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Extract from the Kenmare Travel Guides:
With its delicatessens and designer boutiques,
KENMARE
feels like a prosperous foreign enclave, and you're more likely to hear English or German tones here than Irish. Neatly organized on an X-plan (laid out by the first Marquess of Lansdowne in 1775), the town is pleasantly cosmopolitan: besides the resident foreigners, it's the natural crossing-over point for everyone travelling up from Cork.
Kenmare was founded by
Sir William Petty
, Cromwell's surveyor general, to serve his mining works beside the River Finnihy. Petty was extremely active in (and benefited greatly from) the dealings in confisca...
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