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Summary

The "Drive Around" series is an indispensable guide to touring a country or region by car. A great combination of guidebook and route map, they highlight all the best places of interest with detours to avoid the main tourist trails. No touring holiday is complete without one of these essential guides. A great combination of guidebook and route map, they contain everything the self-drive traveller needs en route. It includes features such as: unique guidebooks for fly-drive travellers; road safety information for drivers; descriptive instruction setting the scene for the route ahead; rules of the road explained for each destination; full-colour detailed maps with major destinations and places of interest along the route clearly pinpointed; and helps you select accommodation, dining, and shopping options.

About Drive Around Guides	p. 8
Ireland at a glance	p. 10
Introduction	p. 12
Travel facts	p. 14
Driver's guide	p. 28
Getting to Ireland	p. 34
Setting the scene	p. 36
Highlights	p. 44
Dublin and environs: Visit Temple Bar and admire the Book of Kells	p. 46
The Boyne Valley: Prehistoric and Celtic remains and battle scars	p. 62
Around the Wicklow Mountains: Glendalough monastic site and Powerscourt Gardens	p. 72
The Midlands: Castles and canals among the peat bogs	p. 82
Kildare to Cashel: Jerpoint Abbey, the National Stud and the mighty Rock of Cashel	p. 94
County Wexford: Historic harbours and golden sands	p. 106
Waterford Byways: Wild cliffs and sheltered coves	p. 118
Cork City: Lively nightlife and acclaimed centre of the arts	p. 128
Cork Environs: Kiss the Blarney Stone and see where emigrants departed for new lands	p. 136
Southwest Cork: Stone circles and mysterious ogham stones	p. 144
The Ring of Kerry: Famous for its vistas of mountains and seas	p. 152
The Dingle Peninsula: Gaelic music, friendly pubs and curious beehive huts	p. 160
Shannonside: Along the banks of the Shannon to Limerick and Bunratty Castle	p. 168
County Clare: The wildflowers of the Burren and the Cliffs of Moher	p. 178
Galway City: Traditional music and fresh seafood	p. 188
Connemara: Wild heaths, sculpted mountains and the remote Aran Islands	p. 196
County Mayo: The miraculous shrine at Knock and St Patrick's holy mountain	p. 208
County Sligo: Ireland's capital of music and poetry	p. 218
Fermanagh Lakeland: Islands, lakes, fishing and woodland walks	p. 226
County Donegal: Spectacular cliffs bordering the Atlantic	p. 234
Central Ulster: Historic Derry and the Ulster American Folk Park	p. 246
The Antrim Coast: The Giant's Causeway and Bushmills disrillery	p. 256
Belfast: Grand Victorian buildings and sophisticated bars	p. 264
Belfast Environs: The Mountains of Mourne and basking seals	p. 274
Language	p. 282
Index	p. 283
Feedback form	p. 287
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"It's not, however, the turquoise blue of the lakes, the purple grey of the mountains or the tawny gold pelt of the boglands at sunset that is most frequently used to describe Ireland. This is, after all, the emerald isle, and it is the spectrum of greens you most remember, from dark and lush to shimmering with an almost electric brightness."

Excerpted from Drive Around Ireland: Your Guide to Great Drives Top 25 Tours by Donna Dailey
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