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  • On the Scale of things..Piaras Kelly, of Kerry Climbing.ie, on Cnoc na Péiste Ridge, Eastern Reeks, MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, County Kerry, on a recce earlier this year for “Killarney's’ Ultimate High Peaks Challenge”  a spectacular one day mountain challenge event  that will test participant’s endurance, stamina and self sufficiency in some of Ireland’s toughest mountain terrain. This years event takes place on Saturday 26th August 2017. Kery is certainly the pinnacle of all mountain adventures. Participants will self navigate along a pre planned marshalled route across the highest mountain range in the country - The magnificent MacGillycuddy’s Reeks. Adventure enthusiasts will trek over 25 km of stunning, wild, rugged mountain terrain ticking off many of Ireland’s highest summits with a total height gain of over 2500 meters.Did we mention the après BBQ and Trad Session in Cronin’s Yard?? Register today http://killarneypeakschallenge.com/register/.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • The iconic abandoned cottage in Dromluska, Cummenduff Glen in the Black Valley, Co Kerry, along the Kerry Way.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Bishop's Island, Loop Head, Kilkee Co Clare.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Caherconree (Cathair Con Rí) Sliabh Mish, Camp, County Kerry. Caherconree is an ancient Celebratory Fort at 2740 ft (835m) It was the fortress of Cú Raoi Mac Daire during the Iron Age.In Irish mythology this is the fort of Cú Roí mac Dáire, who was able to make it spin around at night to stop any attackers from finding the entrance.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan<br />
52°11'49" N, 9°51'49
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  • Autumn Colours at the begining of Torc Waterfall, Killarney National Park.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Cloghane Village, Co Kerry.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Crashing waves and familiar atlantic swells at Clogher Head, Dingle Peninsula.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • A view From The Conor Pass (an Conair) looking into Dingle Bay, Co Kerry.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • First signs of Spring resuming in the Cummenduff Glen, Black Valley, Killarney Co Kerry.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Donal Foley's colourful ewes  in his sheep farm, Cuas, MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Co Kerry. The colours are carefully coded by Donal during breeding. Blue: First two weeks, Red: 3rd Week, Black Spot: Suffolk, Red Spot: Texel sheep, Red:Charolais sheep. He introduced six rams to the ewes, scanning will begin in February and the lambs will be born in April 2015.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Freezing fog rising from Muckross Lake on a winter's evening sunset in Killarney.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan/03/01/2010
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  • Bottle Nosed Dolphins following the Renard Ferry to to Valentia Island,County Kerry .Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Ewe-phoric view…Sheep grazing on Ross-Behy hill, overlooking Rossbeigh Strand, on a windswept Spring day at Glenbeigh County Kerry.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Crowd Surfing…Walkers and surfers going in opposite directions on Inch Strand, availing of the late September fine weather on the Dingle Peninsula, Co Kerry.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Gougane Barra in Autumn, St Finbarr’s Oratory and where the remains of the 6th century monastery founded by St Finbarr, Patron Saint of Cork located on the Island of Gougane Barra Lake. The tiny church occupying the island was built in the 19th Century.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Surfin' the Reef...Surfer Ed Lacey, Tralee ready to surf the Reef at Inch Strand,Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry.
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  • The Irish Red deer (Cervus Elaphus)  on Mangerton Mountain, Killarney National Park, are our largest and the only native species to Ireland. They are believed to have had a continuous presence in Killarney since the end of the last Ice Age (c. 10,000 BC).Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Aerial Shot of Innisfallen Island, Lough Lein, Killarney, County Kerry. A monastery was founded on Innisfallen in the 7th century and it became a seat of learning and it said that King Brian Boru studied there. On the island are the remains of the extensive 12th century Augustinian priory and a small 11th -12th century Romanesque church. The annals of Innisfallen, a major source of early Irish history and now stored in the Bodleian Library in Oxford were written there. Boat trips to the island operate from the Ross Castle area from Ross and Reen piers.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan©
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  • Rutting Season well under way with this 12 pointer Irish Red deer on the slopes of Mangerton Mountain, Killarney National Park the Irish Red Deer are the largest and the only native species to Ireland. They are believed to have had a continuous presence in Killarney since the end of the last Ice Age (c. 10,000 BC).Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • an Autumn time Jaunting Car drive in Muckross, Killarney National Park.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Kayaking Killarney National Park, Muckross Lake, Killarney.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Killarney Town Centre, impressing the judges in the National Tidy Towns awards this year.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Spring has sprung...on Mary Twomey, Coomecluvane, Coolea, Co Cork, she has just started her busy lambing season on their sheep farm. Mary stocks, suffolk, texel and scotch sheep.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Loop Head Diarmaid agus Grainne, Co.Clare.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Walkers descending Carrauntouhill, MacGillycuddy's Reeks, Co Kerry as part of the Killarney Walking Festival, series of  walks to celebrate the Summer Solstice.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan/NO REPRO FEE/22/-6/2014
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  • #ShineYourLight… Muckross Abbey, Killarney National Park, founded for the Observatine Franciscans in 1448, lighting the cloisters,  as part of  Ireland’s major cultural and heritage sites is prompting the nation to unite as one and Shine a Light at 9pm on Easter Saturday evening, in a gesture of hope and solidarity during the Covid-19 pandemic. Photo: Valerie O’Sullivan / FREE PIC
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  • Loop Head Project.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Muckrosss Tradtional Farms.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Laura O’Driscoll, 2nd, at the Devil’s Punch Bowl, Mangerton Mountain, Killarney, where over 2000 competitors participated  in Quest Killarney - a multi-activity one day Adventure Race event, at the weekend. There were 5 different routes, from Expert 84Km to a sport event. Athletes trekked the rugged Kerry landscape,  Cycling the Gap of Dunloe, Black Valley, Killarney National Park and Kayaked Muckross Lake.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan/ FREE PIC/NO REPRO FEE/issued 13/10/2019
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  • One man’s Everest…Ultra Runner, Sean Clifford, from Killarney, set an Irish record reaching the dizzy heights of 10,000 m of positive ascent in 23 hours and 53 minutes — the equivalent height of Mount Everest, and accumulative 10 times  ascent of Ireland’s  highest Mountain - Carrauntoohil, (1039 m) in the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, County Kerry. Sean set about his challenge, on Caher Mountain, on Friday night, running through the night, ascending, Carrauntoohil, Cnoc an Toinne, using the Devil’s Ladder for ascents, and Bothar na Gige (The ’Zig Zags’) for descents. Final ascent was made on Carrauntoohil. Joined throughout his record breaking quest by fellow Killarney Ultra Runners, Joe O’Leary, Damien Courtney, Neil Kelders and Harold Clifford. An exhausted Sean returned to a heroes welcome at Cronin’s Yard - Official home to the Reeks, late on Saturday night. Also managing to raise funds for Dementia and Alzheimer awareness.<br />
Sean, has competed in races across the globe,  the UTMB in France, Diagonal des Fous on Reunion Island, El Cruce in Chile and Ankor Ultra in Cambodia. More recently he has placed 2nd in Ireland’s longest and toughest ultra marathon, the Kerry Way Ultra.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan/ISSUED 14/07/2019/FREE PIC***
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  • Joe O’Leary,left  and Jack Murphy, Killarney on Mangerton Mountain, competing in Quest Killarney - a multi-activity one day Adventure Race event, at the weekend. There are 5 different routes, from Expert 84Km to a sport event. Athletes trekked the rugged Kerry landscape,  Cycling the Gap of Dunloe, Black Valley, Killarney National Park and Kayaked Muckross Lake.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan/ FREE PIC**
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  • September Sunshine..a surfer takes to the waters at Inch Beach, as low cloud keeps the Iveragh Peninsula covered.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • All is quiet on New Years Day at Ross Castle, Killarney, the 15th Century Fortress, situated on the shores of Lough Lein, Killarney National Park. Photo: Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Over the rainbow…Sheep continue to graze as the sun peeps out to form a rainbow between the heavy outbursts of rain in Glencar, County Kerry.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Atlantic Puffin, The monastic Island of Skellig Michael was founded in 588 by Saint Fionán, for 600 years the island was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. located 12 kilometres off the coast County Kerry’s Inveragh Peninsula. Skellig Michael is the most spectacular of all the early medieval island monastic sites. The monastery consisting of six beehive huts, is situated almost at the summit of the 230-metre-high rock. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 and is one of Europe's better known but least accessible monasteries. Skellig Michael is the most spectacular of all the early medieval island monastic sites. Skellig Michael (Sceilig Mhicíl in Irish) and Great Skellig. The word Scellic means a steep rock.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Skellig Michael monastery was  founded in 588 by Saint Fionán, for 600 years it was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. 12 kilometres off the Kerry Coast. Skellig Michael is the most spectacular and least accessible monasteries in Europe.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • The monastic Island, Skellig Michael founded in the 7th century, for 600 years the island was a centre of monastic life for Irish Christian monks. The Celtic monastery, which is situated almost at the summit of the 230-metre-high rock became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996. It is one of Europe's better known but least accessible monasteries.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Skellig Sunset, with atlantic waves bracing St Finan’s Bay, Skellig Michael and Skellig Beag in the distance, Iveragh Peninsula, Co Kerry.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Snowy Summits…members of Laune Mountaineering Club,  availing of the snowy conditions on Horses Glen, Mangerton Mountain in Killarney National Park close to the summit.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan/ISSUED 19/01/2020
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  • Storm Fionn Approaching Skellig Beag and Skellig Michael Islands, off the Iveragh Peninsula Co.Kerry, along the Skellig Coast.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Storm Callum approaching… A Spring tide fast approaches Owenahincha Beach, Rosscarbery, County Cork, with Galley Head Lighthouse in the distance, as a Code Orange heads for the Atlantic Coast of Ireland.Photo:Valerie O’Sullivan
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  • Autumn glow on the shannon Estuary, with Tarbert Lighthouse, Co Kerry and Moneypoint Power Station, Co Clare.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • View of The Great Blaskets and An Fear Marbh, Dingle Peninsula.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • View from the top of the Devil's Ladder, looking down to Loch Gabhrach, right, and  Loch Caillí,into the Hags Glen,  on a perfect February morning, after 110 days of continous rainfall in Kerry and 11 storms later.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Torc Waterfall, Killarney part of the teenage meditation walks at The four day residential retreat led by Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh,entitled  “Living Mindfully Today" took place in Killarney Convention Centre,  accompanied by 50 monks and nuns, over 750 lay people attended.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan/no Reproduction/issued 15/04/2012
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  • Gail Force winds battering the coastline and Cromwell Point Lighthouse, Valentia Island. The Lighthouse was commissioned in 1837, and began functioning in 1837 and ceased operations in 1947 with the advent of automation. It fell into severe disrepair. It was subsequently taken in as a conservation project by the Irish Landmark Trust who restored it for use as a short term holiday let. In 2007 the Irish Georgian Society contributed over €2,000 to the repair and conservation of two of the house’s sash windows.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan©
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  • View from Bridges of Ross, Loop Head Project.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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  • Reintroduced to the South West of Ireland, An Adult White Tailed Eagle catches a fish to feed her chicks.Photo:Valerie O'Sullivan
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