The picturesque Ballydavid pier and beach on the northern side of Smerwick Harbour is a favourite with both locals and holiday makers. With two bars that serve food, a small pier and secluded beach this is the perfect place for walkers to enjoy a meal and a rest as they pass here on the Dingle Way walking trail.

Traditional naomhógs - small canvas covered boats are raced here every summer at Ballydavid Regatta.Fishermen still use the pier and there are sea angling and boat trips available in summer.

Fágann naomhóga beaga cé Bhaile na nGall ar luas lasrach gach samhraidh chun dul ag rásaíocht i Regatta
Bhaile na nGall. Úsáideann lucht iascaigh an ché agus bíonn turasanna duántachta ar fáil do chuairteoirí. Tá dhá
thábhairne a chuireann bia ar fáil, agus trá beag cluthar ann chun faoiseamh beag a thabhairt do shiulóirí agus
iad ar Shlí Chorca Dhuibhne.

This is the most important church site on the Dingle Peninsula. The site is traditionally associated with St. Brendan, but was reputedly founded by Maolcethair, whose death is recorded in the Martyrology of Donegal under the year 636. There are no remains of the early monastery except possibly for the Ogham stone with the inscription of "Anm Maile Inbir Maci Brocann". The ruined Romanesque church visible today dates to the first half of the 12th century, and certain features are similar to those found in Cormac's Chapel on the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary. Also visible on the site are a sundial, large stone cross, and alphabet stone (inside the church near the chancel arch). Some fine stone carving can also be found inside the church.

Is é Cill Maoilchéadair an suíomh reiligiúnach is tábhachtaí i gCorca Dhuibhne. Is bainteach le Naomh Bréanainn
is mó a aithnítear an chill seo, ach tá tuairiscí ann gur Naomh Maol Céadair é féin a bhunaigh an áit. Níl mórán
rian den mhainistir luath-Chríostaí seachas, b’fhéidir, an charraig Ogham ar a bhfuil scríte: “Anm Maile Inbir Maci
Brocann” (Ainm Mhaél-Inbhir, Mac Bhroccáin). Is ón chéad leath den 12ú haois an fothrach d’eaglais Rómhánach
agus tá roinnt cosúlacht idir é agus Sáipéilín Chormac i gCaiseal, Co. Thiobraid Árann.

Across the bridge at An Fheothanach/Feohanagh a narrow road leads to Cuas an Bhodaigh or Brandon Creek. This inlet was the legendary starting point of the voyage of St Brendan to America, centuries before Columbus. The account of the voyage of Brendan, the Navigatio, attained enormous fame in medieval Europe and is one of the classic adventure stories of all time, with rich elements of magic and fantasy.In 1977, in a successful attempt to establish the feasibility of such a voyage, a craft made of hides with a crew captained by Tim Severin set out for North America from Brandon Creek.

Síneann bóithrín cúng ón bhFeothanach go Cuas an Bhodaigh, phointe tosaigh ag turas Naomh Bréanainn go
Meiriceá, na céadta bliain roimh am Cholambais. Meastar gur cheann de chlasaicí eachtraíochta na hEorpa
meánaoisí é an Navigatio Sancti Brendani (Loingseoireacht Naomh Bréanainn), cuntas stairiúil ar an turas. Sheol
an staraí agus taiscéalaí Tim Severin ar an turas céanna i 1977, chun a dheimhniú go bhféadfadh a leithéid
d’eachtra tárlú ar naomhóg den leithéid a bhí ag Naomh Bréanainn.

The Gallarus Oratory or Séipéilín Ghallarais, literally ‘the small church of the rock promontory’ is believed to be an early Christian church located on the Dingle Peninsula, County Kerry, Ireland. This famous ' upside down boat-shaped' oratory is the only perfect example of it's type surviving in Ireland. Built of sandstone rubble, the oratory stands in a large stone-walled enclosure on the lower slopes of Lateevemore overlooking the land surrounding Smerwick harbour. Nearby an inscribed early Christian cross slab stands at the head of a leacht. (a rectangular dry stone-faced mound of stone)

Sáipéal luath-Chríostaí é Séipéilín Ghallarais le cruth ‘bhád bun os cionn’ – ceann de na samplaí is fearr dá
leithéid in Éirinn. Seasann an séipéilín ar an Leataoibh Mór ag féachaint i dtreo chuan Ard na Caithne. Seasann
leacht cloiche agus crois luath-Chríostaí chomh maith in aice leis an suíomh.

Caherdorgan Fort is thought to have been built sometime in the 8th or 9th century AD as the home of a fairly strong farmer and his family. The monument consists of a roughly circular wall, within which are five clocháin or circular rooms, built in dry stone, using the corbelling technique. A souterrain (underground passage) was entered via one of the rooms (the southernmost of the 3 conjoined examples), although today it is blocked. These passages would have been used for storage and perhaps to conceal goods or even people, if necessary.

Meastar gur tógadh Dún Chathair Dheargáin am éigin sa 8ú nó an 9ú haois AD, ina thigh ag feirmeoir cuíosach
luafar agus a chlann. Is éard atá sa suíomh ná falla cuarach, ina bhfuil cúig chlochán a tógadh ag úsáid
coirbéaladh. Tá slí isteach in uaimh thalún trí cheann de na clocháin (an ceann is faide ó dheas), ach tá an slí
blocáilte faoin am seo. Théadh daoine i bhfoladh iontu seo agus thugadaís a gcuid earraí leo dá ma ghá.

This part of the Dingle Peninsula is at the heart of the West Kerry Gaeltacht. The national Irish Language radio station 'Radio na Gaeltachta' broadcasts some of it's programmes from studios in Baile na nGall (Ballydavid) where the radio mast has become a local landmark. During the summer months school children from all over Ireland come here to learn Irish and experience Gaeltacht culture and can be seen in groups on the quiet country roads going to classes or activities.

Tá an dúthaigh seo i gcroí-lár Ghaeltacht Chorca Dhuibhne. Craolann an seirbhís náisiúnta raidió Gaeilge ‘RTÉ
Raidió na Gaeltachta’ cuid dá sceideal ó stuideo Bhaile na nGall, áit a bhfuil an crann craolta ina phointe
suntasach san áit. Tagann scoláirí ó cheann ceann na tíre go dtí’n áit chun Gaelainn a chleachtadh agus cultúr
na Gaeltachta a fheiscint, agus feictear go minic iad ar na bóithríní ciúine tuaithe seo ag dul go dtína ranganna
agus imeachtaí.