Killarney 250th birthday



The Irish Red Deer, the largest native Irish mammal, has only survived in an unbroken line in the Killarney valley where it has lived since the end of the last ice age some 12,000 years ago. It is a particular experience to walk in the hills around Killarney during the mating season in October and hear the bellowing roar of the stags as they warn off any other thinking of trying to steal some of their harem.

Four sika deer (Sika Nippon) were presented to the Muckross Estate in 1861 and their descendants are now among the purest strains of Sika deer in the world.


On balmy Summer evenings Killarney has significant colonies of rare moths. The silver spotted Kerry Slug is another native whose normal range is not further north than the north of Spain.









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