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                                                 Two Weeks in Ireland

                                                 •   Get to know Ireland’s vibrant
                                                  capital, Dublin.
                                                 •  Discover the wild Wicklow
                                                  Mountains; spend some
                                                  time shopping and eating in
                                                  the lovely city of Kilkenny.
                                                 •   Visit the oldest city in Ireland –
                                         Kilkenny  Waterford – founded by
                            The picturesque city of Kilkenny   the Vikings in 914.
             Dunluce       sits on the banks of the River Nore.
 Horn Head    Castle  Giant’s Causeway           •  Take a tour of the scenic
          Portrush
 Bloody Foreland  Benone Strand  Old Bushmills    Dingle Peninsula and
                 Distillery                       spend an evening in the
 The Rosses  DONEGAL  Derry                       laid-back town of Dingle.
           DERRY  ANTRIM
                                                 •   Walk in the beautiful
                                                  Connemara National Park;
 Glencolmcille  NORTHERN                          end the day in Westport.
 Donegal    IRELAND       Ulster Folk and        •  Scramble over the weird
                          Transport Museum
       TYRONE     Belfast   Mount Stewart
                            House                 and wonderful landscape
                                                  of the Giant’s Causeway
                            Portaferry
 Sligo               DOWN   Strangford            in County Antrim.
  FERMANAGH
             ARMAGH  Downpatrick
 SLIGO  LEITRIM  MONAGHAN
 Achill
 Island  MAYO                                Giant’s
      CAVAN                             Dunluce  Causeway
                                         Castle
               LOUTH                            Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
 Westport  ROSCOMMON            Benone Strand  Portrush  Old
  LONGFORD                                   Bushmills
 Kylemore                                    Distillery     Three Days in
 Abbey     MEATH  Boyne Valley
 Connemara NP  REPUBLIC OF  Newgrange and Knowth  Derry  DERRY  Northern Ireland
 Clifden  Hill of Tara                        ANTRIM
 IRELAND  WESTMEATH
 Roundstone
 Galway                                 NORTHERN
                   Dublin
 GALWAY  OFFALY                          IRELAND        Bangor
 Ballyvaughan  KILDARE  Powerscourt  TYRONE     Belfast   Millisle
 Doolin  Mullaghmore  Military Road                       Mount Stewart
 Cliffs of Moher  LAOIS  WICKLOW  Wicklow                 House
 CLARE             Mountains                      DOWN    Portaferry
 Ennis                               Armagh              Strangford
 Kilkee                                          Downpatrick
 Bunratty Castle  CARLOW                 ARMAGH
 Killimer  Limerick  Kilkenny
 Tarbert  TIPPERARY
       Bennettsbridge
 LIMERICK  Cashel
     KILKENNY  WEXFORD
 Dingle
 Peninsula  Tralee                Three Days in Northern Ireland
 Ballyferriter  Waterford
 KERRY
 Dingle  WATERFORD
 Killarney  CORK                  •  Head out from Belfast    •  Visit the walled city of
 Youghal                            to explore the stunning   Londonderry and learn
 Ring of Kerry  Kenmare  Cork       Ards Peninsula; stop   about its history at the
 Midleton
                                    off to tour Mount   Tower Museum.
                                    Stewart House.
 Bantry  Kinsale                                   •   See the atmospheric
             0 kilometres  50     •  Spend an evening in    ruins of Dunluce Castle
 Drombeg
 Stone Circle  0 miles     50       Belfast’s historic   perched on a cliff on the
 Baltimore
                                    drinking palace, the   Causeway Coastline.
                                    Crown Liquor Saloon.    •  Explore the Giant’s
                                  •   Wander the streets of   Causeway and walk the
                                    one of Ireland’s oldest   scary Carrick-a-rede
                                    cities, Armagh.  Rope Bridge.
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