Tralee is the county town of County Kerry, in the south west corner of Ireland. The name Tralee comes from the Irish 'Trá Lí', or 'Trá Laoi', which means 'strand of the Lee' (river), although some believe it comes from the Irish 'Trá Liath' meaning 'grey strand'. The town is situated on the northern side of the neck of the Dingle Peninsula. Tralee is the largest town in Kerry.
Tralee is accepted as being Ireland’s newest tourism destination and has seen some €55 million of tourism investment over the past several years. The town has developed a range of quality all weather visitor attractions. Tralee is also famous for the Rose of Tralee International Festival which is held annually in August.
Amenities include:

• Kerry County Museum – incorporating the theme park 'Kerry: The Kingdom' and an exhibit which depicts life in medieval Geraldine Tralee.
• Siamsa Tire-Folk theatre – offering traditional music and plays in Irish.
• Blennerville Windmill located about 2 km outside the town, Ireland's largest still functioning windmill.
• Tralee Aquadome - A large indoor water leisure facility with a mini-golf course, located near Fels point, just off the Dan Spring road, at the Western exit from the town. The Sliabh Mish mountain range acts as a pretty backdrop to the site.
• Tralee-Dingle Railway - Departures also take place from the Aquadome site for trips on the restored part of the old Tralee to Dingle Railway. Local enthusiasts have brought back an original Hunslet steam engine from the USA to relive the days when the Tralee to Dingle line carried goods and passengers along the famous narrow-gauge picturesque route before it was finally closed in 1953. Visitors can take a short train ride in carriages imported from Spain pulled by the puffing Hunslet a few miles out to the Tralee Bay village of Blennerville. Here the restored Blennerville Windmill and Museum house a fascinating look into Tralee's historical past as a gateway to the new world in the 19th century. Nearby the Windmill stands the yard where the Jeanie Johnston wooden sailing ship replica was completed in 2002. The new Jeanie Johnston ship is now based in Dublin city docklands.
• Jeanie Johnston Sailing Ship - The original Irish emigrant sailing ship was built in Quebec in 1847. Jeanie Johnston was a triple-masted ship designed to carry 200 passengers and a crew of 17. A local firm of John Donovan & Sons of Tralee, bought her to operate as a passenger ship and a cargo vessel. The Jeanie Johnston was used as a passenger ship from Ireland to Baltimore, New York and Quebec. On the return leg of each voyage the ship usually carried timber from North America to Tralee. During the bleak winter of 1848 the ship brought food supplies from New York to Tralee to ease the famine conditions of that year. During those times of the Great Hunger, the Jeanie Johnston made 16 trans-Atlantic voyages. Unlike many "coffin ships" of that era, the Jeanie Johnston held a proud reputation, having never lost a single passenger or crew.

Other Things To See

• Scotia's Grave - reputedly the grave of a daughter of Neferhotep I, Egyptian Pharoh, 13th Dynasty, about 1800 BCE. She is also known as Scota.
• Casement's Fort - an ancient Ring Fort where Roger Casement was hiding when arrested.
• Sheila na Gig - in the Christian Round Tower at Rattoo, a few miles north of Tralee.
• Monument to Saint Brendan the Navigator at Fenit, the port of Tralee.