County Kerry Past And Present. A Handbook to the Local and Family History of The County. Dublin: Hodges, Figgis, [1931]. First Edition. Pp 338, with 16-page Irish-English dictionary by King at end. Publisher’s smooth buckram boards, title in black to spine, neat ownership name to endpaper, content pages age-toned, otherwise a very good copy.

Text printed in double columns on a poor quality paper.

An invaluable source for researchers of family history and local history in Co. Kerry. The author provides details on the origin of placenames and townland names, acreages, surnames of prominent families often with a full geneaology and descriptions of famous individuals and their exploits. He backs up his information with sources many of which are obscure and difficult to locate decades later.

A facsimile edition was published by Mercier Press in 1986.