This was a 14.4-km (9-mi) monorail built on the Lartigue principle in County Kerry in Ireland. It linked Listowel and Ballybunion; it opened on 1 March 1888.

The locomotives were of the 0-6-0 type (strictly speaking, '0-3-0'), constructed by the Hunslet Engine Company. They were specially built with two boilers in order to balance on the track. Loads also had to be evenly balanced. If a farmer wanted to send a cow to market, he would have to send two calves to balance it, which would travel back on opposite sides of the same freight wagon, thereby balancing each other.

Another problem with using the Lartigue system in populated areas was that, due to the track's design, it was not possible to build level crossings. In order for a road to cross the track, a kind of double-sided drawbridge had to be constructed, which required an attendant to operate it.

The line closed in 1924 after the track was damaged during the Irish Civil War, and everything was scrapped except a short section of the track.

Listowel Castle – Located adjacent to the Seanchaí Centre in The Square, this 15th century Castle overlooking The Square was built as a fortress by the Anglo Norman Earls of Kerry, the Fitzmaurices. It ceased to be a significant defence in 1559.

Two architectural features are worthy of not – there is the unusual two turrets joined, a feature shared with Bunratty Castle in County Clare. The other, that of the sculptured head is thought, by some, to represent an ape rather than a person. Credence can be given to this if one believes the legend relating to Maurice’s second cousin, Tomás an Ápa, father of the first Earl of Desmond. The story goes that after the Battle of Callan in 1261 Tomás was cared for by an ape who was a household pet. And there are other legends – and the protruding stone with its sculpted head holds the secret.

The Fitzmaurice family began what was to be a long association with Listowel Castle at the end of the 13th Century. Though the principal family seats were at Ardfert and Lixnaw, Listowel was of tremendous strategic importance to them, since they were constantly feuding both with their neighbours, the Desmonds and the O’Neills, but also with the Crown Forces.

Since Listowel Castle was built on the North bank of the River Feale, where the river could be forded, it provided a stronghold to control the movements of visiting would-be marauders across the Anglo-Irish neighbours – the English Crown ignored them all, happy to accept only nominal allegiance.

But the end came on the 5th November, 1600, when, after centuries of turmoil, the Castle fell to an English force under the command of Sir Charles Wilmot after a 28 day siege. So, the Castle fell and a village began. It later grew into a town – Listowel. All that remains of this national monument is a fine façade, which originally was the guards and servants quarters. Recently renovated by the Office of Public Works, guided tours of the Castle are available daily from June to September.

St. John's Theatre - in 1988 a local voluntary commitee began the transformation of the then Church of Ireland building into what is now St. John's Theatre & Art Centre with the restoration completed in 1990.

Since then, St. John's has become a premier venue in the South West for the promotion of a monthly programme of Visual and Performing Arts, featuring the best local, national and international product in theatre, Music, Dance and Exhibitions.

St. John's also cater Primary and Post Primary students with an educational programme that is run weekly during the school year and during the months of July and August a drama and summer school is also run with follow-up stage presentations.

The Seanchaí – Kerry Literary & Cultural Centre is a visitor attraction in the Heritage Town of Listowel which presents the works of the great Kerry writers in a unique audio-visual experience.

Located in a 19th century Georgian residence in Listowel’s magnificent Square, the Centre features five of the County Kerry’s most esteemed writers – John B. Keane, Bryan MacMahon, George Fitzmaurice, Brendan Kennelly and Maurice Walsh.

The writings of these national and internationally renowned literary figures are filled with an abundance of rich characters, humour, romance and tragedy drawn from the towns and villages of North Kerry.

The words of the writers will make you laugh and cry, but above all you will come away from your visit to Seanchaí with a sense of the people and places that shaped Kerry’s literary genius.

The Dandy Lodge - This nineteenth century cottage, now located in the Town Park was originally located on the other side of the Bridge Road. The cottage was in danger of being knocked and was manually moved stone by stone and reconstructed on its new location in 1997.

The cottage was the gate lodge to the manor of the agents of Lord Listowel and it was identified as the first house in Bridge Road in the Ordinance Survey map of 1887.

This graveyard lies about a quarter of a mile outside Listowel on the Ballybunion Road and is sign posted Teampaillín Ban (the little white churchyard) is the famine Graveyard where many nameless victims of the Irish Famine 1845-47 were interred in mass graves.

A local artist, Cliodhna Cussen has designed commemorative gates which have been put at the entrance.

The Garden of Europe, Listowel's - hidden treasure, occupies a secluded former landfill site in the Town Park.

In 1995 it was transformed into Garden of Europe to commemorate, with the rest of Europe, the ending of World War II. Twelve mini-gardens, one for each member of the European Union, are filled with over 3000 trees and plants.

The garden also has a bust of the poet, Schiller, and Ireland’s only Holocaust Memorial. The garden is also a winner of the Tidy Towns National Landscapes Award.