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Itinerary HELP.. Desperately seeking knowledge

Fellow travel guru's.... Here is my dilemma with my itinerary for Ireland. We had everything booked and planned out... and then I had a panic attack that we were missing some important stuff. We leave in 10 days...
Arrive Dublin, drive to Trim for the night (yes I read RS guide to Ireland for that tidbit)

THE NEXT 2 NIGHTS and 3 DAYS I DON'T know where to go. : )

Wherever we goto, we have to GO Back to Dublin for 2 nights. THEN we start a 3 day mini tour to West Coast Explorer we sleep in Galway and see the below items
Highlights:
~ The Burren
~ Cliffs of Moher
~ Galway Town
~ Rugged beauty of Connemara
~ Kylemore Abbey
~ Clonmacnoise monastery
~ Locke’s Whiskey Distillery

back to Dublin for a night, because we get in late from tour.

Kilkenny for 1 night
Kinsale for 2 nights
Dingle 3 nights
fly from Cork to England.....

The 2 nights and 3 days..... in between Trim and going back to Dublin.... I'm torn. Should we go to Killarney and the park, ring of Kerry etc? I didn't really have that built into the itinerary because I thought if I was in Dingle It would be similar. Or should we go to Antrim coast? Is Killarney too far to drive from Trim to not be miserable? Should we go to Wexford, WIcklow, Waterford (that vicinity?) I'm just completely lost about where to go.... Help!

Posted by
3123 posts

I see nobody has answered. Maybe it's because your question is too multi-pronged. I tried reading everything you posted and I'm a bit overwhelmed. Try breaking it down into shorter, more focused questions.

Posted by
1172 posts

Am I reading correctly that you are flying into to Dublin, have 2 nights 3days, back to Dublin to start the tour and then have the 3 day tour on the West coast and then back to Dublin?

If so, can you change the dates so that you fly in to Dublin, start the tour, get back to Dublin and then can you have the 2 nights 3 days and fly out of Shannon?

Posted by
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That's a lot of running back and forth! But since you are in Trim already on Day 2, I would go to Newgrange (Bru na Boinne), then perhaps on to Belfast. It doesn't make sense to travel way out of the area only to come back in two days. You have plenty on your plate without adding any locations to the rest of your time. If it were me, I would reorder things and after your 3-day tour (and the night in Dublin), I would go straight to Dingle, visiting Rock of Cashel on the way. Do your three nights in Dingle, then Kinsale, which puts you right at Cork for your flight out. I would skip Kilkenny, too, and visit Cobh or Blarney while in the Kinsale area instead.