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Dublin Airport Or Dublin City To Sheen Falls Lodge Private Chauffeur Transfer
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It’s a good four hours from Dublin to Sheen Falls Lodge near Kenmare in Kerry, so you want to travel well. Your chauffeur will meet you in the arrivals hall at Dublin Airport, or at your Dublin City address, take care of the luggage, and drive you the whole way down to Kerry. The road south gets progressively more interesting as the motorway gives way to the Kerry hills, and you’ll arrive at the lodge without any of the stress that comes with navigating an unfamiliar hire car on narrow mountain roads.
If you need a return transfer to Dublin, book the same trip for your departure date and give the operator your pick-up details.
Sheen Falls Lodge sits above the Sheen River just outside Kenmare, where the river drops over a series of falls before meeting the Kenmare River estuary. The falls are lit at night during the season, which makes for a striking view from the lodge grounds. Kenmare itself is one of those Kerry towns that consistently punches above its weight for food - it has a good number of well-regarded restaurants concentrated in a very small area, and the weekly farmers’ market runs on Wednesdays.
The four-hour journey from Dublin covers a lot of Ireland’s geography in a single sitting. You’ll come through the Tipperary lowlands and across the Limerick plain before the landscape starts to lift toward north Kerry and the mountains. The approach to Kenmare through the Kenmare River valley, with the Caha Mountains to the south and the MacGillycuddy’s Reeks visible to the north on clear days, is a proper introduction to Kerry at its best.
Timing your departure from Dublin is worth thinking about for this route. If you’re leaving the airport on a Friday afternoon in summer, the M7 through Kildare and Tipperary can carry heavy traffic. A morning departure after the commuter rush clears, or a midweek journey, tends to be more straightforward. Your chauffeur knows the route well and will plan accordingly, but the four-hour estimate can stretch in busy conditions.
The area around Kenmare is worth several days rather than a quick overnight. The Beara Peninsula to the south is one of the least-visited parts of Kerry and Cork, with spectacular coastal roads and very few tourists compared with the main Ring of Kerry circuit. The Ring of Kerry road itself starts and ends in Killarney, which is about 35 kilometres from Kenmare by the N71 mountain road - easily driveable if you pick up a car locally, or your chauffeur can be booked for day trips from the lodge.