10 Day Irish Road Tour 2024
Welcome to our 10 day Irish Road Tour. We are booked out for 2023, but we are now taking bookings for 2024. As with our 7 Day tour, this is only a recommendation because you decide the length of your tour and the level of accommodation you wish to enjoy. Whatever you choose, the tour begins and ends in Dublin and throughout you will be staying in great locations and savouring unique local pubs and restaurants. Our mission is to give you the best possible experience and an unforgettable holiday. Please contact us via email to discuss your vacation. Please note: this is a unique itinerary and we can modify the tour to include Northern Ireland, and a trip to Skellig Michael.
Day 1
We begin our Irish Road Tour with a panoramic tour of Dublin. Some of the highlights include O’Connell Street and the GPO, The Custom House, Trinity College, Christ Church, St Patricks Cathedral and Áras an Uachtaráin (residence of our President). We head out of Dublin to visit Newgrange for a guided tour of this prehistoric monument that predates the Pyramids. Overnight in Co. Cavan.
Day 2
With so much to see in Donegal we take the road north to the Inishowen Peninsula. We will visit Malin Head, Doagh Famine Village and Grianan an Ailleach. We will also take you to some of the best, and deserted, natural beaches in the world. We can offer pony trekking on this day and if our guests choose that option we can alter the itinerary accordingly. Overnight in Co. Donegal.
Day 3
By now you will have realised there is something special about Donegal (incredibly, it’s absent from most tour company maps!). The day will be packed full of secret locations and astonishing sights as we zig zag inland and around the coast to Sliabh Liag, the highest sea cliffs on the mainland. We want to keep some of our locations secret so we can’t say any more than that! We overnight again in Co. Donegal.
Day 4
We slowly move south, pausing for a coffee at Drumcliff to visit the resting place of W.B. Yeats. We make for Cong in Co. Mayo (home of The Quiet Man). After lunch we take the road to Connemara where we will visit Leenane (we’ll tell you about The Field over a pint in Gaynors), Killary Harbour and the impossibly romantic Kylemore Abbey. We overnight in Galway, also known as City of the Tribes, where you can visit one or two of our favourite pubs for traditional Irish music.
Day 5
We continue south to the wilds of County Clare and the Burren National Park. We will visit Poulnabrone Dolmen, one of Ireland’s most iconic archaeological monuments, and take a guided tour of the Ailwee Caves before pausing for lunch via a secret faerie wood (you think we’re joking?). We wind our way down the coast to the iconic Cliffs of Moher and afterwards head south to cross the mighty Shannon estuary by ferry. Check into the lively town of Killarney for the night.
Day 6
This is the day for the Dingle Peninsula and the epic Slea Head Drive. Along the way we visit famine era cottages, 2500 year old Dún Beag Fort and Ionad an Bhlascaoid Mhóir - the Blasket Centre. And you might just spot the film location of Ryan’s Daughter, Star Wars and Far and Away! The Dingle Peninsula would not be complete without a stop at the enigmatic Gallarus Oratory before we take you to Brandon Creek where Brendan the Navigator set off to discover The Garden of Eden. Overnight in Killarney.
Day 7
Time is going too fast at this stage but we must move on to County Cork, and we get there via the magnificent Ring of Kerry. We thought long and hard about including the famous Ring of Kerry in our road tour, but despite being a heavily tramped tourist trail we decided it was too beautiful not to include in the tour. Don’t worry though, we have a few tricks up our sleeves to avoid the masses. Overnight in Glengarriff.
Day 8
We’re now in Co. Cork and today we head out onto the wild Beara Peninsula. This is our home county so we know many secrets about this astonishing part of Ireland. Of course, we fully intend to share them with you! Overnight in the delightful coastal village of Kinsale.
Day 9
The Road Tour heads north to Co. Wicklow, but first we take a whiskey tasting tour of the famous Jameson Distillery at Middleton. We then head north to Cashel of the Kings, also known as The Rock of Cashel, traditional seat of the kings of Munster. Overnight in Co. Wicklow.
Day 10
Our tenth day begins with a tear or two, but we’re not quite finished with you yet. We are in the Garden of Ireland where we will visit Avoca village, Avondale House - birthplace of Charles Stewart Parnell - and the ancient village of Glendalough. Tour Ends in Dublin.
Tour Price 2022:
The cost of your tour will depend on the type of accommodation you wish to include. We can book anything from good three-star hotels to fabulous castles. We can also offer a mixture of accommodation throughout your tour.