"Quite why County Kerry is known as 'The Kingdom', at least to its inhabitants, is lost in the ramifications of Gaelic and the tepidly Tolkeinesque mists that swirl through the mountains from Killarney to the Blasket Islands. Distinction comes, certainly, in the county's biological treasures (Kerry Slug Geomalacus maculosus, Killarney Fern Trichomanes speciosum, Strawberry Tree Arbutus unedo and more) and in the awesome triumphs of its raw-boned Gaelic footbal teams."