Last waltz for Kerry dance hall? Or is there a new twist for Tuosist?

A lakeside dance hall, tea room and compact hotel are part of a glorious €400,000 package on Cloonee Lake, outside Kenmare, writes Catherine Shanahan

Dance Hall and tea room and Lake House Tuosist

NOT everyone was enamoured when Francie and Joe O’Shea decided to apply for a dance licence to run a dance hall on the shores of Cloonee Lake.

It was the 1940s, and dance halls were largely regarded as “a menace to morality” by some high profile clergymen, who could oppose the granting of such licences in court.