Listowel, County Kerry

Place details

Country:
Ireland
URL:
https://listowel.ie/
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Listowel is a heritage market town in County Kerry, Ireland. It is on the River Feale, 28 km (17 mi) from the county town, Tralee. The town of Listowel had a population of 4,794 according to the 2022 census, the third largest in the county. Listowel is also the name of a townland within the town and an encompassing civil parish.

Described by the organisers of Listowel's writers festival as the "Literary Capital of Ireland", a number of internationally known playwrights and authors have lived there, including Bryan MacMahon and John B. Keane.

Associated events

Birth 22 March 1791 John Sandes (1791 - 1845)
Death 31 May 1845 John Sandes (1791 - 1845)
Birth 24 January 1791 Thomas H. Sandes (1791 - 1839)
Birth 5 February 1793 Arthur Sandes (1793 - 1832)
Birth 22 February 1794 John Sandes (1794 - 1846)
Birth 11 November 1796 Agnes Sandes (1796 - )
Birth 1 February 1798 Margaret Sandes (1798 - 1888)
Death 15 August 1789 Francis Hewson (1731 - 1789)
Marriage 25 February 1854 John Nunn Woodroffe (1823 - 1892
Anna Sandes (1814 - 1872)
Marriage 15 September 1852 Robert Wren Sandes ( - 1895)
Alicia Ponsonby ( - 1895)
Death 25 January 1878 Martha Sandes (1823 - 1878)
Birth 8 March 1824 John Sandes (1824 - 1887)
Baptism 12 March 1824 John Sandes (1824 - 1887)
Baptism 13 October 1821 George Sandes (1821 - 1895)
Death 25 October 1895 George Sandes (1821 - 1895)
Death 13 December 1883 Henry Moore Sandes (1832 - 1883)
Irish Census 1901 1901 (31 March) Mary Wilhelmina Yielding (1854 - 1928)
Irish Census 1911 1911 (2 April) Mary Wilhelmina Yielding (1854 - 1928)
Birth 20 May 1842 Thomas William Sandes (1842 - 1895)
Baptism 5 June 1842 Thomas William Sandes (1842 - 1895)
Marriage 30 August 1849 Henry Smith ( - )
Elizabeth Agnes Sandes (1828 - 1889)
Marriage 20 November 1860 William Alton (1807 - 1874)
Maria Henrietta Sandes (1831 - 1890)
Listowel, County Kerry
Listowel, County Kerry
Listowel, County Kerry
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