Day Tours from Dublin

A series of magical mystery tours describing itineraries with something for everyone: while many well-known sites are included, this guide also takes you to lots of little known, out-of-the-way and often quirky places that new roads have brought closer to Dublin. Includes stops for refreshments and idyllic picnic spots are included.

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Day Tours from Dublin takes the reader on twenty itineraries, all accessible in a single day by car from anywhere in the city. It includes such destinations as Avondale, Courtown Harbour, Ballitore and Moone, Birr Castle, Clonmacnoise, Tullynally, Newgrange and Slieve Gullion.




Each route is described in detail in Michael Fewer’s inimitable, lucid and compelling prose. He writes knowledgeably of history, folklore and, in particular, the built environment. In the Ballitore and the Moone tour, for instance, you learn that the Dublin Gliding Club, whose gates you pass, welcomes visitors; that Ballymore Eustace was the first Norman town on the Liffey protecting a river crossing; and that in Killeen Cormac you can find the grave of King Cormac of Munster.




Day Tours from Dublin is the perfect family guide and will appeal to the growing market for offbeat leisure activity in the greater Dublin region.