
Kailee + Morgan
A Celtic Elopement
The Trip of a Lifetime
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Day 1 - Welcome to the Emerald Isle!
✈️ Fly to Dublin and pick up your rental car! (Be prepared to wait, Irish are slowwww)
🏨 Stay: Wineport Lodge
🌟 Highlights:
• Stop for a much needed tea and scone (with clotted cream and jam!) at Avoca Dunboyne 🍵
• Soak in the million shades of green on your leisurely drive across the middle of Ireland
• Stop at the Dún na Sí Heritage Park - Visit
• Drive on to Athlone (Seans Bar! Athlone Castle! Riverside Walk)
• Wander exhaustedly back to your hotel
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Day 2 - On to the Castle!
🚗 Drive to Ballynahinch Castle (≈ 2 hours)
🏨 Stay:Ballynahinch Castle Hotel
🌟 Highlights:
• Connemara National Park (Short stroll up to the Connemara Ponies @ Diamond Hill) Visit
• Drive Sky Road to Clifden for lunch
• Venture to Ballynahinch Castle & wander the immense grounds!
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Day 3 - A Handfasting to Remember
🏨 Stay: Ballynahinch Castle Hotel
🌿 Elopement Photoshoot Locations:
• Ballynahinch Castle Grounds - Stone bridges, river views, mossy forest paths
•Derryclaire Lough (12 Pines)
• Optional Clifden Castle ruins
🎉 Celebratory Dinner & Dessert with Sarah + Tyler in the pub OR alone in the fancy romantic Owenmore restaurant if you wanna be alone (we totally understand!). Note - Make a reservation early!
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Day 4 - Castle to Galway to Doolin
🚗 Drive to Doolin (≈ 2.5 hours)
🏨 Stay: Fiddle + Bow
🌟 Highlights:
• Galway City to see the Spanish Arch, wander through Eyre Square, gobble up grub in this foodie paradise
• Drive through the alien landscape of The Burren Visit
• See the amazing Cliffs of Moher Visit
• Dinner + Music @ Gus O’Connors Visit
• Explore Doolin Pier
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Day 5 - Doolin to Dingle
🚗 Drive to Dingle (≈ 3.5 hours)
🏨 Stay:AirBnB with Grainne or Dingle Benners Hotel
🌟 Highlights:
• Optional stop at Quinn Abbey (20 extra minutes but it’s rad)
• Bunratty Castle + Folk Park (stretch your legs, & grab lunch at Durty Nelly’s, the original castle shebeen) Visit
• Wander the thatched cottage wonderland that is Adare
• Arrive in Dingle to check in and explore
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Day 6 - Dingle Peninsula
🚗 Explore the Peninsula
🏨 Stay: AirBnB with Grainne or Dingle Benners Hotel
🌟 Highlights:
• Slea Head Loop Drive (jaw dropping views, stop often!) Scenic Drive
• Hike Cruach Mhàrthain (a short steep hike for insane views!) Hike
• Take your time on one of the world’s most beautiful drives, you have all day!
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Day 7 - Dingle to Kenmare
🚗 Drive to Kenmare (≈ 2 hours total)
🏨 Stay: Rookery Lane (eat ALL the coffee cake!)
🌟 Highlights:
• Gap of Dunloe walk Visit
• Muckross Abbey & the ancient yew Visit
• Killarney National Park Visit
• On to Kenmare to check in & explore & find live music!
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Day 8 - Kenmare to Blarney
🚗 Drive to Blarney (≈ 2 hours total)
🏨 Stay: Blarney Woolen Mills
🌟 Highlights:
• Drive the optional, but very worth it, Ring of Beara Scenic Drive
• Shop for sweaters in Glengarriff
• Onto Blarney Woolen Mills
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Day 9 - Blarney to Kilkenny
🚗 Drive to Blarney (≈ 2 hours total)
🏨 Stay: Butler House
🌟 Highlights:
• Blarney Castle + Gardens (Get there EARLY & book it to the stone, then slow down wander the grounds. Don’t miss the Witches Staircase & fern gardens!) Visit
• Rock of Cashel (Take the guided tour!) Visit
• Hoare Abbey (just below the main Rock, worth a wander!)
• Wander the charming and stunning Medieval Mile + check out the castle Visit
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Day 10 - Kilkenny to Dublin
🚗 Drive to Doolin (≈ 2.5 hours)
🏨 Stay: The Wilder
🌟 Highlights:
• Glendalough Monastic Site (walk to the lower or upper lake) Visit
• Powerscourt Estate (for amazing tea & scones, wander the grounds, check out the ENORMOUS waterfall) 🍵
• Drop-off rental car & uber into Dublin
• Explore around your hotel for the night!
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Day 11 - Dublin Fair City!
🏨 Stay: The Wilder
🌟 Highlights:
• Kilmainham Gaol Tour (worth the full tour, what a haunting, stunning place) Visit
• Dublin City Exploration
• Walk to St. Stephen’s Green, Temple Bar, Ha’Penny Bridge, + Guinness!
• Rub the Molly Malone (for Good luck!☘️) then Uber back to your hotel
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Day 12 - Homeward Bound
✈️ Fly home! Take time to rest & reminisce about your incredible trip! ☘️
Sláinte & Safe Travels!