Kerry set to be a scene stealer in latest ‘Star Wars’ film

It may be Star Wars: Episode VIII but this is the third successive year the Force has arrived in Kerry with its dramatic scenery hosting the Jedi the longest.

Kerry set to be a scene stealer in latest ‘Star Wars’ film

Ceann Sibéal, the headland called after the wife of the swashbuckling, cosmopolitan, multilingual 17th-century poet and landowner Piaras Feritear, who was hanged in Killarney, is the location for a whole Star Wars village, complete with a replica of Skellig Michael off Iveragh where filming took place previously.

Buzzing with activity the Ceann Sibéal set was lit up until well past midnight with cranes and scaffolding and huge trucks coming and going along a 1.5km metal roadway.

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