Seven hundred-foot cliffs over the Atlantic, castles with folk parks attached, and a capital small enough to walk — in English, which makes it an easy first Europe.
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Ages 6-12 · 4D3N · 14 things to do
A small walkable capital with a thousand-year-old illuminated manuscript, a tall ship you climb aboard, and the Wicklow mountains forty minutes south.
The Temple Bar area is a drinking quarter and is loud and unpleasant from late afternoon. Stay elsewhere and visit it by day if at all.
Add DublinAges 7-12 · 5D4N · 6 things to do
The Cliffs of Moher, the limestone desert of the Burren, Connemara's mountains, and a castle with a working folk park in the grounds.
The cliff edge is unfenced along much of its length and the wind there is genuinely strong enough to move a child. Stay on the marked path.
Add Galway and the WestWhen to go. May, June and September for the longest days and the least rain. July and August are busiest. It rains in every month, so plan around it rather than for it.
Choose where you are staying, then pick from what is reachable from there and the app builds a day-by-day plan around it.
17 hrs · flight with one stop · Ages 6-12 · 4D3N · 14 things to do. A small walkable capital with a thousand-year-old illuminated manuscript, a tall ship you climb aboard, and the Wicklow mountains forty minutes south.
Ages 8-12
A ninth-century illuminated gospel and the Long Room library above it. Ninety-two dollars guided with the castle.
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Twenty galleries on why ten million people left and where they went. Twenty-six dollars, entirely interactive, and repeatedly voted Europe's best attraction.
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A replica famine ship on the Liffey, with the story told by guides in the hold where people crossed. Nineteen dollars.
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Fourteen dollars, with a medieval crypt and a mummified cat and rat found in the organ pipes. Children want the cat.
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Thirteen dollars, and Jonathan Swift was dean here. The largest church in the country.
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Nineteen dollars, in a Georgian house, and much livelier than it sounds. Good for a reading child.
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Live traditional music and dancing with an optional dinner, forty-one dollars. The family version of a session.
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A working thoroughbred farm with foals in spring and a Japanese garden. Twenty-four dollars, an hour west.
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Irish writers, a children's fantasy floor and a science zone. Twenty-two dollars.
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Forty-one dollars. Dublin is walkable but this reaches the Guinness end and the park.
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A list of the city's attractions on one ticket. Worth the arithmetic on a three-day stay.
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A monastic valley in the mountains, plus working sheepdogs. Fifty-eight dollars and the best day trip from Dublin.
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A medieval city with a castle, plus the Wicklow valley. Forty-four dollars.
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Basalt columns and the Dark Hedges, crossing into Northern Ireland for the day. Eighty-seven dollars and a very long one.
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Book on Klook2.5 hrs · train from Dublin · Ages 7-12 · 5D4N · 6 things to do. The Cliffs of Moher, the limestone desert of the Burren, Connemara's mountains, and a castle with a working folk park in the grounds.
Ages 4-12
A fifteenth-century castle with a whole reconstructed village around it — cottages, a school, animals. Twenty-two dollars and the best-value family day in Ireland.
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The short version — half a day and fifty-eight dollars. Seven hundred feet of cliff and an unfenced edge.
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The cliffs plus the limestone pavement of the Burren, which looks like nowhere else in Europe. Eighty-two dollars.
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Mountains, bogland and an abbey on a lake, with a walk up Diamond Hill. Sixty-four dollars.
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A hundred and eighty kilometres round the peninsula, from Cork. Sixty-nine dollars and mostly a day in a coach for the view.
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Quieter and prettier than the Ring of Kerry, from Killarney. Fifty-two dollars.
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| Entry | No visa for Singapore passport holders for short stays. Ireland is not in the Schengen area and does not use the UK ETA either — it has its own rules. |
| Time | Seven or eight hours behind Singapore depending on the season. |
| Money | Euro in the Republic; Northern Ireland uses pounds. The Giant's Causeway day trip from Dublin crosses that border. |
| Weather | Four seasons in a day is not a joke here. Waterproofs and layers, and never plan a cliff day without a fallback. |
| Getting around | Trains link the cities but the west needs a car or a coach tour. Driving is on the left and the rural roads are narrow. |
| Cliffs of Moher | There are no barriers along much of the cliff edge and people die there. Stay on the marked paths with children and hold hands near the top. |
| Pubs | Children are generally welcome in pubs until early evening and the music sessions start late. The family version is the afternoon. |
| Water | Tap water is safe. |
