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Civil parish

Stradbally

An Sráidbhaile

A local diary records family life, road building and a new pier in the Maharees part of this Kerry parish.

Watercolour and fine ink illustration of Scraggane Pier in the Maharees, County Kerry, as photographed in May 2016.
Illustration, Scraggane Pier in the Maharees, County Kerry, as photographed in May 2016
Recorded locationStradbally52.25286° N · 10.08459° WInteractive map supplied by OpenStreetMap.
Recorded place location · Logainm.ie

The name

bailetownland, town, homestead

These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.

An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.

Recorded forms

  • An Sráidbhaile · Irish · main form · validated name
  • Stradbally · English · main form

Place & story

People & connections

A teacher’s record

Fahamore, in the Maharees, belongs to Stradbally civil parish. Timothy O’Flaherty taught at its national school and kept a diary that survives in a published transcription. His entries include his marriage to Hanora Deen of Fahamore on 2 February 1861, alongside births, deaths and departures overseas. His son continued the record after O’Flaherty’s death in April 1909, distinguishing the schoolteacher’s own entries from the family’s later additions. [2] [3]

Road and harbour works

O’Flaherty recorded an engineer named Keating arriving to plan a pier at Scraggane on 25 August 1893. His subsequent entries date the start of pier construction to 10 April 1896 and its completion to 24 April 1897. He also noted work beginning on the road to Fahamore and Scraggane on 29 January 1895. These dated observations document practical changes in the parish’s coastal connections, rather than a single undifferentiated harbour-building date. [3]

Geographic information

Place type
Civil parish
County
Kerry
Coordinates
52.25286, -10.08459
Mapped area
16.4 km²
Logainm ID
1124 ↗

Sources & further reading

  1. Logainm.ie — Stradbally. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
  2. Fahamore: civil-parish hierarchy · Townlands.ie
  3. Transcript and introduction: Timothy O’Flaherty diary,1846–1915 · Timothy O’Flaherty and son; transcription contributed by Brendan Lynch, Kerry Ireland GenWeb
  4. Scraggane Pier in the Maharees, County Kerry, as photographed in May 2016 illustration: based on a Scraggane Pier by David Purchase. AI-assisted watercolour and ink adaptation; cream paper margins added, incidental clutter omitted and fine details simplified. Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0.

Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2025-01-10. How this page was prepared.