread, where a poster asks a question and the next poster must answer it before putting up their own question?

Of course, Google etc. will be used, but as there are no prizes maybe try to go without and see.

If a question is unanswered for 24 hours, them the thread can move on and the poster can come back to reveal the answer in their own time. To prevent everyone being stumped and the thread stalling.

The only rule is that the question must be linked to Kerry. They can be classic quiz type questions, when was such and such born, what river flows through X village etc. But less scientific ones welcome, more cultural and social...like name the pub on some street, what petrol is sold by the garage at some place etc.

So, to start

What townland in Tralee contains the main offices of Kerry County Council and the Motor Taxation Office?

ongarboy · 14-11-2012 4:49pm

Deleted User wrote: »

How about a rolling quiz type thread, where a poster asks a question and the next poster must answer it before putting up their own question?

Of course, Google etc. will be used, but as there are no prizes maybe try to go without and see.

If a question is unanswered for 24 hours, them the thread can move on and the poster can come back to reveal the answer in their own time. To prevent everyone being stumped and the thread stalling.

The only rule is that the question must be linked to Kerry. They can be classic quiz type questions, when was such and such born, what river flows through X village etc. But less scientific ones welcome, more cultural and social...like name the pub on some street, what petrol is sold by the garage at some place etc.

So, to start

What townland in Tralee contains the main offices of Kerry County Council and the Motor Taxation Office?

Without googling, I'll hazard a guess and say Ratass?

My question, what village in North Kerry had reports of moving statues in the parish church circa 1985? (this was the mid 80s phase in Ireland when every county had holy statues disco dancing!).

14-11-2012 6:06pm

ongarboy wrote: »

My question, what village in North Kerry had reports of moving statues in the parish church circa 1985? (this was the mid 80s phase in Ireland when every county had holy statues disco dancing!).

Correct with Rathass.

Asdee?

On what island off Kerry would you find these, the Cathedral Rocks?

kerry4sam · 14-11-2012 6:12pm

Lovely Idea for a thread!

Deleted User wrote: »

Correct with Rathass.

Asdee?

On what island off Kerry would you find these, the Cathedral Rocks?

Great Blasket Island

Where in Kerry would you find the following guys:

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14-11-2012 6:43pm

kerry4sam wrote: »

Great Blasket Island

Where in Kerry would you find the following guys:

No! But veeeeeeery close...go again!

Yours is by the Suspension Bridge in Kenmare.

Here's an easy one, insert the name of the pub

"where is xxxx xxxxs, across from the Church, where is the Church, across from xxxx xxxxs"

Axel Lamp · 14-11-2012 7:01pm

Dick Macks

What was the name of Bishop Casey's summer house near Inch?

ongarboy · 14-11-2012 8:37pm

Deleted User wrote: »

Asdee?

Correct!!

16-11-2012 1:13pm

Axel Lamp wrote: »

What was the name of Bishop Casey's summer house near Inch?

Correct with Dick Macks. Cheated and Googled your question - 24 hours with no response! Was it Red Cliff House?

http://www.radiokerry.ie/news/bishops-caseys-former-holiday-retreat-is-sold/

Which son of Ballylongford appeared on the "Your Country Needs You" WWI recruitment poster?

JonathonS · 16-11-2012 5:29pm

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On what island off Kerry would you find these, the Cathedral Rocks?

Inishnabro. If you stop on the N70 above Kells Bay and use binoculars you can see them clearly.

kingdumb · 16-11-2012 9:52pm

Horatio Herbert Kitchener

he was misquoted

Deleted User wrote: »

Which son of Ballylongford appeared on the "Your Country Needs You" WWI recruitment poster?

Lmce24 · 06-12-2012 7:51am

Deleted User wrote: »

Correct with Dick Macks. Cheated and Googled your question - 24 hours with no response! Was it Red Cliff House?

http://www.radiokerry.ie/news/bishops-caseys-former-holiday-retreat-is-sold/

Which son of Ballylongford appeared on the "Your Country Needs You" WWI recruitment poster?

It sure was! My friend's parents had it as the b+b

kingdumb · 06-12-2012 10:39am

Lmce24 wrote: »

It sure was! My friend's parents had it as the b+b

Ok to try and link these questions...
That Kitchener poster was also the basis for a conscription poster for another army.
Where in Kerry would you find a memorial to the Irish who died in a conflict in Asia which under conscription to that army ?

Lmce24 · 06-12-2012 10:43am

kingdumb wrote: »

Ok to try and link these questions...
That Kitchener poster was also the basis for a conscription poster for another army.
Where in Kerry would you find a memorial to the Irish who died in a conflict in Asia which under conscription to that army ?

Court house in tralee I do believe....?!

06-12-2012 1:49pm

Lmce24 wrote: »

Court house in tralee I do believe....?!

More info please!

Which army, which conflict?

Lmce24 · 06-12-2012 3:43pm

Deleted User wrote: »

More info please!

Which army, which conflict?

Crimea....or something like that!

kingdumb · 06-12-2012 6:11pm

@Lmce24

No its not the Crimea/Tralee court house.
The Irish who fought in that did so under the British[ plus is Crimea is not in Asia is it ?].

kingdumb · 06-12-2012 6:19pm

If I told you that a google of kerry+the conflict would reveal the answer. Figuring out the the army should be easy, look at the Kitchener image that is very similar to another '____ needs you' conscription poster, possibly more well known than the Kitchener original.

Deleted User wrote: »

More info please!

Which army, which conflict?

Lmce24 · 07-12-2012 12:56am

kingdumb wrote: »

If I told you that a google of kerry+conflict would reveal the answer, figuring out the the army should be easy, look at the Kitchener image that is very similar to another '.... needs you' conscription poster, possibly more well known than the Kitchener original.

No idea where Crimea is but one of the pillars is for India so British army

Davidth88 · 07-12-2012 4:29am

Burma and Killarney outside the East Ave.

http://www.royalmunsterfusiliers.org/b2kilar1.htm

Just a point , would these men have been all conscripts ...... not sure about that ( but that's OT )

kingdumb · 07-12-2012 8:59am

Again, the memorial is to those who fought with a different army, ie not the British.

kingdumb · 07-12-2012 9:04am

Wow I had no idea that the Munster Fusiliers were the successor's of the East India Company's private army !

Davidth88 wrote: »

Burma and Killarney outside the East Ave.
http://www.royalmunsterfusiliers.org/b2kilar1.htm

Davidth88 · 10-12-2012 1:41am

kingdumb wrote: »

Again, the memorial is to those who fought with a different army, ie not the British.

Ok, now I understand ....... Try the US Army in Korea

http://www.illyria.com/irish/kor_canty.html

Never seen it myself

JonathonS · 10-12-2012 2:04pm

Where in Kerry will you find a monument to the co-founder of Rolls Royce?

kingdumb · 10-12-2012 2:04pm

Spot on, but where is the memorial ?

The other famous poster that the Kitchenerimage was the basis for was this uncle Sam one.

Davidth88 wrote: »

Ok, now I understand ....... Try the US Army in Korea

http://www.illyria.com/irish/kor_canty.html

Never seen it myself

carchaeologist · 10-12-2012 5:46pm

JonathonS wrote: »

Where in Kerry will you find a monument to the co-founder of Rolls Royce?

Is this anything to do with the Ballyfinane hillclimb of 1903?

JonathonS · 10-12-2012 10:42pm

You're getting hotter.

carchaeologist · 10-12-2012 11:32pm

JonathonS wrote: »

You're getting hotter.

I thought as much, Charles Rolls won the event which was held on July 15th 1903, and the Monument commerating the Ballyfinane Hill climb was unveiled by the Kingdom Veteran Vintage and Classic car club on the 20th July 2003.

JonathonS · 11-12-2012 10:47am

So......where is the monument?

13-12-2012 9:30am

kingdumb wrote: »

If I told you that a google of kerry+the conflict would reveal the answer. Figuring out the the army should be easy, look at the Kitchener image that is very similar to another '____ needs you' conscription poster, possibly more well known than the Kitchener original.

Got the poster, but can't get the conflict, every time I google Kerry plus conflict it brings up John Kerry's military history!

Presume it's one of the American Civil War, WWI or WWII, Korea or Vietnam.

kingdumb · 13-12-2012 1:44pm

See Davidth88 answer
"Ok, now I understand ....... Try the US Army in Korea"

Still didn't say where the memorial was tho'

Deleted User wrote: »

Got the poster, but can't get the conflict, every time I google Kerry plus conflict it brings up John Kerry's military history!

Presume it's one of the American Civil War, WWI or WWII, Korea or Vietnam.

Aphex Tim · 13-12-2012 2:31pm

13-12-2012 7:44pm

Aha, good one.

And 10/10 for the name "Aphex Tim"...even if he was born in Limerick not Kerry!

Okay, an easy and less easy one about Kerry night life. Name the night clubs that were in the following venues in the 90s...

The Brandon, Tralee
The Goat Inn, Killorglin

kingdumb · 13-12-2012 8:50pm

Way hey,

Lixnaw is correct, I love the bit on wikipedia about it

Due to the intricate layout of Lixnaw village, this memorial has proven to be very difficult to find, even for the locals.

Aphex Tim wrote: »

carchaeologist · 13-12-2012 10:56pm

Deleted User wrote: »

The Brandon, Tralee

Spirals... Lotsa fun had in there lol!

14-12-2012 1:41am

carchaeologist wrote: »

Spirals... Lotsa fun had in there lol!

Yep, trying to think which was ladies free in night, for bonus points!

Davidth88 · 14-12-2012 12:29pm

kingdumb wrote: »

See Davidth88 answer
"Ok, now I understand ....... Try the US Army in Korea"

Still didn't say where the memorial was tho'

Hi

the grave I saw on that site was/ in in Lixnaw , however there seem to be two or three guys buried in Kerry who died in that conflict.

Wikipedia mentions that there is a memorial there , next time I am in North kerry Ill take a peek ......

Aphex Tim · 14-12-2012 1:44pm

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Yep, trying to think which was ladies free in night, for bonus points!

Wednesday night.

Club Ibex in Killorglin ?

14-12-2012 5:43pm

Aphex Tim wrote: »

Wednesday night.

Club Ibex in Killorglin ?

Wednesday sounds right, wasn't sure myself, Ibex definitely right, thought it was a great name for a club attached to a pub called the Goat.

68Murph68 · 14-12-2012 6:14pm

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Wednesday sounds right, wasn't sure myself, Ibex definitely right, thought it was a great name for a club attached to a pub called the Goat.

Especially in Puck

RevBlueJeans · 22-12-2012 2:01pm

Club Ibex! I like that:)

RevBlueJeans · 22-12-2012 2:04pm

Where in Kerry is Seven Bells Hole?

23-12-2012 10:36am

RevBlueJeans wrote: »

Where in Kerry is Seven Bells Hole?

Hands up, that's got me.

I thought I knew Kerry till I put up this thread..

RevBlueJeans · 23-12-2012 3:06pm

OK a clue! Mr Google will get you this far.

from the Carlow Sentinel SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1846

The Killarney Sessions presented for works to the amount of 50,000l., and the Kenmare sessions to the amount of 30,000l.

The Agricultural Gazette says that Indian corn is the best food for horses.

The Derby Mercury contains an advertisement for an innkeeper for "a thorough vege: table cook."

At the Presentment Sessions for Galway the amount applied for was 22,800l.; 1,500l. was passed for the erection of markets; 1,000l. for a new cemetery, and 5,000l. for improving the sewerage of the town.

The Extraordinary Sessions for the city of Kilkenny presented to the amount of 8,630l. Of this, 3,000l. for purchase of a site, and laying out of a public cemetery, and 3,000l. for purchasing meal, to be sold at 20 per cent. under cost to the poor.

Aquatic birds, in great numbers, are observed at this early season on the marshes of the Low Countries, a circumstance which is regarded as prognosticating a severe winter.

At Tralee Extraordinary Sessions a presentment passed for the new market near the Canal: for a new road from Strand-street to the basin; for widening and quaying the basin of the Canal; for building a quay wall by the Canal to Blennerville; for arching the canal; for conveying water by pipes from the Seven Bell Hole for the supply of Tralee. Works to the amount of £65,000 were granter.

amadain · 23-12-2012 7:50pm

from the Carlow Sentinel SATURDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1846............At Tralee Extraordinary Sessions a presentment passed for the new market near the Canal: for a new road from Strand-street to the basin; for widening and quaying the basin of the Canal; for building a quay wall by the Canal to Blennerville; for arching the canal; for conveying water by pipes from the Seven Bell Hole for the supply of Tralee. Works to the amount of £65,000 were granted.

http://www.focuskerry.com/james/canal.html

http://irishwaterwayshistory.com/abandoned-or-little-used-irish-waterways/waterways-of-cork-and-kerry/tralee-ship-canal/?blogsub=confirming

Sorry, no further clues in the above (about the location of the Seven Bell Hole) BUT some on here may find this interesting all the same.

amadain · 18-01-2013 10:35am

RevBlueJeans wrote: »

Where in Kerry is Seven Bells Hole?

Anyone ?

amadain · 18-01-2013 10:37am

In the Ballyard to Annagh area ?

RevBlueJeans · 19-01-2013 8:51pm

Its that stretch of the River Lee behind the Carlon Hotel Car Park in Tralee.

A "bell" was a bell shaped meander in a river.

Incidently the papers got it wrong when they reported a boy being saved from the river lee in tralee. He was rescued from the Big River - historically known as the River Gyle. The Lee is a totally seperate river.

The "big river" was owen beg (but the beg morphed into big! so the small river became the big river!)

How well do you know Kerry?

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