Kerry County Development Board:   Membership

  • Agriculture/Farming Sector
  • Community & Voluntary Sector
  • Cork/Kerry Tourism
  • Department of Social, Community & Family Affairs
  • Employers/Business Sector
  • Enterprise Ireland
  • FÁS
  • Garda Siochána, Kerry Divisionv IDA Ireland
  • IRD Duhallow
  • Kerry County Council
  • Kerry County Enterprise Board
  • Kerry Education Service (VEC)
  • Killarney Town Council.
  • Listowel Town Council.
  • Meitheal Forbartha na Gaeltachta
  • North Kerry Together
  • Partnership Trá Lív Shannon Development
  • Sliabh Luachra ADM
  • South Kerry Development Partnership Ltd.
  • Southern Health Boardv Teagasc
  • Trade Union Sector
  • Tralee Town Council.
  • Tuatha Chiarraí
  • Údarás na Gaeltachta


Kerry County Development Board

Mission Statement

"To enhance the quality of life of the people of Kerry through economic, social and cultural progress by developing, agreeing and monitoring the implementation of a Strategy which will be inclusive, integrated and environmentally sustainable."


The meaning of "Meitheal"


"Meitheal" is a term which is derived from the co-operative labour system in rural Ireland. The term is recorded from twenty-two of the thirty-two counties, County Kerry being one of the twenty-two. In all cases meitheal means a team of more than three workers. Meitheal generally refers to any team of people and not necessarily those convened for co-operative labour. (source:A study of Co-operative Labour in Rural Ireland; Ms. Anne O'Dowd;published 1981)