The Land and People of Maharees & Castlegregory
– A History 1560-1960

Book Contents

Chapter 1 – Historic Settlement
Chapter 2 – Land Tenure: From Gregory Hoare to the Landed Gentry
Chapter 3 – The Kilshannig Defensible Barracks
Chapter 4 – The Great Famine
Chapter 5 – ‘Dark Doings in Our Sahara’
Chapter 6 – The Kerry By-Election of 1872
Chapter 7 – The Land War
Chapter 8 – The Congested Districts Board in Maharees
Chapter 9 – Timothy O’ Flaherty J.P.
Chapter 10 – Maharees: ‘A Vast Charnel-House’
Chapter 11 – Public Health
Chapter 12 – Water-Famine Conditions
Chapter 13 – Fishing
Chapter 14 – Rebellion
Chapter 15 – The Tralee and Dingle Light Railway
Chapter 16 – The Irish Language

Chapter 17 – A Welcome for Strangers
Chapter 18 – Emigration
Chapter 19 – Tourism
Chapter 20 – Coastal Erosion
Chapter 21 – Going to the Bog
Chapter 22 – Going to the Strand
Chapter 23 – Work on the Land
Chapter 24 – The Work of the Land Commission in Maharees
Chapter 25 – Dress
Chapter 26 – Folklore
Chapter 27 – The Forge
Chapter 28 – Law and Order
Chapter 29 – Company Keeping and Marriage
Chapter 30 – Sports and Leisure
Chapter 31 – A New School for Maharees