Fascinating Kerry murder stories recalled

Killings were not common in Co Kerry’s past, but were often brutal — perhaps the influence of Civil War carnage, says Richard Fitzpatrick.

TRUE crime author Anthony Galvin’s Ring of Death: Famous Kerry Murders will be published tomorrow. Galvin was surprised how few murder cases there have been in Kerry, since the State’s foundation in 1922, compared to other counties.

“There were some brutal ones, like the case that the film, The Field, is based on, and the farmer who was killed by his brother and thrown down a well in Dooneen, near Killarney.