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booking tours in Ireland: i.e., sheepherding demonstration

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Maybe someone here can help me on this. My husband and I are traveling to Ireland in June and are renting a car. I would like to book some tours, for example i would love to see a sheepherding demonstration. i am having trouble actually booking something like this as a tour. Have looked on getyourguide.com, on the website of an actual sheep farm where they talk about the demonstrations (but don't offer a way to reserve a tour) , and on Tripadvisor, but haven't found very much. I see a couple of tours of the Dingle peninsula from Killarney, for example, but they are all day, and nothing including a sheepherding demonstration. Are tours like this all organized by third-party tour companies? i don't necessarily need to book a full-day bus tour with many stops, as we have a car, but am having difficulty figuring out how to do this.

Any advice welcome! thanks.

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Here’s the website for Kissane Sheep Farm (https://kissanesheepfarm.com/index.html). Note the Calendar showing when the sheep herding demonstrations will happen, and the Contact Us page, so you can verify when would be a good time to come. Edited: you can go as individuals, not as part of a tour. Just let them know.

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And if Kissane dates and times don’t work, here’s contact info for another place, Caitins: https://www.activeme.ie/guides/sheepdog-trials-kells-sheep-centre-kerry/

This is not a tour, though. It is a demonstration and you stop, as you drive the Ring of Kerry. For either of these two places, you would probably actually be booking a RoK tour and make sure it stops, as opposed to booking a tour of just the demonstration. And of course, you can drive yourself and just make your own reservation without a tour.

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Thanks so much! wrote to Kissane because they didn't have June dates listed and they said they would be posting them soon. And i will check into the other one as well texastravelmon. We do have a car, so may try to do this on our own without a tour.

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We went to one on the Dingle peninsula. www.dingleshepdogs.com. I emailed a day ahead of time and he told me what time he planned a demonstration. It was fun and informative and very scenic. It's on the Slea Head Loop Drive.

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If by chance you are in the Connemara area near Galway, Killary Sheep Farm on the Killary fjord has regular demonstrations in the summer. Check the website for dates/times and book ahead. https://killarysheepfarm.com/
Lots of other things to see in this beautiful area.

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We were at Killary Sheep Farm in 2019. It was a rather short, but enjoyable stop, and the setting on the fjord, where they farm mussels, was very scenic.

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