About Cahersiveen

The Catholic church in the town is the only one in Ireland named after a lay person, Daniel O'Connell. It is situated on the slopes of Bentee. It also contains a decommissioned Royal Irish Constabulary barracks, now a heritage centre.

Cahersiveen was where the first shots of the Fenian Rising were fired in 1867.

In 1984, a baby's body was found on a beach near Cahersiveen (the White Strand), resulting in the Kerry Babies Tribunal and subsequent public inquiry