Tralee

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/tɹæˈliː//tɹəˈliː/

proper noun

A town in and the county town of County Kerry, Ireland (Irish grid ref Q 8214).

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Meanings

proper noun
  1. A town in and the county town of County Kerry, Ireland (Irish grid ref Q 8214).

    The law was altogether without force in the highlands which lie on the south of the vale of Tralee. No officer of justice willingly ventured into those parts. One pursuivant who in 1680 attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered.

    1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume III, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC, page 138
  2. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.

Origin

  1. IrishTrá Lí
  2. EnglishTralee

From Irish Trá Lí.

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Translations

Arabic ترالي
  • ترالي (trālī)county town
Dutch Tralee
  • Traleecounty town
German Tralee
  • Traleecounty town
Irish Trá Lí, Tráigh Lí
  • Trá Lícounty town
  • Tráigh Lícounty town
Japanese トラリー
  • トラリー (Torarī)county town

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Cite this entry
APA

Tralee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tralee

MLA

“Tralee.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tralee. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Tralee,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Tralee.

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