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Killarney [=Cill Airne] means Church of the Sloes (<i>Prunus spinosa</I>). The church was one of three churches in the valley which were amalgamated in the early 1600s, possibly as a result of the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII. The three blue diamonds may represent these churches. Another explanation for the diamonds is the three Lakes of Killarney which have made the region the premier tourist site in Ireland since the mid 1800s. | Killarney [=Cill Airne] means Church of the Sloes (<i>Prunus spinosa</I>). The church was one of three churches in the valley which were amalgamated in the early 1600s, possibly as a result of the suppression of the monasteries by Henry VIII. The three blue diamonds may represent these churches. Another explanation for the diamonds is the three Lakes of Killarney which have made the region the premier tourist site in Ireland since the mid 1800s. | ||