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Tralee (== the Strand of the Lee or
Leigh), parish, seaport, and Union and market town (Tuesday &
Saturday), Trughanacmy barony, West county Kerry, Ireland, about 20
miles north by west of Killarney. Tralee formerly sent two members
to the Irish Parliament, but at the Union the representation was
reduced to one, and in 1885 it was merged in that of the county.
Tralee has Protestant and Catholic churches, places of worship of
other religious bodies, and good elementary and secondary schools.
A ship canal has been constructed from Tralee Harbour to the town
by which vessels up to 250 tons can discharge in the town. The
principal public buildings are the Chamber of Commerce, the
Courthouse, the gaol, barracks, hospital, and workhouse. The
fisheries are important, and Tralee has over 600 fishing-boats
registered. There is a large export in grain, and a considerable
quantity of barley is converted into malt and shipped to Cork and
Dublin. The coal, iron and timber trades are of consequence. Montly
fairs are held, and in addition there are fortnightly
pig-fairs.
Population (parish) : 8,734.
Population (town) : 9,318.
Tralee Bay, inlet of the Atlantic, West
county Kerry, Ireland. It is entered from the Atlantic between
Kerry Head and the Hog Islands, at the extremity of the narrow neck
of land dividing it from Brandon Bay ; it is about 6 miles wide at
the mouth, but contracted to 4¾ by the island of Fenit,
below which, on the east, by the Samphire islands, is the inner
portion known as Tralee harbour, from which is the ship canal to
the town.
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