A local lens on Ireland
The long way round. A new favourite place. Everything you need just around the corner.
A round tower, a wooded valley and lakes to discover. Begin at Glendalough's monastic site.
Places to discover. Local life. The way there.
Five places. Find your next starting point.
Explore your way
A table for lunch, a museum to explore, or a little fresh air. Start with what you feel like doing.
Find somewhere for lunch, a family meal or dinner out, wherever the day takes you.
Explore local pubs and find a place to meet friends or stop after a day out.
Find a café around the corner or somewhere to take a break along the way.
Make room for a little history, a new perspective or a rainy afternoon indoors.
Find your next walk, with route maps and distances to help you plan the day.
Find a stretch of coast, check water quality and plan the journey.
Explore Ireland’s inland waters and check access to the shore.
Find a place to pitch up or park for the night, with recorded facilities.
Take the scenic week
A suggested seven-day journey through the south and west. City streets, old stories and a little room for the outdoors. Choose a day and make it yours.
Pick a numbered pin to explore that day.
The pins show each day's base. Plan the journeys between them using the travel links.
Day 1: Dublin. Stories, stone & city streets.
Stories, stone & city streets
Begin in Dublin with a choice of its old and older stories. See the Book of Kells, explore Dublin Castle or spend time inside Saint Patrick's Cathedral. Leave room between visits for the streets, cafés and small discoveries that make a first day your own.
Choose your visits around arrival time and check any timed-entry bookings before setting out.
A closer look at medieval Ireland
Head south to Kilkenny and build the afternoon around its historic centre. Rothe House brings merchant life into focus, the Medieval Mile Museum puts the city's past in context, and Saint Canice's Cathedral gives you another reason to look up.
Pick one indoor visit after the journey, then explore more if your arrival time allows.
Viking stories by the water
Make Waterford your next stop and spend the afternoon in the Viking Triangle. Start with Reginald's Tower, then choose between the Medieval Museum and the Bishop's Palace. These different chapters of the city give a small area plenty to explore.
Museum opening days and last admission times can differ. Check the places you want to enter.
Market stalls & a city from above
Continue west to Cork. Browse the English Market when it is trading, take in the city from Elizabeth Fort, or explore Saint Fin Barre's Cathedral. Mix food and architecture, with time to wander between the centre and the streets south of the river.
Check market trading days before planning lunch here. The fort and cathedral have their own visiting hours.
Trade city streets for green space
Use Killarney as your base for a change of pace. Choose Muckross House and its gardens or the ruins of Muckross Abbey in the national park. Back in town, Saint Mary's Cathedral offers a quieter architectural stop before the evening.
Muckross is outside the town centre. Plan the local journey as well as your arrival in Killarney.
Art, local food & the Shannon
Turn north towards Limerick and give the riverside a place in your day. Explore art and antiquities at the Hunt Museum, find the Treaty Stone across the Shannon, or visit the Milk Market if a market is running on your chosen day.
The market programme depends on the day. Keep the museum and riverside as alternative starting points.
A last day in the west
Finish in Galway with time for the centre and the Corrib. Begin around Eyre Square, choose a visit to Galway Cathedral or follow the city's story at Galway City Museum beside the Spanish Arch. Leave the rest of the afternoon open for your own discoveries.
This week ends in Galway. Allow a separate travel leg if you need to return to Dublin or an airport.
This is a lively, one-way week, starting in Dublin and ending in Galway. Travel between towns by car or check bus and train options for your dates. Pick one or two sights on travel days, and add extra nights for a slower pace.
Choose between a west-of-Ireland tasting menu, a meal beside Spanish Arch and lunch in a Cross Street pub. Three different ways to make food part of a Galway day.
Read the guideFollow Cork’s trading past, explore the city’s own collections or look at contemporary art on the university campus. Choose a museum visit by what interests you.
Read the guideLook closely at plants in Glasnevin, pause in a central garden or explore a memorial landscape at Islandbridge. Three gardens, three different reasons to go.
Read the guideStart with its streets. Find the places worth a closer look, build a day around them, and work out how to get there.
Follow the city along the Lee
3,714 named places, 284 things to see and 2,236 streets
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New discoveries on familiar streets
10,484 named places, 916 things to see and 4,321 streets
Find your way through the west
1,816 named places, 164 things to see and 597 streets
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723 event listings from Fáilte Ireland’s open data and our sourced guides. Filter by town, county and date to find your next day out. Coverage varies by location.
Place totals count each published record once. Street totals count named streets within each town, and the lake directory brings matching lake records together. It is what the map has rather than what exists.
Counted on 2026-09-23.
A city break, a coastal town or somewhere closer to home. Find your destination, then choose where you are starting, your date and your time to explore the available travel options.
Search all 1,439 towns and villages in the Republic.
Bus and train options use the published timetable for your chosen date. Driving and walking are available in the destination’s journey planner.
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