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Chauffeur Driven Tour of Beautiful County Wicklow
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County Wicklow is one of those places that earns every bit of its reputation. Ancient monastic ruins, fast-moving waterfalls, deep glacial lakes, wooded valleys, formal country-house gardens - it’s all here within an hour of Dublin. This tour takes you through the best of it in a luxury Mercedes with a qualified chauffeur guide, so you can focus on taking it all in.
The day runs for 7 to 8 hours and you’ll cover a lot of genuinely special ground, from the seventh-century monastic city of Glendalough to the exquisite formal gardens at Powerscourt. It’s a private tour, so it’s your group only.
Powerscourt House and Gardens - Ranked among the top three private gardens in Europe, Powerscourt is a proper highlight. You’ll spend around 90 minutes exploring the formal gardens, sweeping terraces, ornamental lakes, and statues.
Poulanass Waterfall - The second-highest waterfall in Ireland. Allow around 60 minutes here - it’s a spectacular sight, especially after rain.
Lough Tay (Guinness Lake) - Deep in the Wicklow hills, this striking dark lake is famous as a filming location for the Vikings TV series. The views from above are spectacular. About 60 minutes here.
Glendalough - The medieval monastic settlement founded by St Kevin in the seventh century. You’ll see the ancient Round Tower, the Cathedral, and the beautiful twin lakes. Set aside around 2 hours to do it properly.
Laragh village - You’ll stop here for lunch at the Heather Restaurant, a local favourite known for good home-cooked food. About 60 minutes.
Scenic coastal return - The tour finishes with a drive back to Dublin along the coast road, taking in the towns of Killiney, Dalkey, and Dún Laoghaire harbour before you’re dropped back to your hotel. Allow around 90 minutes for this leg.
Meeting point: O’Connell Street, directly opposite the GPO.
At Glendalough, don’t let the two hours go to the visitor centre queue. The round tower and cathedral at the monastic city are the obvious draws, but the Green Road along the Lower Lake - flat, easy, and lined with the ruins of seven churches - is what most day-trippers miss. The path takes you from the visitor centre along the Lower Lake and out to the foot of the Upper Lake. If time allows, it’s the walk that makes Glendalough make sense. The valley was a full medieval city at its peak; the ruins are spread across it.
The Poulanass Waterfall stop is the Poll an Eas trail. You’re climbing through oak woodland to a thirty-metre cascade - the same river that, thousands of years ago, divided what was once a single lake into the two that Glendalough is named for (Gleann Dá Loch means the valley of two lakes). After rain it is spectacular; allow the full sixty minutes rather than treating it as a quick photo stop.
Laragh village is where the locals eat and drink after a day in the valley. The Wicklow Heather restaurant - which is where your lunch stop is - is the more formal option, known for Wicklow lamb and good produce. If you’re ordering light, the Trinity Mountain Bothy café in the village does soup, sandwiches, and proper coffee for walkers. Either way, Laragh is a useful fifteen minutes of normality between the monastic site and the drive back.
The coastal return via Killiney and Dún Laoghaire is a proper finish. Killiney Hill above the bay has views on a clear day toward the mountains of Wales - even from the road you’ll see why people chose to build expensive houses on this coastline. Dún Laoghaire’s twin granite piers were built between 1817 and 1842 and, at completion, formed the largest artificial harbour in the world. You won’t be stopping, but your guide will point you in the right direction as you pass through.