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Nice places to visit in Ireland?

  • 27-05-2009 11:00pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,558 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    So, I've been living in Ireland for a long time now, but I really haven't seen much of it.

    Mainly it was because I'm a terrible navigator and I can't read a map to save my life and whenever I got lost, I'd get pissed, road raged, threw tantrums, tried to read a map, got even more pissed, ripped up the map, filled up the gas tank and drove around until I finally somehow found my home. So in the end, I'd be pissed and didn't want to go again.


    But now, I bought a GPS........And God/Budda/Allah/Science bless the people who invented the GPS, man, what a relief, I don't know why the F I didn't buy it before... well actually I know, I wasn't sure about it, until I saw one in my friend's car.

    So anyways, I don't get pissed anymore and I'd like to see some nice places around Dublin and whole Ireland even.

    I was to Enniskerry recently, visited the Powerscourt House & Garden, it was great... I'd like to see more nice places.

    Can you suggest any?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    Getting lost is half the fun

    also Ireland is really boring


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    Stayed in a nice place last year called Gorey, County Wexford.. nice little town, beach, big hills with great views.

    And, more importantly, an internet cafe that did the nicest scones


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 20,759 ✭✭✭✭dlofnep


    Connemara is fecking lovely.

    It really depends on what you're into though..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,593 ✭✭✭Sea Sharp


    In terms of nature walks etc..
    Glendalough
    Donegal has a few nice places.
    oh and don't forget Tallagh.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    Just about anywhere on the North, West or South coasts. Don't like the midlands, except for Tipperary!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    Galway is a cool city.
    Wicklow is pretty, you could go to Glendelough.
    Clair is a nice place too, there's the Burren and the Cliffs of Mohr. Also the surf town of Lahinch is located there, if you're into surfing.
    Donegal is pretty too and excellent for surfing.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    dublin airport


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    dublin airport
    Great place for an eastern-european safari


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Kerry is pretty wild looking actually.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    brummytom wrote: »
    Great place for an eastern-european safari

    there's parnell street for that


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  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    the coast in the couth west is lovely when it warm, same for the cost in the couth east and the south proper... actually, the coast in general is nice...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Seaneh wrote: »
    the coast in the couth west is lovely when it warm, same for the cost in the couth east and the south proper... actually, the coast in general is nice...
    Bite your tongue?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,572 ✭✭✭✭brummytom


    there's parnell street for that

    Or Temple bar... who's ever heard of a Mexican Restuarant in Dublin run by a Polish family? just seemed odd...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,493 ✭✭✭DazMarz


    Lisdoonvarna and around the Burren in Co. Clare is gorgeous. ''The Roadside Tavern'' in Lisdoon is an excellent pub. Be sure to try the 'Declan Hunter' toasted sandwich!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭Reoil


    Achill Island, Antrim Coast, Cork and Kerry. Start there and ask us again in 10 years...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,030 ✭✭✭marko91


    ballymun, finglas, tallagh....toull have a blast


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    DazMarz wrote: »
    Lisdoonvarna and around the Burren in Co. Clare is gorgeous. ''The Roadside Tavern'' in Lisdoon is an excellent pub. Be sure to try the 'Declan Hunter' toasted sandwich!
    Go for a hike in the hills East of there and the Ailwee caves - view of the bay from up there is unbelievable. Took some photos once upon a time but they do it no justice.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    marko91 wrote: »
    ballymun, finglas, tallagh....toull have a blast

    Temple bar on a friday night...


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    marko91 wrote: »
    ballymun, finglas, tallagh....toull have a blast

    where's tallagh? is it anywhere near dolphins barn:pac:


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 18,300 ✭✭✭✭Seaneh


    Overheal wrote: »
    Bite your tongue?

    I did actually... how teh fook did it transfer :P typos here, typos there, typos, typos everywhere!


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,558 ✭✭✭netwhizkid


    Try Lisdoonvarna, Some aul fella will try matchmake you with some Japanese tourist!:pac:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,171 ✭✭✭af_thefragile


    where's tallagh? is it anywhere near dolphins barn:pac:

    Its where the red luas line ends...
    And its called the "red line" for a reason.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 Fear na gCrub


    Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry. A place to get lost in if you get out and about. Don't go (to Dingle town especially) on a bank holiday in the summer if you can avoid it. Other than that a super place.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭sidneykidney


    Newgrange in the boyne valley in meath is worth a trip.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 38 xcrieve


    Wicklow, Aran Islands & Connemara to Leenane


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,721 ✭✭✭✭CianRyan


    My gaff's great, stall it. :pac:




    Really though, just get a few mates and drive around the west coast for a while, good buzz.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 38 xcrieve


    Newgrange in the boyne valley in meath is worth a trip.
    It is, but get there reaaaallly early


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    Reoil wrote: »
    Achill Island, Antrim Coast, Cork and Kerry. Start there and ask us again in 10 years...

    good choice, you missed donegal though, loads of stuff to see there

    the road between portrush and ballycastle in north antrim has great beaches, an ancient castle on a cliff, a rope bridge high above the sea, the oldest whiskey distillery in the world and something called the giants causeway which nobody has ever heard of.....

    connemara is really nice, irelands only fjord in Leenane is worth the drive, careful the flies don't eat you alive in summer though :(

    there is a ton of things to see and do in this country if you look, something as simple as a cruise on the river shannon while spending saturday night soaking up carrick on shannon rather good and free nightlife to doing the entire ring of kerry during rose of tralee week, nobody is that insane though :P


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,987 ✭✭✭ottostreet


    netwhizkid wrote: »
    Try Lisdoonvarna, Some aul fella will try matchmake you with some Japanese tourist!:pac:


    tell me more?


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,898 ✭✭✭✭seanybiker


    dublin airport

    Fook ya. Got there before me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9,534 ✭✭✭SV


    ottostreet wrote: »
    tell me more?

    you really are obsessed..

    and yet you still don't consider it weird.


  • Posts: 0 [Deleted User]


    This time of year when the sun might shine and the Rhodendrums are in Bloom. Connemara is the most beautiful place in the world.

    Diamond hill is well worth a climb.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    seanybiker wrote: »
    Fook ya. Got there before me.

    [pat mustard]you have to get up very early in the morning to catch me father[/pat mustard]


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭North_West_Art


    Donegal, hands down... great atmosphere, friendly people, late bars, great scenery, easy going, cheap rates for accommadation (generally), great fishing, the best golf courses at reasonable rates... you'll want to stay,
    and no, I dont work for NW tourism :) Its also very handy to pop over and back into the north..


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,407 ✭✭✭Quint


    The north east Antrim coast drive, from Larne around the top corner (do the Torr head detour) right around to Portrush is a fantastic drive.
    Try the motorcycle photo rally. It's a list of 24 or 25 things you drive around and take a photo beside if you have a bike, but their always off the beaten track and interesting. This years list is here: http://www.irishphotorally.com/forms/photo-rally-2009.pdf
    Obviously you can't enter the competition, but some nice drives to go on. More info on it here and you can download the locations to your GPS here.
    You can search for previous years one too if you want nearby locations


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 weetobs


    just back from antrim and had a brilliant time...went to see the giants causeway and carrick a ree rope bridge.stayed an bushmills and your really close to all these things including the distillery....oldest licenced whiskeydistillery in the world!if ya like scenic things definitely go here i loved it!:rolleyes:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭North_West_Art


    weetobs wrote: »
    just back from antrim and had a brilliant time...went to see the giants causeway and carrick a ree rope bridge.stayed an bushmills and your really close to all these things including the distillery....oldest licenced whiskeydistillery in the world!if ya like scenic things definitely go here i loved it!:rolleyes:

    I detect by your eyes to heaven symbol that you may have been 'overwhelmed' by the colourful display that is put on each year at this time in Bushmills... I for one, would not stay over there for the night... although I have a friend from Donegal that lived there for a year. So its not for me to judge how it would be for a Southerner to spend time there... having said that, the North Antrim coast is a must see, Ballycastle is a great town on high season, as is Portrush.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 12 weetobs


    it was a bit overwhelming!but ive always wanted to see the giants causeway so that was only a small notch in my holiday!did go out for a few drinks too but everyone was really nice and the lady that runs the b+b was a sweetheart.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    weetobs wrote: »
    just back from antrim and had a brilliant time...went to see the giants causeway and carrick a ree rope bridge.stayed an bushmills and your really close to all these things including the distillery....oldest licenced whiskeydistillery in the world!if ya like scenic things definitely go here i loved it!:rolleyes:

    I did that last year, i was astounded how beautiful the coastline is there, well worth a visit .:cool:


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,070 ✭✭✭✭pq0n1ct4ve8zf5


    DazMarz wrote: »
    Lisdoonvarna and around the Burren in Co. Clare is gorgeous. ''The Roadside Tavern'' in Lisdoon is an excellent pub. Be sure to try the 'Declan Hunter' toasted sandwich!

    Don't go near it in September though, trust a local. And Doolin has better pubs, that's where all the cool kids go :P but yes the Roadside is a wonderful place, people who own it and the smokehouse (I think they still own in anyway) are lovely


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,848 ✭✭✭soundsham


    misread that thought it was Nine places.....................
    keeping that list to myself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    Connemara is stunning. Aran Islands worth a gander too, if it's sunny.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 299 ✭✭7mountpleasant


    Big fan of aimless driving , moved to leitrim last year and love just turning off the main road and in between carrick around carrick on shannon , lovely old estate houses , beauttiful views of the shannon, fantastic lakes but most off all the lack of people, and only an hour and three quarters from dublin.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,939 ✭✭✭mardybumbum


    Clonakilty. West cork in general.
    Stunning place to be.
    De Barras has to be the best music pub in the country.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,473 ✭✭✭✭Super-Rush


    Roscommon, but it won't be on your Sat nav...


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,691 ✭✭✭Lia_lia


    Clarnayyy


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭Birdie086


    Limerick is always good for the brave.......


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 417 ✭✭muffy


    Garnish Island in West Cork, one of the most beautiful places I have ever been, has turquoise coloured sea and all, and on the boat trip out there are lots of seals to see. Defo worth a visit.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garnish_Island


    Sally Gap (snigger) is nice too


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,175 ✭✭✭chamlis


    You can't go wrong with Kerry tbh. Kilarney and Dingle penninsula particularly.

    Just don't stay in Tralee too long.

    I discovered a little town called Kilkee in Co. Clare on my way to the cliffs of Moher a few months ago. I guess you could call it a cove of sorts, the town sort of wraps around this little bay, with a natural break water at the mouth. I liked it alot.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,729 ✭✭✭Acoshla


    Definitely definitely go to Achill Island, was there a few weeks ago, so beautiful, go off up to Keem Beach for a while, it's absolutely gorgeous, and the deserted village is fascinating, such a gorgeous island!


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