If I remember correctly, during the height of the season when all the joints are open, Dingle has the highest concentration of watering holes of any place in Ireland - something like one for every 52 residents. Of course, the place is over-run with tourists during the summer. Many of the allegedly licensed licensed premises supposedly started out as smuggler's dens. Smugglers and their dens are a staple feature of most isolated waterfront communities the world over. Aside from the people, the peninsula has a fascinating natural history as well. Not infrequently brushed by the Gulf Stream, and not glaciated during the Wurm period, era, epoch, or whatever is the correct term.