Private Tour: Ring of Beara from Killarney.
- 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. As private tour, we can customise it. We can visit some places out of bitten tracks. We can stop whenever we want, also for food in some restaurant serving local people mostly. Private tour is great experience, it gives time and flexibility.
Inclusions
What's included
- Private transportation
- Bottled water
- Air-conditioned vehicle
Itinerary
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.
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.
Kenmare town (Ceann Mara- head of the sea) Previously Neidin- little nest. 16th, 17th centry town of pirates and smugglers. Charming town designed by Sir Oliver William Petty who was granted this area as a part of payment for mapping of Ireland. He laid out a modern town in 1670. Now Kenmare town is visited by many people because it's beauty.
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.
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.
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.
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 Killarney
- Its from-price is 62% below the median of the 76 day trips we list in Killarney.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 45 of 76.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Killarney
Killarney is a small County Kerry town beside a national park of lakes, mountains and old woodland, and the usual start of the Ring of Kerry.
Killarney National Park, on the town's doorstep, takes in three lakes and ancient oak and yew woods, with the MacGillycuddy's Reeks rising to the west, where Carrauntoohil is the highest mountain in Ireland. Muckross House is a Victorian mansion with gardens on a lake shore, Muckross Abbey is a ruined friary, Ross Castle stands on the water, and Torc Waterfall drops through the woods. The park shelters Ireland's only native herd of red deer.
Top-ranked sights in Killarney: Killarney National Park, Ladies View, Ross Castle.
