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Off the beaten track Dublin
30 Reviews Visit Howth Learn how to SAY 'Howth' like a local! Do the Guinness thing (and taste the black stuff!) Talk to locals. The Abbey Tavern is, of course, the main reason anyone who is a beer drinker...
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City Walks, Shopping, and Towns Worth Visiting Cork
22 Reviews Cork is not too big a city,its suberbs do stretch out a bit but the city centre is small enough being about 1.5 mile squared. there are some interesting buildings in the city centre but most of the...
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City walks and Towns worth visiting Galway
12 Reviews I recently spent a week-end in Galway with my partner. We took the train from Dublin to Galway. We stayed at Lynfield Guesthouse in College Road. It was just a two to three minute walk from the train...
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King John's Castle Limerick
4 Reviews There is so many leyers in this city. Oldest part of the Limerick is around King John's Castle. I have'nt discovered everything yet. But this castle sure dominates the view of the city. Thomond...
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Breath taking scenery! Killarney
2 Reviews I have lived in Killarney all my life. I used to go back there practially every weekend when in college. The best thing about Killarney is the scenery, even if it is probably the most popular tourist...
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Historic sites of Waterford Waterford
1 Review Explore the historic sites of Waterford. The cylindrical Reginald's Tower is Irelands most historic urban monument which is more than a thousand years old. The tower is located in the quay area of the...
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Kilkenny Castle Kilkenny
2 Reviews Forty years before our visit (short in the total timespan of the life of the castle), Arthur Butler, 6th Marquess and 24th Earl of Ormonde, sold his abandoned and deteriorating castle to the Castle...
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Glencar Waterfall Sligo
1 Review Glencar waterfall is well signposted - you can't miss it! After our little walk around Deer Park, my friends were not ready to trek to another site so they waited for me to walk to the waterfall....
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Kinsale Town Kinsale
3 Reviews After we visited Charles Fort, we parked in town, walked all through the town and a local park, and ate lunch. While we were looking at the harbor during lunch we saw the head of an animal pop up. At...
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Fungie Dingle
2 Reviews So when my friend saw all of these people taking pictures of the Fungi statue she was really confused. "Out of all the pretty things here, why is everyone wanting a picture of the damn dolphin?" were...
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Howth Harbour Howth
5 Reviews Growing up, I was very near the Atlantic Ocean of central Florida, and foolishly this meant little to me. Now I am four or five hours from the ocean. So even a couple of quality hours of seaside...
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Queenstown Cove Cobh
2 Reviews The bus tour made a special stop at Cobh (which is pronounced Cove) so that we could go through The Queenstown Experience. Cobh, under the English was called Queenstown, and many Irish immigrants left...
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Inishmore Inishmore
3 Reviews Inis Mór is the largest of the three Aran Islands off the west coast of Galway, with a population of about 900 people. The name means 'large island'. Inishmore is a popular tourist attraction, so it...
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Glendalough Wicklow
1 Review GLENDALOUGH' this a very beautiful aim to travel! Here you can hike through the forests and mountains and you can see a beautiful waterfall! And before you do that you can make an organized trip...
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Off the beaten track Drogheda
1 Review The area around Drogheda is filled with history and there are small and lovely towns to explore everywhere. South of Drogheda and North of Dublin you can find a lovely sea-side-town called Skerries....
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Religion Ballyvaughan
2 Reviews As you travel around, take time to view the statues that you may find outside Churches and, occasionally, alongside the road side. As well as normally being along a religeous theme they are usually...
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Driving Achill Island
2 Reviews Atlantic Drive is the most spectacular road on Achill Island - always going along the great coastline towards the very end of the island. the Atlantic drive is about 20 Km long and you will meet only...
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Skellig Michael Great Skelligs
11 Reviews Many steep cliffs are found on the island - so watch your step ... ...and take lots of breaks in order to see the great panorama-scenery Clouds are arriving quickly from the sea sometimes, but in...
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Tholsel New Ross
1 Review Check out the 'Tholsel', (toll stall) on the corner of Quay Street and South Street. This building can be shown beyond the palmtrees in this photo. I was surprised to find palm trees growing here at...
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Croagh Patrick County Mayo
2 Reviews After giving up half way to climb Croagh Patrick I walked down and sat down in the cafe of the visitors centre to wait for my boyfriend who went all the way up. A few old ladies and a nun asked me...
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Cliffs of Moher County Clare
4 Reviews Lighthouses are one of my favorite things, and I was able to photograph one when I was at the Cliffs of Moher. I believe that this one was Inisheer which is actually one of the Aran Islands...
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General Comments Dublin
41 Reviews FREE TRAVEL The Dublin Pass offers FREE travel to the city centre, from when you arrive into Dublin Airport you make the most of your Pass by travelling FREE to the city centre with Aircoach. The...
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Castles, Big Houses, Ruins and Churches Cork
6 Reviews I had a real fascination with Castles and especially the Ramparts! I could just vision waiting up in the castle waitin for enemy to attack. Well I thought they were cool anyways! They reminded me the...
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Mountains, Woods and Bogs Galway
7 Reviews For us the area is a great landscape - but for people, who were forced to live there, and who had no chance to earn a living or grow their own vegetables, it was a hard living many of the houses were...
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Limerick Treaty Stone Limerick
1 Review Check out the Limerick Treaty Stone. It was in 1691 that the Limerick Treaty is said to have been signed when Limerick finally fell into English hands. This stone can be found near the castle if you...
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Take as many site seeing tours as you can. It's fun to see what different cultures are like. There were a lot of neat things we did, but the thing I liked most was being able to kiss the Blarney Stone!
The atmosphere at Trinity College Dublin was very nice. I met many lovely people there, both Irish and other foreigners. Then of course there were evenings at the pub, weekend trips to nearby Howth...
Walk down to Mother Redcaps on a Sunday morning. The bells of Christchurch, the Liffey flowing past, the pounds of potato pancakes and quiche from the Gallic Kitchen. Life doesn't get much better. *Nursing hangovers in Beweleys on O'Connell Street.*Seeing loads of incredibly good theater at cheap prices.*Watching Ireland kick Italy's ass in the 1994 World Cup.*Guinness, Guinness, Guinness
Have a guiness in a local pub and talk to the people! It is said that there are more the 40 different greens (coulour) in Irleand.Unbelievable, but true.We always tried to discover the 41st one, but we couldn´t decide which one it was.
Go to Trinity College in Dublin...the fact that it was built in the 1500s is reason alone, but the Book of Kells, really is amazing...back then the monks really did their jobs right! the people are the friendliest i've ever met...and for a woman travelling on her own, that's quite refreshing!
Get talking to the people. We're a friendly and curious sort with a story about everything.Don't be discouraged by the accent, tis a 'soft' sort of english and you can leave dose 'th's back in english class, we don't boder wih dem at all! People in Dublin and Galway should be easy enough to understand while in the North they speak a bit like the Scots and down South they 'sing' their words very fast. It just takes a while to tune in your ear.Don't be afraid to strike up a conversation in the pub or wherever you are staying - the weather is normally a good ice-breaker. It's usually a complaint because it's usually bad and if it isn't you should be out West enjoying the scenic, lush, green countryside because the good spells never last long! Watching on the telly - Ireland BEAT England 1-0 in Stuttgart, Germany, June, 1988 - sorry Brit neighbours, couldn't resist that one. It was great,...
Walk alomng the beautiful coast, its so scenic and old you really get a sense of history. The new years eve xmas party, unlike clubs in a big city it was a small afair rather like a youth club disco with balloons everywhere and a raffle, excellent, really innocent and sweet, apart from loads of drunkern irish and myself!
Oh lots of things: 1)Try Irish stew and Corned beef with Cabbage...it just tastes so much better here. 2)Buy some Shannon Crystal...its cheaper than waterford but same high quality and we liked the name better, located in Ennis, County Clare. 3)See the cliffs of Moher, Rock of Cashel and the lakes of Killarney. 4) Drive through Connemara and when in Sneem (County Kerry), go the way the Fairies went! The 40 shades of green, the rolling hills, the people, the sheep, the weather...especially the mist, all those beautiful crumbling old castles, gravestones, ruins and celtic crosses.
Get a Heritage Card from Duchas, the Heritage Service. It costs 19 Euros, and you get free access for a year to all sites which are run by Duchas. You can buy the card at any Duchas site for which you would otherwise have to pay an entry fee.
We took a day trip to Howth ( I think I spelled that right...:)), which is only like a half hour by train outside of Dublin. We meant to take a 'seaside walk', but we got lost and ended up walking through someone's sheep pasture! But it was one of the most fun days we had; we took pictures from a cliff and had ice cream by the pier:) I highly recommend this picturesque little town:)
Westbury Hotel Dublin
4 Reviews and 722 Opinions If location is a must and you have the extra to spend, Westbury's is certainly a place to go. Just...
Fitzgerald's Vienna Woods Hotel Cork
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Park House Galway
2 Reviews and 657 Opinions I selected the Park House Hotel because it is very convenient to both the bus and train stations in...
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Q: Well we finally purchased our plane tickets everyone!! My daughter and I will be visiting Ireland in October of this year. We are...
A: I'm sure you'll have a super trip! You will take the 'bus' rather than the 'coach'. Getting around Ireland by bus is easy, although some journeys may take quite a...
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