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7-Day Private Tour of Dublin, Cork and Limerick
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Seven days through three of Ireland’s most characterful cities, entirely private. You’ll be met at the airport and looked after by a dedicated support team before and throughout the trip, so you can focus on the places rather than the logistics.
Dublin comes first - Trinity College’s treasures, an evening bar crawl through the city’s pubs, and entrances to Dublin Castle and Christ Church Cathedral. From there you head south to Cork and the seafaring town of Cobh, then west along the Wild Atlantic Way to the Dingle Peninsula. The Blarney Stone is there to be kissed if you’re so inclined. The week wraps up with the Cliffs of Moher and a visit to Bunratty Castle near Limerick before the journey home.
Hotels throughout are downtown properties of a high standard, and breakfast is included each morning.
At Blarney - the grounds are worth more of your time than the queue. The Blarney Stone sits 83 feet up in the 1446 castle battlements, and lying backwards over a gap to kiss it takes about twenty minutes of queue for thirty seconds of theatre. If you’d rather skip the lean, the Rock Close below the castle - the Wishing Steps, the Witch’s Kitchen, the standing stones - is quieter and tells a stranger story. The village itself is small; after the castle and the grounds, the Back in Time bakery on Main Street does proper sandwiches. Cork city is eight kilometres south if you want a real meal and a full afternoon. Spend time at Blarney before heading on towards the coast.
At Bunratty - arrive before the coaches. Bunratty Castle is five minutes from Shannon Airport and five minutes from Limerick, which means the tour buses start arriving from half-ten in the morning. Get there at nine when it opens and you’ll have the Folk Park largely to yourselves. The park itself is a thirty-acre reconstructed village - cottages, a working forge, a school - moved stone by stone from sites that would otherwise have been lost. Budget at least two hours, not one. For lunch, MacCloskey’s is set in a vaulted 17th-century cellar and is the best meal in the village by a distance; book ahead. For a drink, Durty Nelly’s is the famous one - it’s real enough at five in the afternoon before the medieval banquet crowd arrives. Spend time at Bunratty and leave the castle before midday if you can.
On the Dingle Peninsula stop. The Dingle Peninsula is an Irish-speaking area - signs are in Irish first, the pubs run sessions in a language some visitors can’t follow, and that’s part of the atmosphere. Out of the Blue restaurant on the pier does seafood with no fixed menu, only what came off the boats that morning. If the tour gives you an evening in Dingle, the session at O’Sullivan’s Courthouse starts around nine and the town has 52 pubs in a space you can walk in twelve minutes. Explore Dingle properly if the itinerary allows more than a transit stop.
Timing Bunratty for your last day. If this stop falls on your departure day, Bunratty is genuinely well-positioned - it’s five minutes from Shannon Airport and you can combine the Folk Park visit with breakfast or an early lunch before your flight. MacCloskey’s opens for lunch; Gallagher’s of Bunratty does an early-bird that makes sense if you’re watching the clock.