Whiskey, Culinary & Genealogy - 7 Day Tour of Ireland Discover Ireland's Spectacular Coastline "Wild Atlantic Way" & Taste Ireland's Artisan Food ...
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Whiskey, Culinary & Genealogy 7 Day Tour of Ireland Discover Ireland’s Spectacular Coastline “Wild Atlantic Way” & Taste Ireland’s Artisan Food from Land & Sea. www.wildatlanticwaydaytours.com
Day 1 Arrive Shannon Airport - ‘Céad Míle Fáilte’ Travel to Galway – ‘European Region of Gastronomy 2018’. www.galwaygastronomy.ie Check into Galway Bay Hotel . www.galwaybayhotel.ie Rest 14:00pm Walking tour of Galway City accompanied by your Tour Guide & Genealogist. 18:00pm Dinner in ‘Hooked Restaurant’ Galway’s leading Seafood Restaurant. www.hookedhenryst.com
Day 2
Tour of Connemara
9:00am Travel the Coast Road by the homestead of famous Movie Director John Ford –
‘The Quiet Man’ starring John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara
Visit Pearse Cottage & Visitor Centre – Home of Padraig Pearse Leader of the Easter
Rising 1916. www.heritageireland.ie
Take The Bog Road through Connemara’s wilderness to the fishing village of
Roundstone. Visit the Emigrants Commemorative Centre, Carna.
www.carnaemigrantscentre.com
From Roundstone travel the road by the edge of the Atlantic Ocean to the
Signature Discovery Points – Alcock & Brown - the first transatlantic landing site in
1919 & The Marconi Transatlantic Transmission Station 1907 site.
Walk the Coral Strand at Dun Loughan – a nature reserve & hidden gem.
Lunch at the Old Station House and Shopping in Clifden – the Capital of Connemara.
Drive the Sky Road to enjoy the most spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean.
On the way back to Galway, stop at Maam Cross and view The Quiet Man Bridge &
Cottage featured in The Quiet Man Movie.
Visit Micil Irish Poitin Distillery - Whiskey / Poitin tasting session and hear the
fascinating story of traditional Poitin making in Connemara. www.micilpoitin.com
19:00pm Dinner in Michelin Star Restaurant ‘Loam’ in Galway.
Loam – meaning ‘rich, fertile soil’ – focuses on modern ambitious cooking
rooted in tradition and seasonally driven. www.loamgalway.com
Day 3
Cliffs of Moher & The Burren - Clare
9:00am Visit Dunguaire Castle Kinvara – 16th Century Towerhouse.
Travel the Wild Atlantic Way through the UNESCO Heritage site of
The Burren to the fishing village of Doolin.
Lunch in the famous Irish Music Pub - Gus O’Connor’s of Doolin.
www.gusoconnorspubdoolin.net
Visit the Cliffs of Moher
Visit the Town of Lisdoonvarna – world famous for one of Ireland’s
oldest traditional Festivals – The Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking
Festival – over 150 years old. www.matchmakerireland.com
18:30pm Dinner in Moran’s Oyster Cottage, The Weir, Kilcolgan, Galway
Fresh Oysters and Guinness Tasting. www.moransoystercottage.com
Day 4
Depart for Killarney - Kerry
Visit Coole Park the site of the home of Lady Augusta Gregory, dramatist, folklorist and
co-founder with Poet William Butler Yeats of Ireland’s National Theatre – The Abbey
Theatre.
Visit Kiltartan Gregory Museum, Gort. The Schoolhouse built by Lady Gregory. View the
famous ‘Autograph Tree’.
Learn of Kiltartan School’s connection with the iconic photograph –
‘Lunch atop a Skyscraper’ taken in 1932 – Who are the men in the most famous
photograph in the World?
Lecture on History and Genealogy of the West of Ireland.
Travel on to Adare Village – an Irish Heritage Town. Lunch in the Heritage Centre.
Travel on to Killarney.
Check-in to Randles Hotel, Killarney. www.randleshotel.com Dinner in Hotel Restaurant.
Day 5
Dingle Peninsula
9:00am Tour The Dingle Peninsula.
Visit the location of David Lean’s Movie – ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ starring Robert
Mitchum, Sarah Miles & John Mills
Walk the famous Inch Beach.
Visit the Blasket Island Centre – learn of Irish Emigration in particular how the
people of Balsket Island made their new homes in Springfield Massachusetts,
USA. www.blasket.ie
Visit Dingle Distillery – an artisan distillery which has rekindled the independent
distillery tradition in Ireland. Enjoy the tastes of their original Unique Whiskey
and also the fruits of their labour in the forms of their original Gin and Vodka.
www.dingledestillery.com
20:00pm Dinner Gaby’s Restaurant, Killarney. www.gabys.ie
Day 6
Cork
9:00am Depart for Cork.
Visit Titanic Experience Cobh. The last Port of call of the ill-fated Titanic in 1912.
Live the history, feel the story of your ancestors departure from Ireland.
www.titanicexperiencecobh.ie
Visit The Famous Midleton Distillery - the home of Jameson Irish Whiskey.
Taste Ireland’s most iconic Whiskeys. www.jamesonwhiskey.com
Check-in to The Kingsley Hotel Cork – B&B and Dinner www.thekingsley.com
Lecture on the history and genealogy of Cork including the fascinating story
of Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company whose father William
Ford emigrated to America from Ballinascarthy, County Cork during the Great
Famine of Ireland in 1847.
Day 7
Depart for Shannon Airport
‘Slán abhaile’
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