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Dingle Peninsula

(Corca Dhuibhne) — a Gaeltecht region (Irish-speaking district) in the very South West corner of Ireland

58km

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Ring of Kerry

The Ring of Kerry is probably the most visited attraction in Ireland outside of Dublin.

70km

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Sights (12)

Portmagee

village in County Kerry, Ireland

20km

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Killarney National Park

national park in Kerry, Ireland

110km

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Innisfallen Island

island

111km

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Ross Castle

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Torc Waterfall

A beautiful waterfall in the Killarney National Park. Covered in tours of local attractions.

116km

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Fitzgerald Stadium

116km

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Muckross House

This area of the park also boasts the "Muckross Traditional Farms", a perfect outing for the kids. A ring walk (not very long, approx 2 hours from start to finish, including stops), leads you past several 'traditional farmhouses'. These farmhouses demonstrate 'the way we were'. During the summer, there are often litters of kittens and puppies, which the children will be delighted with as you watch the demonstrations of soda bread and butter making, a sample of which will be given to you if you behave!

116km

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Muckross Abbey

Beautiful ruin of a Franciscan friary that was founded in 1448. The ruin is completely open (except when certain sections undergo restoration work) and you can wander through the rooms independently.

117km

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Dún Aonghasa

fort

125km

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Moher Tower

A square stone ruin which appears to be the remains of a watchtower placed to monitor the coastline for invading fleets during Napoleon's reign in Europe.

143km

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O'Brien's Tower

You can climb O'Brien's Tower for the highest vantage point on the cliffs. O'Brien's Tower is a round stone tower at the approximate midpoint of the cliffs. It was built by Sir Cornellius O'Brien, a descendant of Ireland's High King Brian Boru, in 1835, as an observation tower for the hundreds of tourists that frequented the cliffs even at that date. From the watchtower, one can view the Aran Islands and Galway Bay, the Maum Turk Mountains and the Twelve Bens to the north in Connemara, and Loop Head to the south.

147km

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Burren and Cliffs of Moher Geopark

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148km

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Nature

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Skellig Michael

Ireland
Someday we will visit Skellig Michael or begin to dream about going there! However, for now its not on our radar. Let us know in the comments if you think that should change!

Skellig Michael

Skellig Michael (Irish: Sceilig Mhichíl) is a small island in Ireland off the coast of County Kerry.

Several films and documentaries have used the island as a filming location. The island was used as a location for Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017) and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). It also served as a location for the final scene in Heart of Glass by Werner Herzog. In the first episode of the 1969 BBC documentary Civilisation: A Personal View by Kenneth Clark, the art historian Kenneth Clark described the island's buildings and pathways as "an extraordinary achievement of courage and tenacity". He observed that "Looking back from the great civilizations of twelfth-century France or seventeenth-century Rome, it is hard to believe, that for quite a long time – almost a hundred years – western Christianity survived by clinging to places like Skellig Michael, a pinnacle of rock eighteen miles from the Irish coast, rising 700 feet [210 m] out of the sea."

Skellig Michael contains three landing points variously used by monks depending on the weather conditions. Today the island receives an average of 11,000 visitors per year. To protect the site, the Office of Public Works limits the number of visitors to 180 per day. The local climate and exposed terrain makes crossing from the mainland to Skellig Michael difficult. Once landed, the island's terrain is steep, unprotected and dangerous. The rock is ascended via 600 medieval stone steps leading towards the main island peak.

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