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Final 8 day itinerary!

Hello!
Thank you so much for all of your help planning our trip. We're leaving in 10 days (!!!!) and just wanted to run our final itinerary by all of you before we leave. I'm so glad that you all counseled to reduce how much we do - it still seems like a lot! We have to keep the end of the itinerary since my husband's ancestors are from Achill. I'm sad to be missing the RoK and Aran Islands, Kinsale, etc. but we'll just have to go back!

Any last minute changes or recommendations very welcome. We would especially appreciate any pub recommendations/trad music recommendations in Killarney, Dingle and Westport!

Thanks!
Sherry

Saturday: arrive in Dublin at 8:30AM
- Kilmainham Gaol 1:45PM
- Wander around outside (Trinity college? St. Stephen's Green?) in order to stay awake
- Brazen Head pub

Sunday: Drive to Rock of Cashel, see castle + grounds, then on to Killarney for overnight

Monday: Gap of Dunloe, Killarney national park (Torc waterfall), drive to Dingle for overnight

Tuesday: Dingle Peninsula

Wednesday: Drive to Cliffs of Moher via Tarbert Ferry, cliff walk if arriving in early afternoon and not too tired

Thursday: Drive to Westport and climb Croagh Patrick, explore Westport

Friday: Explore Achill island + overnight

Saturday: Achill island + drive back to Dublin

Sunday: fly home

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In Westport, we greatly enjoyed Matt Molloy's pub, called Matt Molloy's. He is one of the Chieftains!
So we are there, listening to his son and some others play, which was wonderful and then in walks the man himself, Matt Molloy who sat down and started playing. It was magical!!!!
We also went to Hoban's which we liked as well.

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Absolutely have a pint at Foxy Johns hardware store pub in Dingle.

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I'll second the recommendation for Matt Malloy's Pub in Westport! Heard the best trad of our trip there.

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Thanks! Will definitely make note of all of these.

For the gap of dunloe- should we do the 7 mile roundtrip from Kate Kearney's cottage to the head of the glen or boat from Ross castle --> Lord Brandon's cottage --> walk to Kate Kearney's cottage. We'll have a day in Killarney and plan to drive to Dingle that afternoon.