lxiv INTRODUCTION. 
District VII.—TrRucGHANACMY. 
Maritime. Approx. area, 306 sq.m. Flora, 604. 
This is the largest of the nine Kerry baronies with a coast- 
line which includes portions of two distinct bays, separated 
from each other by the Dingle peninsula. On the south it 
includes the greater portion of Castlemaine Harbour, and on 
the north side the eastern extremity of Tralee Bay. Both 
these estuaries are surrounded by swampy tide-riven shores, 
but west of Spa village on the northern shore of Tralee Bay, the 
coast-line changes to low cliffs and stony beaches. Near the 
north-western limit of this barony is Barrow Harbour, a small 
nearly land-locked inlet almost dry at low water, while just 
north of this are some sandhills and limestone rocks, the latter 
reaching 149 feet in height, the most elevated point on this 
coast. 
Inland, it resembles the northern half of the preceding 
barony, the greater portion being filled with broad low-lying 
valleys and undulating heather-clad hills which rise to 1,441 
feet near its eastern border ; they are quite uninteresting both 
from a botanical and a scenic point of view. The western 
portion of this division, however, includes the southern slopes 
of the Slieve Mish Mountains rising to 2,796 feet at Baurtre- 
gaum, as well as all the eastern half of this range. While most 
of the localities svitable for alpine plants fall within the 
boundaries of District V., the following plants, not elsewhere 
found in the barony, occur on these mountains :—Cochlearia 
alpina, Saxifraga stellaris, S. Geum, S. umbrosa, S. hypnoides 
(agg.), Sedum Rhodiola, Antennaria dioica, Oxyria digyna, Salix 
herbacea, Empetrum nigrum, Carex rigida, both the Filmy Ferns 
and Lycopodium Selago. To these should be added Sibthorpia 
europea, which finds its eastern limit in Ireland on their 
northern slopes not far from Blennerville. 
Most of this large division is drained by the River Maine 
and its tributary, the Brown Flesk, with the small River Lee 
and branches of the River Feale in its northern portion. A few 
insignificant lakes are to be found about Killorglin, but else- 
where it has to rely for its aquatic species on its rivers and on a 
small pond near Farranfore ; this latter station, though less 
than an acre in extent, provides the only record of @nanthe 
Phellandrium for Kerry and the second in the county for 
Potamogeton obtusifolius. 
Tralee, the largest town in Kerry, with 10,300 inhabitants, 
is included in this barony. It is connected with the sea at 
Blennerville by a short canal, while a branch railway runs to 
