For the record, Killarney - culturally, historically and environmentally - rises above most towns in Ireland. I should know: I grew up there where visitors came from all over the world vastly outnumbering the locals during the summertime. The Irish National Events Centre (INEC) is in the Gleneagle Hotel on Muckross Road. Muckross is anglicised Gaelic: Ros na Muic which means ‘boar wood’ or ‘headland of pigs’, while Killarney is anglicised Gaelic: Cill Airne, which means ‘church of the sloes’ – sloes being the berries of the blackthorn bush which apparently makes great jam, and even liqueur! When humans are tranquillised by this liqueur, fairies and leprechauns pluck up courage to venture into open spaces and cavort around the toadstools and shamrocks most enchantingly. Flann O’ Brien captured a few such moments, - and you just might too!!

As the Munster venue for the cities of Cork, Limerick, Waterford and big towns round about, the demand may well shock. Remember, nearly 9000 people turned up to see Morrissey for one night in the Point in December, with no more notice.

Anyway, to get back to geography class, in the past ten years, commercialisation has transformed the town into a modern busy market-place, but the past never dies! Many famous people have passed through and commented favourably over the centuries, including Alfred Lord Tennyson who wrote a poem about the misty magic of the place - search:

http://www.potw.org/archive/potw196.html

Other information's available as follows if you dutifully remove stray spaces from urls -

http://www.killarneytown.com/sightseeing/index.php

http://www.killarneydaytour.com/gapofdunloe.htm