Things to do in Northern Kerry
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Farmers Market
Listowel’s farmers market is held on the Square as markets have been for centuries.
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Grape & Grain
A stylish, burgundy-coloured place for lunch or a coffee with sandwiches, salads, hot specials and cakes.
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The Grape & Grain
Music can be found at the weekends at this refurbished Listowel institution, a good place for a pint and a bite.
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Aquadome
Tralee's water fun centre, Aquadome, has gushers, geysers, sauna and steam room as well as plenty of water just to swim in.
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Baily's Corner
Deservedly popular for its traditional sessions, with local musicians performing original material most weeknights during summer and at least a couple of nights a week the rest of the year.
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Blue Umbrella Gallery
An arts and crafts cooperative opposite the large Archangel gallery. There are changing exhibitions and lots of work for sale.
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Mai Fitz's
A pleasant, small pub serving chowder, breaded mushrooms and the like. After 15:00, solider dishes like Dingle Bay scampi are available.
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La Scala
A popular Irish-Italian eatery where locals banquet on pizza and pasta, sizzling fajitas and meatballs. Breakfast is served until 17:00.
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Manna Organic Store
Manna Organic Store has organic produce, groceries and various feel-good potions and lotions. Wheatgrass grows in the window.
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Tom Crean Room
The Tom Crean Room at the Kerry County Museum celebrates the local hero who accompanied both Scott and Shackleton on epic Antarctic expeditions.
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Club Fabric
Tralee's club of the moment with the right mix of chill-out bar, upstairs level for 1970s and '80s faves, and a main disco for some floor-burning DJs.
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Áines Café & Wine Bar
Lots of salads, steaks, hot specials and cute little sandwiches. Heaters over tables outside make trying to affect that Continental lifestyle palatable.
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Samhlaiocht
The local arts group Samhlaiocht stages exhibitions and special events such as the Kerry Film Festival in early November.
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St Mary's Church
Built in 1829 in the neo-Gothic style, this church has some lovely mosaic work over the altar and a vaulted roof with timber beams.
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walks
The tourist office has leaflets on walks such as the 3.5km river walk and the 10km Sive walk, which takes in John B Keane Rd, a disused railway track and a bog.
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Mozart's
Not content with composing Don Giovanni, he's inspired a bistro in Tralee. Mozart's is great for a daytime bite, serving burritos and baps, focaccias and croissants.
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Jim Halpin Fishing Supplies
The River Feale provides many opportunities for angling year round. For licences and information contact Jim Halpin Fishing Supplies, which also sells angling equipment.
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windmill
Blennerville used to be the chief port of Tralee, though it has long since silted up. A 19th-century flour windmill has been restored and is the largest working mill in Ireland and Britain.
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John B Keane
Once run by the late writer himself, this small, unassuming bar is swathed in Keane memorabilia.
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Finnegan's Cellar Restaurant
In a low-beamed Georgian cellar with candles on the intimate tables, Finnegan's serves reasonably priced, traditional meat and fish dishes given a twist by unusual sauces, herbs and dressings.
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Denny Lane Cafe
Entered via a narrow lane, this modern cafe is great for snacks like loaded potato skins or warm brie salad, as well as more filling meals such as pan-friend sirloin steaks.
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Chopin's Cafe
Irish-as-it-gets specialities at this cute little red box of a cafe include bacon and cabbage with white sauce and baked cod with tartare sauce, plus homemade beef burgers laced with onions, while international options range from frittatas to lasagnes.
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Medieval Experience
The Medieval Experience, is an enjoyable multimedia presentation re-creating life (smells and all) in Tralee in 1450. Children love strolling the medieval streets and there's a commentary in various languages.
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Woulfe’s Horseshoe Bar
Enjoy the cosiness of the downstairs bar or the upstairs restaurant at this long-established place, which features window gnomes. The menu offers a full range of pub standards including an array of daily roasts.
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Harty's Lounge Bar
Despite its svelte appearance, this modernised Tralee institution serves no-nonsense nosh, but with tagliatelle joining beef and Guinness stew on the menu. It was the birthplace of the Rose of Tralee festival in 1959.
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