Ireland road trip – Let’s explore here
On our Irish journey we traveled from Scotland by ferry to Larne, Northern Ireland, before heading around the entire coast of the island of Ireland. The distance is approximately 1,700 miles (2,700km). We’d been to Ireland before, but had never circumnavigated its perimeter. The journey really enlightened us even more about the wonderful history of Ireland and its welcoming people.
Our initial planned route took us anti-clockwise around Ireland. However the weather forecast made it clear that we should travel clockwise in order to avoid heavy Atlantic downpours and catch the sun. In the end on our mammoth trip we only experience one full day of rain, one day of fog and one morning of mist, all the rest were sunny! Apparently we were extremely lucky, as everyone was telling us how it had been incessant rain prior to us turning up! Perhaps we had some of the famous Irish luck on our side 🙂
This is the actual route that we took around Ireland.
Our travels through Ireland and Northern Ireland take us from Larne – Belfast – Lisburn – Lough Neagh – Rathriland – Mourne mountains – Rostrevor – Trim castle – Dublin – Sally Gap – Glendalough – Wicklow – Wexford – Coolkenno – Waterford – Cork – Kinsale – Clonakilty – Mizen Head – Bantry – Glengariff – Lambs Head – Spunkane – St. Finian’s Bay – Valentia Island – Ross Castle – Killarney – Dun Chaoin – Stradbally – Tralee – Limerick – Lough Derg (mountshannon) – Burren National Park – Galway – Spidall – Clifden – Letterfrack – Westport – Achill Island (White Cliffs of Ashleam – Dooega – Keem) – Kilgalligan – Céide Fields – Sligo – Donegal – Killybegs – Sliabh Liag – Glencolumbkille – Lough Barra Bog – Glenveagh – Fort Dunree – Portronan – Malin Head – Tremone Bay – Shrove – Redcastle – Derry – Sperrin National Landscape – Beaghmore Stone Circles – Binevenagh National Landscape – Giant’s Causeway – Larne
More information on this road trip and photographs of places we visited can be found on the Ireland page.
We’re also creating blogs for each country when we have data, or we can find decent wifi, and we have enough power!
If you’d like any information on any of these places, please don’t hesitate to contact us!