Fenit Bathing Slip

This has traditionally a place for having a dip in the cooling Atlantic waters including an annual Christmas swim.
On the 8th of August, 1922, during the Irish Civil War, Fenit was the scene of a major seabourne landing by over 1000 Free State troops, as part of an offensive to re-take Kerry and the Republican held province of Munster.

A large bronze sculpture of Saint Brendan, the Navigator, was erected in 2004 on Great Samphire Island, the rock around which the harbour was built. Saint Brendan was probably born on Fenit Island just north west of the village.