clashatlea

Updated: April 30, 2025

In view of the conflicting opinions held by able residents in the western and south-western counties, I thought it well to inspect a few estates, great and small, and to record such visible and otherwise well ascertained facts as might bear on the questions now at issue. My first visit in Kerry was to Clashatlea on the hill-side, opposite the station of Gortatlea on the railway line to Tralee.

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.

Years ago it was a matter of complaint by the cottiers of Clashatlea that to obtain turf they were obliged to make a great detour involving the climbing of a severe hill. An attempt was made to lay a road on the lines now in progress; but it never grew into more than "the name of a road."

Bernard Henry Becker - Disturbed Ireland: Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.