Holding(s) in Company

Standard Form TR-1
Voting rights attached to shares- Article 12(1) of directive
2004/109/EC
Financial instruments - Article 11(3) of the Commission Directive
2007/14/EC[i]
1. Identity of the issuer or the underlying issuer of existing shares
to which voting rights are attached [ii]:  Kenmare Resources Plc

2. Reason for the notification (please tick the appropriate box or
boxes):
[x ]    an acquisition or disposal of voting rights
[ ]       an acquisition or disposal of financial instruments which
may result in the acquisition of shares already issued to which
voting rights are attached
[ ]       an event changing the breakdown of voting rights
3. Full name of person(s) subject to the notification
obligation[iii]: FMR LLC and Fidelity International Limited and their
direct subsidiaries

4. Full name of shareholder(s) (if different from 3.)[iv]:

5.  Date of the transaction and date on which the threshold is
crossed or reached[v]: 05 December 2007

6. Date on which issuer notified; 10 December 2007

7.  Threshold(s) that is/are crossed or reached: 3%

8.  Notified details:


+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+
|A) Voting rights attached to shares                                                                       |
|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Class/type of shares|Situation previous to the  |Resulting situation after the triggering transaction[vii]|
|(if possible using  |Triggering transaction [vi]|                                                         |
|the ISIN CODE)      |---------------------------+---------------------------------------------------------|
|                    |Number of     |Number of   |Number of |Number of voting rights[xi]|% of voting rights|
|                    |Shares[viii]  |Voting      |shares[x] |                           |                  |
|                    |              |rights[ix]  |----------+---------------------------+------------------|
|                    |              |            |Indirect  |Direct[xii] |Indirect[xiii]|Direct  |Indirect |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+----------+------------+--------------+--------+---------|
|IE0004879486        |20,957,849    |20,957,849  |20,534,251|            |20,534,251    |        |2.95     |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+----------+------------+--------------+--------+---------|
|                    |              |            |          |            |              |        |         |
|--------------------+--------------+------------+----------+---------------------------+------------------|
|SUBTOTAL A (based on|20,957,849    |20,957,849  |20,534,251|20,534,251                 |2.95              |
|aggregate voting    |              |            |          |                           |                  |
|rights)             |              |            |          |                           |                  |
+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+



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|B) Financial Instruments                                                       |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Resulting situation after the triggering transaction[xiv]                      |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
|Type of   |Expiration|Exercise/Conversion |Number of voting rights that |% of  |
|financial |Date[xv]  |Period/ Date[xvi]   |may be acquired if the       |voting|
|instrument|          |                    |instrument is                |rights|
|          |          |                    |exercised/converted          |      |
|----------+----------+--------------------+-----------------------------+------|
|          |          |                    |                             |      |
|----------+----------+--------------------+-----------------------------+------|
|          |          |                    |                             |      |
|---------------------+--------------------+-----------------------------+------|
|                     |SUBTOTAL B (in      |                             |      |
|                     |relation to all     |                             |      |
|                     |expiration dates)   |                             |      |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+



+------------------------------------------------------------+
| Total (A+B) | number of voting rights | % of voting rights |
|-------------+-------------------------+--------------------|
|             |                         |                    |
+------------------------------------------------------------+


9. Chain of controlled undertakings through which the voting rights
and/or the financial instruments  are effectively held, if
applicable[xvii]: See attached schedule

10. In case of proxy voting:  FMR LLC and Fidelity International
Limited will acquire to hold 423,598 voting rights as of 05 December
2007.

11. Additional information:
Done at [place] on [date].







Annex to the standard form TR-1 [xviii]

a)  Identity of the person or legal entity subject to the
notification obligation:

Full name (including legal form for   FMR LLC and Fidelity
legal entities)                       International Limited (FIL)
Contact address (registered office    FMR LLC - 82 Devonshire Street,
for legal entities)                   Boston, MA, 02109 USA
                                      FIL - Pembroke Hall, 42 Crow
                                      Lane, Pembroke, HM19 Bermuda
Phone number                          44 (0) 1737 837 149
Other useful information (at least    Company Secretary
legal representative for legal
persons)


b) Identity of the notifier, if applicable[xix]:

Full name                             FMR LLC and Fidelity
                                      International Limited (FIL)
Contact address                       Windmill Court XTW2B, Millfield
                                      Lane, Lower Kingswood,
                                      Tadworth, Surrey KT20 6RB
Phone number                          44 (0) 1737 837 149
Other useful information (e.g.
functional relationship with the      Authorised to make this filing
person or legal entity subject to the under power of attorney
notification obligation)


c) Additional information


Fidelity

Issuer name: KENMARE
RESOURCES PLC

Current ownership               2.95%
percentage:

Total shares held:         20,534,251

Issued share capital:     695,923,464

                          SHARES HELD   NOMINEE            MANAGEMENT
                                                           COMPANY

Fidelity International                  BANK OF NEW YORK
Limited (FIL) is the          409,500   BRUSSELS           FPM
parent
holding company for                     BROWN BROS
various direct and          7,981,651   HARRIMN LTD LUX    FIL
indirect
subsidiaries, including       336,600   BROWN BROTHERS     FIJ
Fidelity Fund Management                HARRIMAN AND CO
Limited (FFML), Fidelity    1,032,100   CITIBANK LONDON    FPM
Investment Services Ltd
(FISL), Fidelity Gestion    1,088,300   JP MORGAN,         FIL
(FIGEST), Fidelity                      BOURNEMOUTH
Investments Advisory        5,573,800   JP MORGAN,         FISL
(Korea) Limited (FIAKL),                BOURNEMOUTH
Fidelity Investments        1,472,300   JP MORGAN,         FPM
Management (Hong Kong)                  BOURNEMOUTH
Limited (FIMHK), Fidelity   2,640,000   MELLON BANK N.A.   FMRCO
Pension Management
(FPM), Fidelity
Investments Japan (FIJ)
and Fidelity
Investments International
(FII), investment
managers
for various non-US
investment companies and
institutional clients.

FMR Corp is the parent
holding company of
Fidelity
Management & Research
Company (FMRCO),
investment
manager for US mutual
funds, and Fidelity
Management Trust
Company (FMTC) and
Pyramis Global Advisors
Trust Company
(PGATC), a US state
chartered bank which acts
as a trustee
or investment manager of
various pension and trust
accounts
and Pyramis Global
Advisors LLC (PGALLC).










 Notes to Form TR-1


[i]  This form is to be sent to the issuer or underlying issuer and
to be filed with the competent authority.

[ii]  Either the full name of the legal entity or another method for
identifying the issuer or underlying issuer, provided it is reliable
and accurate.

[iii]  This should be the full name of (a) the shareholder; (b) the
natural person or legal entity acquiring, disposing of or exercising
voting rights in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h) of
Directive 2004/109/EC; (c) all the parties to the agreement referred
to in Article 10 (a) of that Directive, or (d) the holder of
financial instruments entitled to acquire shares already issued to
which voting rights are attached, as appropriate.

In relation to the transactions referred to in points (b) to (h) of
Article 10 of that Directive, the following list is provided as
indication of the persons who should be mentioned:

- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (b) of Article 10 of that
Directive, the natural person or legal entity that acquires the
voting rights and is entitled to exercise them under the agreement
and the natural person or legal entity who is transferring
temporarily for consideration the voting rights;

- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (c) of Article 10 of that
Directive, the natural person or legal entity holding the collateral,
provided the person or entity controls the voting rights and declares
its intention of exercising them, and natural person or legal entity
lodging the collateral under these conditions;

- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (d) of Article 10 of that
Directive, the natural person or legal entity who has a life interest
in shares if that person or entity is entitled to exercise the voting
rights attached to the shares and the natural person or legal entity
who is disposing of the voting rights when the life interest is
created;

- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (e) of Article 10 of that
Directive, the controlling natural person or legal entity and,
provided it has a notification duty at an individual level under
Article 9, under letters (a) to (d) of Article 10 of that Directive
or under a combination of any of those situations, the controlled
undertaking;

- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (f) of Article 10 of that
Directive, the deposit taker of the shares, if he can exercise the
voting rights attached to the shares deposited with him at his
discretion, and the depositor of the shares allowing the deposit
taker to exercise the voting rights at his discretion;

- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (g) of Article 10 of that
Directive, the natural person or legal entity that controls the
voting rights;

- in the circumstances foreseen in letter (h) of Article 10 of that
Directive, the proxy holder, if he can exercise the voting rights at
his discretion, and the shareholder who has given his proxy to the
proxy holder allowing the latter to exercise the voting rights at his
discretion.
[iv]  Applicable in the cases provided for in Article 10 (b) to (h)
of Directive 2004/109/EC. This should be the full name of the
shareholder who is the counterparty to the natural person or legal
entity referred to in Article 10 of that Directive unless the
holdings of the shareholder would be lower than 5% of the total
number of voting rights.

[v]  The date of the transaction should normally be, in the case of
an on exchange transaction, the date on which the matching of orders
occurs; in the case of an off exchange transaction, date of the
entering into an agreement.

The date on which threshold is crossed should normally be the date on
which the acquisition, disposal or possibility to exercise voting
rights takes effect. For passive crossings, the date when the
corporate event took effect.

[vi]  Please refer to the situation disclosed in the previous
notification. In case the situation previous to the triggering
transaction was below 3%, please state "below 3%".

[vii]  If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the
notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the
holding, only that the new holding is below 3%.

For the case provided for in Article 10(a) of Directive 2004/109/EC,
there should be no disclosure of individual holdings per party to the
agreement unless a party individually crosses or reaches an Article 9
threshold. This applies upon entering into, introducing changes to or
terminating an agreement.

[viii]  To be used in Member States where applicable.

[ix]   Direct and indirect.

[x]   To be used in Member States where applicable.

[xi]  In case of combined holdings of shares with voting rights
attached "direct holding" and voting rights "indirect holding",
please split the voting rights number and percentage into the direct
and indirect columns - if there is no combined holdings, please leave
the relevant box blank.

[xii]  Voting rights attached to shares held by the notifying party
(Article 9 of Directive 2004/109/EC).

[xiii] Voting rights held by the notifying party independently of any
holding of shares (Article 10 of Directive 2004/109/EC).

[xiv]  If the holding has fallen below the minimum threshold, the
notifying party should not be obliged to disclose the extent of the
holding, only that the new holding is below 3%.

[xv]  Date of maturity/expiration of the financial instrument i.e.
the date when right to acquire shares ends.

[xvi]  If the financial instrument has such a period - please specify
this period - for example once every 3 months starting from [date].

[xvii]  The notification should include the name(s) of the controlled
undertakings through which the voting rights are held. The
notification should also include the amount of voting rights and the
percentage held by each controlled undertaking, insofar as
individually the controlled undertaking holds 3% or more, and insofar
as the notification by the parent undertaking is intended to cover
the notification obligations of the controlled undertaking.

[xviii]   This annex is only to be filed with the competent
authority.

[xix]  Whenever another person makes the notification on behalf of
the shareholder or the natural person/legal entity  referred to in
Articles 10 and 13 of Directive 2004/109/EC

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