A monument commemorating the 1798 rebellion - a statue of a Pikeman by Albert Power - stands in Denny Street.

The modern layout of Tralee was created in the 19th Century. Denny Street, a wide Georgian street was completed in 1826 on the site of the old castle.

Tralee courthouse was designed by Sir Richard Morrison and built in 1835. It has a monument of two cannons commemorating those Kerrymen who died in the Crimean war (1854-1856) and the Indian Rebellion (1857).

The Ashe Memorial Hall sits at one end of Denny Street, dedicated to the memory of Thomas Ashe - an Irish Volunteers officer in the Easter Rising of 1916. The building is built of local sandstone and houses the Kerry Museum and a reconstruction of early Tralee.

Tralee saw much violence during the Irish War of Independence and Irish Civil War in 1919-1923. In November 1920, the Black and Tans besieged Tralee in revenge for the IRA abduction and killing of two RIC men. The Tans closed all the businesses in the town and did not let any food in for a week. In addition they burned several houses and all businesses connected with nationalist activists. In the course of the week, they shot dead three local people. The incident caused major international outcry when reported by the press, who wrote that near famine conditions were prevailing in Tralee by the end of the week.

In 1923, during the Irish Civil War an infamous atrocity was carried out by Free State troops near Tralee when 9 anti-treaty IRA prisoners were taken from the prison in Tralee and blown up with a land mine at nearby Ballyseedy.

Tourism

Tralee is accepted as being Ireland’s newest tourism destination and has seen some €55 million of tourism investment over the past several years. The town has developed a range of quality all weather visitor attractions. Tralee is also famous for the Rose of Tralee International Festival which is held annually in August.

Amenities include:

Kerry County Museum – incorporating the theme park 'Kerry: The Kingdom' and an exhibit which depicts life in medieval Geraldine Tralee.

Siamsa Tire-Folk theatre – offering traditional music and plays in Irish.

Blennerville Windmill located about 2 km outside the town, Ireland's largest still functioning windmill.

Tralee Aquadome - A large indoor water leisure facility with a mini-golf course, located near Fels point, just off the Dan Spring road, at the Western exit from the town. The Sliabh Mish mountain range acts as a pretty backdrop to the site.

Tralee-Dingle Railway - Departures also take place from the Aquadome site for trips on the restored part of the old Tralee to Dingle Railway. Local enthusiasts have brought back an original Hunslet steam engine from the USA to relive the days when the Tralee to Dingle line carried goods and passengers along the famous narrow-gauge picturesque route before it was finally closed in 1953. Visitors can take a short train ride in carriages imported from Spain pulled by the puffing Hunslet a few miles out to the Tralee Bay village of Blennerville. Here the restored Blennerville Windmill and Museum house a fascinating look into Tralee's historical past as a gateway to the new world in the 19th century. Nearby the Windmill stands the yard where the Jeanie Johnston wooden sailing ship replica was completed in 2002. The new Jeanie Johnston ship is now based in Dublin city docklands.

Jeanie Johnston Sailing Ship - The original Irish emigrant sailing ship was built in Quebec in 1847. Jeanie Johnston was a triple-masted ship designed to carry 200 passengers and a crew of 17. A local firm of John Donovan & Sons of Tralee, bought her to operate as a passenger ship and a cargo vessel. The Jeanie Johnston was used as a passenger ship from Ireland to Baltimore, New York and Quebec. On the return leg of each voyage the ship usually carried timber from North America to Tralee. During the bleak winter of 1848 the ship brought food supplies from New York to Tralee to ease the famine conditions of that year. During those times of the Great Hunger, the Jeanie Johnston made 16 trans-Atlantic voyages. Unlike many "coffin ships" of that era, the Jeanie Johnston held a proud reputation, having never lost a single passenger or crew.