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EyEwitnEss tRAVEL BACK RoADS IRelAnD BR_IR_001_half-title.indd 1 23/10/09 14:19:14 002-003_Back_Roads_Ireland.indd 2 11/09/17 11:38 am EYEWITNESS TRAVEL BACK ROADS IRELAND Contributors Donna Dailey, Brian Daughton, John S Doyle and Yvonne Gordon 002-003_Back_Roads_Ireland.indd 3 11/09/17 11:38 am CONTENTS ABOUT THIS BOOK 6 INTRODUCING IRELAND 8 PUBLISHER Douglas Amrine LIST MANAGER Vivien Antwi GETTING TO IRELAND 10 Above The Belfry Tower, known as the Yellow Steeple, of St Mary’s Abbey on the River Boyne MANAGING ART EDITOR Jane Ewart PRACTICAL INFORMATION 12 EDITORIAL Michelle Crane, Alastair Drive 5 Laing, Georgina Palffy, Fay Franklin, DRIVING IN IRELAND 16 Dorothy Stannard, Vicki Allen, VIKING COUNTRY Justine Montgomery WHERE TO STAY 22 ART EDITORS Shahid Mahmood, Waterford City to Kate Leonard, Maite Lantaron WHERE TO EAT 24 Ballymacarbry 70 PRODUCTION CONTROLLER 3 days Linda Dare THE DRIVES 28 PICTURE RESEARCH Ellen Root, Drive 6 Rhiannon Furbear Drive 1 DTP Jason Little, Jamie McNeill KILKENNY’S MEDIEVAL A TASTE OF EAST CORK CARTOGRAPHY MANAGER TREASURES Uma Bhattacharya Cork City to Youghal 30 SENIOR CARTOGRAPHIC EDITOR 2 days Kilkenny City to Carlow Casper Morris Town 78 CARTOGRAPHY Drive 2 1–2 days Stuart James, Schchida Nand Pradhan ISLANDS AND LIGHTHOUSES JACKET DESIGN Drive 7 Tessa Bindloss, Meredith Smith Kinsale to Macroom 38 ILLUSTRATIONS TIPPERARY’S HOLY GLEN 4–5 days Arun Pottirayil, Pallavi Thakur, Cashel to Clonmel 86 Dev Datta Drive 3 2–3 days Printed and bound in China THE MAJESTIC RING OF KERRY First published in Great Britain in 2010 by Drive 8 Dorling Kindersley Limited, 80 Strand, London Kenmare to Killarney 50 WC2R 0RL. THE SUNNY SOUTHEAST A Penguin Random House Company 3 days 17 18 19 20 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Enniscorthy to the Reprinted with revisions 2013, 2018 Drive 4 Saltees 94 Copyright 2010, 2018 © Dorling THE DINGLE PENINSULA 3 days Kindersley Limited, London All rights reserved. No part of this publication Tralee to the Maharees Drive 9 may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, Peninsula 60 or transmitted in any form or by any means, CARLOW’S HIDDEN TREASURES electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording 2 days or otherwise, without the prior written Tullow to permission of the copyright owner. Bagenalstown 102 A CIP catalogue record is available from the British Library. 2 days ISBN 978 0 2413 0658 1 Jacket Dunluce Castle, along Causeway Coast, Ireland Below Iron Age Staigue Fort, near the village Below View from the narrow road of Castlecove on the Iveragh Peninsula over the Coomakesta Pass, Co Kerry 004-005_Back_Roads_Ireland.indd 4 13/10/17 1:07 pm Above Howth Marina, near Dublin, Above Thatched cottage in the fishing village Above The picturesque road curving full of clinking yachts and pleasure boats of Skerries, on Dublin’s north coast down to Coumeenoole Bay, Co Kerry Drive 10 Drive 15 Drive 20 LOUGHS AND LIGHTHOUSES VALLEY OF THE KINGS LEGENDS AND LAKES Portumna to Tarbert 110 Drogheda to the Hill of Mullaghmore to Lough 2–3 days Tara 154 Key 198 3 days 4–5 days Drive 11 LYRICAL CLARE Drive 16 Drive 21 Ennis to the Burren 120 HEART OF THE LAKELANDS DRAMATIC DONEGAL 2–3 days Athlone to Strokestown Newmills to Park House 162 Rossnowlagh 210 Drive 12 2 days 4–5 days THROUGH THE SALLY GAP Drive 17 Enniskerry to Mount Drive 22 Usher Gardens 128 CONNEMARA AND ITS THE FANAD PENINSULA 3–4 days LOUGHS Ramelton to Rosguill Clifden to Cong 170 Peninsula 222 Drive 13 3–4 days 2 days THE PLAINS OF KILDARE Drive 18 Celbridge to Drive 23 Kilcullen 138 CONNEMARA’S COAST CLASSIC NORTHERN IRELAND 2 days Galway to Spiddal 180 Carrickfergus to Lough 3–4 days Neagh 230 Drive 14 Drive 19 5 days DUBLIN’S NORTH COAST MAYO’S COASTAL SPLENDOUR Drive 24 Dublin to Ardgillan Demesne 146 Westport to Doogort 190 THE LAND OF ST PATRICK 2 days 2–3 days Belfast to the Mountains of Mourne 242 3 days Drive 25 Below Hay bales in the pretty countryside Below The entrance to 400-year-old Trinity College, around Skerries, near Dublin Dublin, Ireland’s oldest and most prestigious university FERMANAGH LAKELANDS Belleek to Boa Island 250 2 days INDEX 258 Title page: Horse-drawn caravan on the shores of Doolough, Co Mayo Half-title page: Quiet country road from Carran to Caherconnel in the Burren, Co Clare 004-005_Back_Roads_Ireland.indd 5 12/09/17 2:25 pm BacBkR R_oIaRd_s006-007.indd 6 LAYERS PRINTED: 30/07/12 2:10 PM Frontmatter “UK” LAYER About this book & Introducing template (OpenType) Date 24th March 2009 Size 145mm x 217mm Fonts Myriad Pro About this Book 7 About this Book The 25 driving tours in this guide reflect the oldest cultures, glimpses of which can be found fantastic diversity of Ireland. Although it is a in its mysterious prehistoric sites, its quaint relatively small island – 488 km (303 miles) long stone villages and its ancient native tongue. and 304 km (189 miles) at its widest point – it has These driving routes take visitors beyond the an amazing variety of terrain. The landscape must-see tourist sights to lesser-known places ranges from rolling green pastures and fertile that provide a more intimate experience of fields to mountain peaks, dramatic coastline, the people, customs, architecture and cuisine. sandy beaches, tranquil lakes (loughs), great Expect delightful surprises around every bend, stretches of blanket bog and rocky peninsulas packed with the sights, sounds and flavours jutting out to sea. Ireland has one of Europe’s of the real Ireland. Getting Started dramatic landscapes of Connemara The front section of the guide will and Donegal to Northern Ireland’s Using the Sheet Map give you all the practical information stunning Causeway Coast. A pull-out road map of the entire you need to plan and enjoy a driving Each drive begins with a list of country is supplied. This map holiday in Ireland. It includes an highlights and a clearly mapped contains all the information you overview of when to go and how to itinerary. There is advice on the best need to drive around the country get there, advice on bringing your time of year to do the drive, road and to navigate between the own vehicle or hiring one and details conditions, market days and major tours. All motorways, major of any documentation required. In- festival dates. The tour pages contain roads, airports – both domestic depth motoring advice ranges from descriptions of each stop on the route, and international – plus all the driving rules to road conditions, from linked by clear driving instructions. ferry ports are also easily buying petrol to breakdown or Side panels have information on the identified. This makes the pull- accident procedures – the kind of most authentic places to stay and out map an excellent addition to background knowledge that helps to eat. Tinted boxes feature background the drive itinerary maps within make a driving trip stress-free. There information and anecdotes. the book. The pull-out map also is information on money, opening Each drive features at least one has a comprehensive index to hours, communications, health and mapped town or countryside help you find the places, and is safety and other practical matters, as walking tour, designed to take a further supplemented by a clear well as advice on accommodation maximum of two hours at a gentle distance chart so you can gauge and dining options, to ensure that pace with stops along the way. the distances between the major you experience the very best of The tours are flexible: some can cities in Ireland. Ireland’s legendary hospitality. be linked to create a longer driving holiday; or they can be dipped into The Drives as day trips while based in a region. The main touring section of the guide is divided into leisurely drives, ranging in duration from two to five days. All the tours can be driven in a standard vehicle, and no special driving skills are required. The drives encompass every region of the country, from the gentle plains of Kildare to the rocky peninsulas of Cork and Kerry, from the remote and Top far left Devil’s Pass near Lough Nafooey, Connemara Top left Rainbow over West Cork Centre far left Fishing boats in Cobh Harbour, Co Cork Centre left Old-fashioned truck, Sheep’s Head Peninsula, Co Cork Far left Dublin’s Temple Bar area Left Baldoyle Beach, near Dublin Right Road to Rossapena on the Fanad Peninsula BR_IR_006-007.indd 7 30/07/12 2:10 PM Bac0k0 R8o-0a0d9s_Back_Roads_Ireland.indd 8 LAYERS PRINTED: 11/09/17 12:29 pm Frontmatter “UK” LAYER About this book & Introducing template (OpenType) Date 24th March 2009 Size 145mm x 217mm Fonts Myriad Pro

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