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From Dublin: 4-Day Grand Atlantic Coastline Tour
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Four days by train and coach through the best of Ireland’s south and west - from the Blarney Stone to Connemara, with the Ring of Kerry and the Cliffs of Moher in between. It’s a route that covers a serious amount of ground without ever feeling like it’s rushing you.
You check in at Dublin Heuston Station’s Customer Service Desk for the 07:00 InterCity train to Cork, with breakfast available to buy on board. Day one covers Blarney Castle and the Queenstown Story at Cobh Heritage Centre, before you catch the train from Cork to Killarney for the first of two comfortable nights in en-suite B&B accommodation.
Day two is given over entirely to the Ring of Kerry - a largely coastal drive around the Iveragh Peninsula taking in mountain and Atlantic scenery, including the famous Lakes of Killarney. It’s one of those drives that earns its reputation.
Day three starts with a 07:30 transfer from Killarney to Limerick, where you join the Cliffs of Moher tour. You’ll visit Bunratty Castle, stand at the cliff edge looking out over the Atlantic, and take in Galway Bay before checking into a 3-star Galway city hotel for the night.
Day four departs Galway at 10:00 for a tour of Connemara, including Kylemore Abbey, before the train back to Dublin Heuston, arriving at 21:00.
Cobh Heritage Centre’s Queenstown Story covers the town’s history as a major point of emigration during the Famine years and as Titanic’s last port of call. It’s the kind of exhibition that puts the rest of the tour in context - by the time you get to the Kerry landscape on Day Two, you have a very different sense of what this corner of Ireland has meant to people who had to leave it.
The Ring of Kerry is best enjoyed without a rigid schedule. The route around the Iveragh Peninsula is spectacular at every turn, but the stops that tend to stick with people are the smaller ones - a roadside pull-in with a view of Dingle Bay across the water, or the moment you come over a rise in the road and the Atlantic opens up in front of you. Let the scenery work on you rather than ticking off landmarks.
Killarney town is genuinely lovely in the evenings. The two nights there mean you get one evening to find your bearings and one evening to actually enjoy the town - the restaurants on New Street and the pubs around the Market Cross are worth exploring after a day on the Ring of Kerry.
Kylemore Abbey on Day Four sits against a backdrop of Connemara mountains in a way that photographs simply can’t capture properly. The Victorian walled garden is a real surprise - restored beautifully and well worth the walk from the main building. Give yourself more time in Connemara than you think you’ll need.
The Galway hotel night is a genuine bonus. Galway city has one of the best evening atmospheres in Ireland - Quay Street and the Latin Quarter on a clear evening, with good food and live music, is a proper send-off before the train back to Dublin the next day.