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Deluxe Tour of Ireland - Sample Itinerary

10 Days / 9 Nights Arrive Dublin, Depart Shannon Please note this is a sample itinerary, we can change any itinerary to suit your needs or supply chauffeur driven transport if you have your own itinerary or accommodation booked. Please use our Contact Form to make an enquiry. See below for our 2005 rates.

You will be greeted by your personal chauffeur for the next 10 days. At your leisure your driver will guide you around Dublin City to view a City over 1000 years old. You will have the choice to visit, The Book of Kells in Trinity Collage, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Guinness Hop Store, view the Georgian houses of Dublin, The Phoenix Park, National Art Gallery, South City Coastal visiting James Joyce Tower and Museum in Sandycove where Joyce wrote the setting for the first chapter of Ulysses. The Tower overlooks the famous 40 ft. where swimmers enjoy a dip 365 days a year. Overnight in Dublin. Westin Hotel, Dublin City Centre - standard or deluxe room.

St. Patrick's Cathedral

Today we visit Kilmanham Jail where many Irish freedom fighters of the Easter Rising in 1916 where executed, take the guided tour and visit the cells and see the signatures of famous prisoners on the wall.

Kilmainham Gaol

Japanese Gardens

Our journey continues to the Japanese Gardens & Irish National Stud. The Japanese Gardens where created between 1906/1910, they symbolise the Life of Man and are acclaimed as the finest example of Japanese Gardens in Europe. The Irish National Stud was established in 1946 and stable some of the finest stallions in the world. We continue our drive surrounded by the Slieve Bloom Mountains to the village of Kinnitty in Co. Offaly. Overnight in Offaly. Kinnitty Castle, Co. Offaly - standard or deluxe room.

We depart Kinnitty Castle for Birr Castle and Demense, Irelands Historic Science Centre and gardens. Here you can view astronomical instuments and photographic equipment used in the middle and late 1800's. Birr Castle houses one of the largest telescopes in the world. Constucted in the 1840's this was the largest telescope for over 70 years, discovering the Whirpool nebula in the 1840's.

Birr Castle

Clonmacnoise

We continue to Clonmacnoise an ancient monastic site dating back to the 6th. century almost 1,500 years, founded by St. Ciaran the son of an Ulsterman. Here is where you can view the ancient High Crosses of Ireland and Round Tower. Our journey continues to Cong one of the most famous villages in Ireland. Overnight in Cong. Ashford Castle, Co. Mayo - standard or deluxe room.

Today we visit The Quiet Man Cottage Museum in the village of Cong famous for scenes in the The Quiet Man with John Wayne and Maureen O Hara, a stones throw from Ashford Castle, after your leisurly stroll we head through the 12 Pins mountain range over to Kylemore Abbey. The Abbey was built in 1864 and is spectacularly sited above the waters of Lake Pollacappul.

Kylemore Abbey

The Quiet Man Bridge

Our journey brings us over to the Sky Road drive with sweeping views down into the Atlantic (next stop America) looping back into Cliften. Cliften is where Alcock & Brown made the first non-stop Aviation Trans Atlantic crossing in 1919, a small museum to honour their crossing can be viewed in Cliften. We make our way back towards Galway, passing the Quiet Man Bridge again where scenes from The Quiet Man were made. Overnight in Galway. Glenloe Abbey, Co. Galway - standard room or junior suite.

This morning you can have a leisurly stroll around Galway City. Our journey continues through Clarinbridge home of the Galway Oyster Festival towards the Alwie Caves and the Burran coastal drive, 100sq. miles of Limestone. We travel into Doolin for refreshments to Gus O Connor's, with the Atlantic to your right we arrive at the Cliffs of Moher which rise 700ft. above sea level. We continue towards Lahinch famed for it's beach and Golf Course and arrive at Dromoland Castle. Overnight in Clare. Dromoland Castle, Co. Clare - standard or deluxe room.

Cliffs of Moher

We depart Dromoland Castle and head for Bunratty Castle & Folk Park a reconsructed typical 19th. century Irish village. We continue through the City of Limerick famous for Angela's Ashes and head for Cork where we stop off at Blarney Woolen Mills the mecca of Irish fair and 15c. Blarney Castle.

Bunratty Castle

Blarney Castle

Here is where you can kiss the Blarney Stone, when kissed is said to endow the speaker with extraordinary powers of eloquence, what we call in Ireland (the gift of the gab) the stone was once kissed by Winston Churchill in 1912. Overnight in Cork. Hayfield Manor, Cork City Centre - superior room or executive suite.

Our journey continues to Midleton Distillery home of Irish Whiskey here you can browse in their shop and take the tour of the old distillery. We continue to Cobh where the Titantic last docked before its ill fated journey. Here you can visit a Heritage centre that has a story to be told, here is where 2.5 million adults and children emigrated on Coffin Ships, Steamers, and Great Ocean Liners, the sinking of the Lusitania off Cork Harbour in World War 1, and where Annie Moore the first emigrant ever to be processed of Ellis Island and her two brothers left.

Midleton Distillery

Annie Moore Statue

We continue to St. Finbars and view the Island Church and the most photographed restroom in Ireland. Onwards we travel into Glengarriff and over the Caha Pass into Kenmare. Overnight in Kenmare. Sheen Falls Hotel, Kenmare - standard room or junior suite.

Today the famous Ring Of Kerry - rugged mountains, still lakes, breathtaking scenery, 100 miles of pure heaven and stories to be told (keep your eyes open for the LEPRECHAUNS). This I can't describe - you will have to see it for yourself, beautiful memories forever when you sleep. Overnight in Kenmare. Sheen Falls Hotel, Kenmare - standard room or junior suite.

Killarney Lakes Ring of Kerry

You have the choice to visit Dingle or drive direct to Adare Manor to relax on your last day, visit their Spa or play a round of Golf. Overnight in Adare. Adare Manor, Co. Limerick - standard or deluxe room.

Adare Manor

Depending on your departure time at Shannon Airport, you still might have some time for last minute shopping, and with fond memories of the Emerald Isle and your driver, we say Slan Abhaile (safe home.)

Shannon Airport