The family run Kirbys Lanterns Hotel, overlooking the Majestic Shannon Estuary, is an ideal tourist base for Kerry, Limerick and Clare is located located on the Glin/Tarbert coast road, Tarbert Co. Kerry. Enjoy a stay at Kirby's Lanterns Hotel. Superb accomodation, great food and friendly service. Music sessions every weekend. Call to Kirby's Lanterns Hotel where a warm welcome always awaits you.

Significant interest to naval people
The story:
John Paul Jones was an American naval hero who preyed on British shipping during the Revolutionary War, he had a reputation as a resourceful and successful raider. So notorius did he become that he was known to the British as "The Yankee Pirate". In 1776, after sinking a ship in Carlingford Lough he was pursued by two British gun boats.
Weather conditions were very bad and he was forced to take shelter in the Shannon Estuary - in Tarbert Bay. The gunboats anchored outside the bay and kept watch through the night. They intended to capture John Paul Jones at dawn. The ever resourceful John Paul Jones sent his men ashore with instructions to hang the ships lanterns high in nearby woods. The marines assumed that the lighted lanterns were those of the anchored "Providence".
The daring colourful hero, John Paul Jones sailed out of Tarbert Bay under cover of darkness past the waiting gunboats. It was not until dawn that the marines realised that once again they had been outmanoeuvered by John Paul Jones. Kirbys Lanterns Hotel overlooks the very bay that Jones escaped from.