Private Tour: Ring of Beara from Kenmare.
- 6–8 hours
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Private tour
Highlights
Ring of Beara tour through Healy Pass, Derreen Gardens, visit Cable Car station to Dursey Island. Garnish Island optionally (depended on boat availability). Drive through all most colorful villages of Beara Peninsula along the coast with spectacular view at Atlantic Ocean. Visit to Uragh Stone Circle beautifully located between two lakes with a view at mysterious waterfall.
Inclusions
What's included
- Private transportation
- Bottled water
- Air-conditioned vehicle
Itinerary
Ring of Beara is loop drive around Beara Peninsula through most colourful villages. Ardgroom, Eyeries and Allihies, villages like from a fairy tale. Castletownbere town is great spot for lunch. Fishing town offering freshest seafood , nearly straight from the boat. Healy Pass in the middle of Beara peninsula is not at the Ring really but must not be skipped. Private tourers can reach this spectacular viewing point. On top we may expect more and more pretty places mostly available for passenger cars and vans only.
Molly Gallivan's cottage is most traditional and authentic old Irish place. Like museum of Irish folklore. Visiting the place is like moving back in time, hundred years ago or more. Even tea is served from a real fireplace.
Beautiful spot providing really spectacular view Kenmare bay and Bantry bay on the other side of peninsula. Charming Glanmore lake down below with some rocky islands and really idyllic farmlands.
Derreen Garden. Mysterious land of little Derrinies and lot of exotic plants, specially known because a variety and large size of rhododendrons. Beautiful walk at the little cosy ponds in kind of rain forest.
Uragh Stone Circle is in exceptional location between two lakes on the heal with spectacular view at Gleninchaquin Waterfall. This impressive monument with tallest stone of 10 feet above the ground and probably 10 feet underground and central stone which was an altar for scarfing victims, maybe humans too.
Copper mining in Allihies dates back to 1812. In 1845 mines rreached it's peak and were employing around 1600 people. Mines were suffered with local area after the potato famine. Mines were working up to 1962.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Pickup
- Pickup is offered, or you can meet at the starting point.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Peter Stanley tours
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
How it compares in Kenmare
- Its from-price is 59% below the median of the 17 experiences we list in Kenmare.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 3 of 17.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Kenmare
Kenmare is a heritage town at the head of Kenmare Bay in County Kerry, between the Ring of Kerry and Beara, with a stone circle and good food.
Kenmare sits at the head of Kenmare Bay in south-west Ireland, with the mountains of the Beara and Iveragh peninsulas on either side. The town was laid out as a planned settlement in the eighteenth century, and its colourful main streets are lined with shops, pubs and restaurants. A Bronze Age stone circle stands on the edge of the town, and Kenmare lace, first made by nuns in the nineteenth century, is recalled in a heritage centre.
Top-ranked sights in Kenmare: Ring of Beara.
