Brandon Creek

Brandon Creek is also a hamlet near Littleport, Cambridgeshire

Brandon Creek (Irish: Cuas an Bhodaigh) is a village located at the Dingle Peninsula in the most westerly point of the island of Ireland.

According to the 9th century document "Voyage of St Brendan the Navigator", Saint Brandon set sail westward from this point in the 6th Century, and traveled into the Atlantic.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Adventurer Tim Severin took a five-man crew across the atlantic to prove the legendary voyage of St Brendan was possible in the Sixth century. The journey departed May 1976 from Brandon Creek.^[4]

Places in County Kerry

County town: Tralee

Towns	Killarney Listowel Tralee

Parishes, Villages and Townlands	Abbeydorney Annascaul Ardfert Asdee Ballydavid Ballinskelligs Ballybunion Ballyduff Ballyferriter Ballyheigue Ballylongford Ballymacelligott Ballyseedy Blennerville Brandon Creek Brandon Brosna Caherboshina Caherdaniel Cahersiveen Camp Castlecove Castlegregory Castleisland Castlemaine Causeway Chapeltown Cloghane Coolgarriv Currans Currow Derrymore Derrynane Dingle Duagh Dunquin Doonshean Fahamore Farranfore Fenit Feothanach Finuge Fossa Gneeveguilla Kenmare Kilderry Kilflynn Kilgarvan Killorglin Kilmoyley Knightstown Knocknagoshel Lispole Lisselton Lixnaw Milltown Moyvane Portmagee Rathmore Scraggane Sneem Tarbert Tarmon Templenoe Tuosist Valentia Island Ventry Waterville

Islands	Beginish Blasket Islands‎ Deenish Fenit Innisfallen Magharee Islands Puffin Scariff Skellig Islands Valentia

List of townlands in County Kerry Category:Geography of County Kerry

References

↑ "Dingle peninsula guide". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
↑ "Saints and Stones". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
↑ "archaeology". Retrieved 11 February 2016.
↑ "RE-rigging St Brendan". Retrieved 11 February 2016.

Coordinates: 52°14′15″N 10°18′40″W / 52.2374°N 10.3111°W / 52.2374; -10.3111

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