11 Day Mega Tour of Ireland

Collecting you from the Airport or directly from your Accommodation in Dublin, we’ll start off with a mini tour around Dublin city centre before we head south to Wicklow mountains stopping at various places like Lough Tay aka Guinness Lake, stopping at Glendalough 6th Century monastic site and tour the ruins that was once upon a time thriving up until the 12th century.

Our next stop will be Kilkenny city and 13th century castle. Originally Strongbow built a wooden castle on that site overlooking the River Nore in 1172. Around 30 years later, his son-in-law, the Earl of Pembroke built the first stone castle.

Three of the castle’s original four walls still survive today. The fourth wall on the south side of the Castle is missing also the gatehouse, moat, and tower. The cause of this is because of Cromwell’s attack on the Castle in 1650 and his use of cannon on the building.

Kilkenny City over-night.

Jameson Distillery Midleton.
Enjoy a tour where you will learn about the history and how the whiskey is made at the home of jameson whiskey distillery in Midleton, Co Cork.

Cobh ( Pronounced Cove).
Here you have a few options but my recommendation would be the Titanic Museum Cobh. This was the last port of call for the titanic’s maiden voyage on the 11th April 1912. On 11th April 1912 at 11.30am RMS Titanic dropped anchor in Queenstown, Roches Point outer anchorage. Today named Cobh, the port was the luxury liner’s final port of call on its maiden journey, before setting sail on the longest leg of the voyage to New York, USA.

Kinsale Over-night.

We then driving over the scenic route of Cork and Kerry mountain’s, Caha pass and tunnel road, stopping in Kenmare for refreshment/lunch.

After your refreshment break we continuing our drive taken in part of the Ring of Kerry, Reaching the summit at Moll’s Gap before we decent to Killarney via Killarney National Park.

Killarney Over-night.

Dingle over-night.

After leaving Bunratty Castle we will drive to the famous Cliffs of Moher via world famous Lehinch golf course that over-looks the rolling waves of the Atlantic Ocean. You will have free time to explore the Cliff’s of Moher at your own pace and leisure.

Next stop will be the quaint village of Doolin. Doolin is the traditional music capital of Ireland, gateway to the Cliffs of Moher, the Burren and Aran Islands and the perfect place to spend the night.

Doolin over-night.

Doolin cave contains one of the longest stalactites in europe that is accessible to public visitors (Please note) by 125 steps into and out of the cave, every ten steps there is a landing and a handrail all the way down. The cave began its life hundreds of thousands of years ago when very weakly acidic water flowed off the nearby shale and began dissolving the limestone rock.

Next journey we’ll travel along the burren coastal route and part of the WAW aka Wild Atlantic Way. While hugging the Atlantic Ocean on our left and the Burren to our right all along the west coast of Ireland in Co Clare, this landscape is 250 sq km.

Arriving in Galway City ( 2020 European capital of culture) this is where you will be dropped off at your accommodation for you to explore the famous vibrant street theatre and fantastic food, film and fringe festivities and of course shop street.

Galway City Over-night.

Kylemore Abbey is our next stop where you can enjoy the 1,000 acre estate including a 6 acre victorian walled garden and home to Benedictine order of Nuns for the past 100 years, visitors are welcomed from all over the world each year to embrace the magic of the magnificent estate.

From here we’ll drive through mountain pass and village’s like Louisburgh before we arrive at our next stop Westport.

Westport over-night.

Standing at 601m (1,972ft) looking over the Atlantic Ocean and nearly three times the height of the Cliffs of Moher, the Slieve League Cliffs offer incredible views from their peaks. Are you ready to scale their heady heights?

Donegal town Over-night.

From the site there are spectacular views over Lough Foyle, Lough Swilly and the surrounding countryside. The fort is believed to have been built during the 8th or 9th century.

Next and final stop of the day is Derry where you will learn the history of the walled city and about the day in 1972 that became to be known as bloody Sunday.

Derry Over-night

Next, we visit the Giant’s Causeway — a UNESCO World Heritage Site where you can trace the path of ancient legends and see nature’s work up close.

Next stop is also another G.O.T location, The Dark Hedges, known as King’s Road in the series.

Belfast Over-night.

Dublin over-night.

As always with all our tours, itineraries can be customized to suit everyone’s interests!