Baile an Fheirtéaraigh Ballyferriter | |
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Village | |
 Ballyferriter, County Kerry, Ireland | |
  Baile an Fheirtéaraigh Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates:52°10′31″N10°24′50″W / 52.175195°N 10.414009°W /52.175195; -10.414009 | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Munster |
| County | County Kerry |
| Government | |
| • Dáil Éireann | Kerry |
| Irish Grid Reference | Q352044 |
| As this is aGaeltacht,Baile an Fheirtéaraigh is the only official name.[1][2] | |
Baile an Fheirtéaraigh (Irish, meaning 'Ferriter's Townland'[ˈbˠalʲənʲɛɾʲˈtʲeːɾˠiː]) unofficiallyanglicised asBallyferriter, or also known asAn Buailtín,[1] is aGaeltacht village inCounty Kerry,Ireland. It is in the west of theCorca Dhuibhne (Dingle) peninsula and according to the 2002 census, about 75% of the town's population speak theIrish language on a daily basis. The village is named after theNorman-Irish Feiritéar family who settled inArd na Caithne in thelate medieval period. The lastChief of the Name was the seventeenth-centuryBard and leaderPiaras Feiritéar who was executed. The older Irish name for the villageAn B[h]uailtín ("the little dairy place") is still used locally.
The village lies at the base of Croaghmarhin Hill nearCuan Ard na Caithne (formerly also called Smerwick Harbour) on theDingle Peninsula, on theR559regional road which loops around the west of the peninsula, beginning and ending inDingle Town. It has three pubs and one hotel. It also has a school, church, museum,Músaem Chorca Dhuibhne,[3] the offices of the local co-op (Comharchumann Forbartha Chorca Dhuibhne[4]) and aGarda station.[citation needed]
The village is busier throughout the summer due to an influx ofIrish 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.[5]
Between Ballyferriter and Smerwick Harbour isDún an Óir (the Fort of Gold), anIron Agepromontory fort, which was the location of theSiege of Smerwick, a massacre in 1580. A 600-strong Spanish and Italianpapal invasion force which had come as part of theSecond Desmond Rebellion ofJames Fitzmaurice Fitzgerald were besieged and massacred by the English crown forces ofArthur Grey, 14th Baron Grey de Wilton.[citation needed]
Under a place-names order in 2004, the Minister for the Gaeltacht,Éamon Ó Cuív declared that the Irish place-name (Baile an Fheirtéaraigh) must be used on maps and signage.[2]
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