Fires destroy one third of Killarney National Park's landmass
It comes as the fires are now almost fully extinguished
Heritage and wildlife groups are now calling for a full investigation to be carried out into the blaze, which started on Friday night.
The government says it's doubling the number of wildlife rangers working at parks across Ireland to prevent further fires.
Kerry's Chief Fire Officer Andrew Macilwraith says they're now working to ensure no embers reignite at the park:
"The damping and wetting down areas to help prevent reignition. What really changed things this evening is that the high level fire we were like air support. The wind was blowing very very strongly, which meant that the experts were difficult to put them out is moving so fast, where as, it dropped down the mountain last night which allowed us to tackle it with a heavy ground crew so foreground crews went in. And we knocked it out by early this morning."
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