Kenmare If Anywhere . . . Name Kenmare was given the name Kenmare at the suggestions of a daughter of one of the Soo Line officials who went through here on one of the first passenger trains to make the trip after the road was opened. She had done some traveling in Europe and remembered a town called Kenmare in Ireland was located scenically very much like this town. So, Kenmare was adopted as the name. Kenmare means, "forever more". Previous names such as Lignite after the coal mines, and Tolley, after E.C. Tolley, were abandoned.
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