Hi all. I am excited - just found this forum! I would love some input please about our upcoming trip. We arrive in Dublin on 1st July & have 3 nights booked at a hotel. We then collect our hire car & will be driving to friends who live 40 mins the other side of Galway & for 2 nights. Will do a couple of day trips while there. After these few days is where I need help. We have 4 nights to get to Cork & catch up with other friends. I have tentatively booked 2 nights in Killarney (& no idea where to go after that) but I am now concerned that it’s too far from Galway in one hit & won’t allow enough time to see all the interesting places in-between. I’ve been reading that we could consider Ennis as a central stop to see the CoM, the Burren etc & pretty towns etc. If we do that, where should we aim for the next 2 nights? Or have I got it wrong & should stick with Killarney for the whole time? Also a complicating factor is that I am researching where my ancestors came from (Quin, Rathkeale, Mallow, Tipperary & Blarney & other places not confirmed as yet) & I’d love to drive through some of these places. Then after Cork ( where we hope to visit Cobh, Kinsdale (?) etc,) we will head back to Dublin to drop the car at the airport & then stay overnight at one of the hotels nearby. Your comments/feedback would be most appreciated. Thanks.
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Research your ancestors and make a formal request to the geneological society in your part of the country. For a small fee, they can compile a report for you that you can pick up when you go there (or have it delivered to you in advance). The folks who work there are informative and helpful in mapping out routes to cemetaries, old address locations, and churches related to your family tree. We did this and in one small village stopped at the little convenience store for postcards and a snack. The clerk chatted with us and called her neighbor who happened to be a distant relative of our ancestor. Small world! Needless to say, we were invited for tea and had a wonderful afternoon visiting. This was an unexpected highlight of our trip.