title in 2007 and made history by becoming the first Kerry hurling team to win a Munster Club hurling game at any level in over forty years. Kilgarvan continued in the Munster Junior Club Hurling Championship in 2008 and reached the Munster final becoming the first Kerry hurling team ever to do so. Kilgarvan has its own GAA pitch and facilities including an all weather training track and dressing rooms, extensive drainage work was carried out on the pitch in 2008. Events The Annual Kilgarvan Show is held on the Sunday of the August Bank Holiday Weekend. The show has been held in the Fussa Townland since 2007, having previously been held in the local GAA grounds. Recent wet summers in Ireland have seen many shows cancelled and Kilgarvan Show had to be rescheduled in 2007 as a result of the wet weather. Energy A number of wind turbines have been built in the Parish of Kilgarvan, all concentrated in the Incheese/top of Coom area close to the County bounds with Cork. Some claim that the turbines have caused disruption to television reception in Kilgarvan. When these turbines are fully completed, Kilgarvan will be home to the largest onshore wind turbine project in Ireland. People Michael J. Quill (1905–1966): Was born in Kilgarvan, New York Labour leader, founder of the Transport Workers Union of America. Máirín Quill (*1936): Former politician who served as a TD and Senator for the Progressive Democrats is originally from Kilgarvan. Sir Richard John Theodore Orpen (1788-1876): Since 1868 Knight of Tully, was one of the principal lessors in the parishes of Kenmare and Kilgravan. In the 1870s his estate amounted to over 12,000 acres in county Kerry as well as 300 acres in county Cork. He built "Ardtully House" in 1847 outside Kilgarvan. Sir Richard Orpen was a grandfather of the famous painter Sir William Orpen, the great uncle of the Irish historian Goddard Henry Orpen and a brother of Dr. Charles Orpen (1791-1856) who founded the "Claremont Institution", the first Institution for the Deaf and Dumb in Ireland at Glasnevin near Dublin. Healy-Rae: Kilgarvan is the base of the Healy-Rae family, which owns several local businesses. Patriarch Jackie was succeeded as a Teachta Dála by his sons Danny and Michael. Film Kilgarvan was featured in The Wind That Shakes the Barley which was shot primarily in Cork but featured a part filmed in (Meeng