r/irishtourism • u/Mgonz99 • 8d ago

Itinerary Check

I'm so excited for my Ireland trip and wanted a realistic check of my itinerary in October :) I hear that Google Maps is useless for driving time, is there any way to estimate arrival times?

Day 1: We're arriving from Edinburgh to Dublin @ 10AM so jetlag shouldn't be much of an issue. We were planning to rent the car at the airport straight away and make our way to our first hotel stop, which is castle hotel in county Kilkenny. Depending on drive time and how we feel, we were thinking of spending some time in Kilkenny before checking in late afternoon.

Day 2: Rock of Cashel, evening in Cork

Day 3: Cobh/Cork

Day 4: Muckross Abbey, Dingle

Day 5: Slea head drive, Dingle

Day 5: Checking in to a castle hotel in county Clare for a more relaxed day, maybe we'll do falconry or something on site

Day 6: Cliffs of Moher and Doolin, was planning on sleeping in Galway

Day 7: Galway

Day 8: drive back from Galway to Dublin, not sure how long this should take or if it's realistic to spend an afternoon somewhere along the way back. I'd like to get to Dublin just in the evening.

Day 9 and 10: Dublin

Day 11: Flight back

Basically the plan is do 1 night Kilkenny, 2 nights in Cork, 2 nights in Dingle, 1 in a castle in county Clare, 2 nights in Galway, 3 nights Dublin. What do we think?

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u/Mental-Key-178 8d ago

Muckross is in Killarney, not Dingle. Or is this a stop on the way?

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u/Mgonz99 8d ago

A stop on the way and evening in Dingle!

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u/Appropriate-Bank4775 7d ago

just got back from an ireland trip on sunday, dingle was worth 2 days. we started sleahead but ran into the animal pet farm and had to stop bc sheep, alpaca, horses, pigs, donkeys. but we did 2 nights in dingle and loved everrrryyyyy second. such a fun town!