Zatino Travel

Where to go

Five places we build routes around.

Not a catalogue of Ireland, and not everything we know. These are the five places we keep coming back to, written out with the time we give each one and how we get between them — so you can see how a route actually gets built.

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The Cliffs of Moher and O'Brien's tower above the Atlantic
Where the five places sit in IrelandA schematic plot on a grid, not a map. Glendalough and County Wicklow sit in the east; Galway and Connemara, County Clare and County Kerry sit along the west and south-west; the Rock of Cashel sits inland to the south-east of those.NEWicklowGalwayClareKerryTipperarySchematic · relative positions only
Plotted from each place's coordinates. This is a schematic, not a map — it shows how the five sit relative to each other, and the road distances are on each page.

How to read these

Places, not packages.

Each page covers the places we actually use, the time we give them, how long the drive between them is, and what the weather does to the plan. What is not here is a price or a date: those change constantly, and putting them on a web page would only be wrong by the time you read it. What we can give you instead is the thinking behind a route.

The East

County Wicklow — about ninety minutes south of Dublin, on the road south.

The round tower at Glendalough, a conical dry-stone tower above a field wall

County Wicklow

Glendalough & County Wicklow

A monastic valley about ninety minutes from Dublin, and the walking country that surrounds it.

3 places, with time allowed

The West Coast

Galway, Connemara and Clare: the west coast, where most of a first trip goes.

Kylemore Abbey beside its lake in Connemara

County Galway

Galway & Connemara

A city of coloured shopfronts on the water's edge, and the mountain and coast country to the west of it.

7 places, with time allowed
The Cliffs of Moher and O'Brien's tower above the Atlantic

County Clare

County Clare & the Cliffs of Moher

One cliff walk we build a day around, and a county we otherwise drive through on the way to Kerry.

2 places, with time allowed

The South

Kerry and Tipperary — the south-west, and the road west to the coast.

A wooded lake in County Kerry with mountains behind

County Kerry

County Kerry

Killarney as a base, the Ring of Kerry as a road rather than a destination, and a peninsula you reach by ferry.

6 places, with time allowed
The Rock of Cashel on its limestone outcrop under a pink sunset sky

County Tipperary

The Rock of Cashel

A monastic site on a limestone outcrop that anchors almost every route between Dublin and Cork.

2 places, with time allowed

Place guides rather than packages. Access, opening times and site arrangements change — we build the final route around your group and your dates.

None of these are fixed packages.

Every route above is a starting shape. Tell us who is travelling and what the trip has to achieve, and we will rebuild it around you.

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Not sure which one

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Tell us who is travelling, why, and when. We will shape the right journey or programme around your needs.

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