Ballyferriter
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The village lies at the base of Croaghmarhin Hill near Script error: No such module "Lang". (formerly also called Smerwick Harbour) on the Dingle Peninsula, on the R559 regional road which loops around the west of the peninsula, beginning and ending in Dingle Town. It has three pubs and one hotel. It also has a school, church, museum, Script error: No such module "Lang".,[2] the offices of the local co-op (Script error: No such module "Lang".[3]) and a Script error: No such module "Lang". station.Template:Fact
The village is busier throughout the summer due to an influx of Irish students, when both teenagers and adults attend Irish language courses in the local national school and other venues in the village as part of the local Irish colleges. University College Cork also owns a house there that facilitates a year-long study course for students at a higher level.[4]
Between Ballyferriter and Smerwick Harbour is Script error: No such module "Lang". (the Fort of Gold), an Iron Age promontory fort, which was the location of the Siege of Smerwick, a massacre in 1580. A 600-strong Spanish and Italian Papal invasion force which had come as part of the Second Desmond Rebellion of James Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald were besieged and massacred by the English crown forces of Arthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton.Template:Fact
Under a place-names order in 2004, the Minister for the Script error: No such module "Lang"., Script error: No such module "Lang". declared that the Irish place-name (Script error: No such module "Lang".) must be used on maps and signage.[5]