Exploring Ireland 7 Day Tour
Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork, Kerry, Clare, Westmeath, Return to Dublin.
Day 1 – Dublin
Highlights
- Trinity College Dublin
- The Book of Kells
- Chester Beatty Library
- Temple Bar
- Guinness Storehouse
- Old Jameson Distillery
- National Museum of Ireland
- Christchurch Cathedral
- Kilmainham Jail
With a glut of boutique hotels, great shopping, mighty bars and some of the country’s most sophisticated restaurants, Dublin is fast becoming the premier city destination in Europe. Wander the maze of cobbled streets in Temple Bar, slurp a ‘pint of plain’ in the Guinness storehouse, marvel at the world famous Book of Kells, lose yourself in the Chester Beatty library – Dublin will not disappoint.
Day 2 – Wicklow & Kilkenny
Highlights
- Wicklow driving tour
- Glendalough
- Powerscourt House
- Avondale House
- Avoca Handweavers
Snugly tucked underneath bustling Dublin, Wicklow performs its role as green retreat to delightful perfection. Vanish over the towering gaps and enter a magical world of babbling brooks and wooded thickets, of affable villages and languid taverns. Time trickles by here, the land being parcelled out between ancient Christian sites and courtly period houses.
Kilkenny Highlights
* Kilkenny Castle
* Medieval Kilkenny City
* Kilkenny’s Traditional Irish Music Pubs
Kilkenny City is Ireland’s most authentic medieval towns; Kilkenny Castle, St. Canice’s Cathedral and the Black Abbey have being residing here since the thirteenth century. Remarkably these ancient structures rest seamlessly with hip bars, chic restaurants and fashionable boutiques. Pull up a high chair, grasp your pint of Kilkenny and make lifelong friends with the soon to be familiar locals.
Day 3 – Waterford & Cork
Highlights
- Waterford City
- Lismore Castle
The Vikings first visited here in 852AD and tourists have being coming ever since. Reginald’s Tower dominates the skyline, gazing over the bustling River Suir and the narrow medieval lanes of the Viking’s triangle. Waterford Crystal, the awesome gem in Waterford’s wonderful crown, is a magical world of precious glass blowers and elegant engravers.
Cork Highlights
Blarney Castle
Cobh Heritage Centre
Cork
The Old Midleton Whiskey Distillery
Cork City is over 800 years old and is an artistic city home to the Cork Opera House and numerous galleries and theatres. Snug bars hosting impromptu traditional music sessions neighbour chic restaurants serving Atlantic catch and racks of Kerry lamb. Wild and epic landscape pours in every direction across the county from the capital. Plant a smacker on the Blarney Stone and gain the ‘gift of the gab’ to enable you to compete with the sharp wit of the Corkonians.
Day 4 – Kerry
Highlights
- The Ring of Kerry
- Staigue Fort
- Killarney National Park
- Muckross House & Gardens
- Killarney’s Traditional Music Pubs
The kingdom of Kerry is a land of chattering dolphins, beautiful women called Rose
and oh by the way the King is a goat! Indeed this is a Kingdom with a difference! Windswept and wild, rugged and romantic – this is the mythical Ireland of dreams.
Day 5 – Clare
Highlights
- Bunratty Castle & Folk Park
- Cliffs of Moher
- The Poulnabrone Dolmen
- The Burren
- Doolin Village
From her regal Cliffs of Moher defiantly challenging the awesome Atlantic to her exceptional Burren smothering the very Earth, Clare is a beguiling beauty. Explore the Aillwee caves which burrow for endless miles into her very heart, feast like a King at Bunratty Castle or discover the source of Irish traditional music and unearth the terrific essence of Clare.
Day 6 – Westmeath/Meath
Highlights
- Newgrange Passage Tombs
- Fore Monastic Sight
- Belvedere House & Gardens
Bashful in nature, Westmeath is Ireland’s best-kept secret. Legends abound in this beautiful county splattered with innumerable lakes, from the jealous walls of Belvedere House and the Children of Lir on the shores of Lough Derravaragh to the Seven Wonders of Fore and the Gothic romance of Tullynally Castle.
Day 7 – Departure
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