Page 319 - Lonely Planet Europe’s Best Trips (Travel Guide)

S C O T L A N D 54 p312, p326
The Drive » It’s 165km of
motorway to Belfast – M1 in
Campbeltown # ] the Republic, A1 in Northern
Giant's Ireland – but remember that
Causeway the speed limit changes from
Dunfanaghy # Ballycastle
3
#
# \ #
4
# Buncrana # \ #H # \ North kilometres to miles as you
Rosses #H # ] Coleraine Channel cross into the North.
4¼
Bay p319 4¼ 4¼ # ^ 4¼ A37 p318
A2
N56
A26
Letterkenny # \ N13 Derry 4¼ Larne
4¼ # ] Strabane Ballymena # \ # \ 4¼ 2 Belfast
N56
4¼ Antrim \ # A2 Belfast is in many ways
A5
]
# Donegal # a brand-new city. Once
2
Donegal # ] Omagh Belfast # lumped with Beirut,
Bay \ # Lisburn
4¼ # ] Bundoran 4¼ Dromore # \ Baghdad and Bosnia as
N15
A4
# ] Armagh # ] # ] Banbridge one of the four ‘Bs’ for IRELAND 23 THE LONG WAY ROuND
# ] #
Sligo # Enniskillen # ] 4¼ travellers to avoid, in
5
A1
# \ Ballysadare Monaghan # ] Newry recent years it has pulled
4¼ off a remarkable transfor-
# \
N17
# ] Dundalk
# \ 4¼ Dundalk mation from bombs-
Charlestown N4 4¼ : : Bay and-bullets pariah to a
N3
: : :
Longford Irish hip-hotels-and-hedonism
#
\ # Drogheda ] Sea party town.
Roscommon \ # 4¼ : Mullingar 4¼ The old shipyards on
M1
# \ Tuam N55 : : # \ # \ Swords the Lagan continue to
L
M6
# \Athlone F G 4¼ Dublin l give way to the luxury
Ballinasloe 22 # apartments of the Titanic
# 1
#
# ^ 4¼ # \ Tullamore I Quarter, whose centre-
# \
M6
4¼ 4¼ Naas # \ p366 # \ Bray piece, the stunning, star-
\
#
N65
M7
F G Birr # \ # Portlaoise Greystones shaped edifice housing
26
\
Nenagh 4¼ Wicklow # \
M7
\ #
# \ Carlow # \ Arklow \ #
Thurles LINK
M11
#
^ # \ # ] Kilkenny 4¼ YOUR
Limerick
# ] Cashel 4¼ 44 TRIP
M9
# Enniscorthy
Tipperary # \ \
\ # Iconic Ireland
Clonmel # \ New Ross # ]Wexford m
Waterford # ^ # Rosslare For comprehensive
\
Mallow 4¼ 4¼ 44ur coverage of the best of north
Harbo
M8
# \ N25
# \ Dungarvan and south, combine these
St George's
Youghal # \ # Channel two trips making a loop from
# #Ardmore
\ 14
# ^ # 4¼
Cork # N25 m K Galway.
13
# \
Cobh Musical
q Landscapes
Take a detour from Galway
through County Clare’s
A T L A N T I C hottest trad music spots,
O C E A N
picking up the trail again in
Ennis.
# e 0 0 80 km
50 miles
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