On the improvement of that domain he expended, it was said, not less than ten thousand pounds.

The little town which he founded, named from the bay of Kenmare, stood at the head of that bay, under a mountain ridge, on the summit of which travellers now stop to gaze upon the loveliest of the three lakes of Killarney.
Scarcely any village, built by an enterprising band of New Englanders, far from the dwellings of their countrymen, in the midst of the hunting grounds of the Red Indians, was more completely out of the pale of civilisation than Kenmare.

Between Petty's settlement and the nearest English habitation the journey by land was of two days through a wild and dangerous country.

Yet the place prospered.

Forty-two houses were erected.