Page 7 - (DK Eyewitness) Back Roads Travel Guide - Ireland

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
Enniskerry to Mount Drive 17 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
THE PLAINS OF KILDARE 2 days
Celbridge to Drive 18 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
Dublin to Ardgillan MAYO’S COASTAL SPLENDOUR Drive 24
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

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