Some day trips repay the early train. Plenty don't. These 6 day trips from Galway are the ones that earn the hours, and each comes with an honest note on what you're really getting.
Book a TripAran Islands (Inis Mór)From €35The largest of the three Aran Islands, Inis Mor is a windswept limestone outpost where Irish is still the everyday language and dry-stone walls crisscross the fields. Directions
Book a TripConnemara National ParkFrom €35Wild, boggy and strikingly beautiful, Connemara National Park protects a sweep of mountains, heath and lakes about an hour and a quarter north-west of Galway by tour bus. Directions
Book a TripKylemore Abbey€18Set against a wooded hillside and mirrored in a still lake, Kylemore Abbey is one of the most photographed sights in the west of Ireland, roughly an hour and a quarter from Galway by tour bus through Connemara. Directions
Book a TripThe BurrenFrom €35The Burren is a vast, otherworldly limestone landscape in County Clare, about an hour south of Galway by tour bus, where bare grey rock stretches to the horizon and rare Arctic and Mediterranean wildflowers grow side by side in… Directions
Dunguaire Castle & Kinvara€8Perched on a rocky outcrop above Galway Bay, the compact 16th-century Dunguaire Castle is one of Ireland's most picturesque tower houses, only about thirty-five minutes south of Galway by bus near the pretty harbour village of… Directions
Book a TripCliffs of MoherFrom €35Rising more than 200 metres straight out of the Atlantic, the Cliffs of Moher are Ireland's most famous stretch of coastline and an easy full-day trip from Galway, about ninety minutes away by tour bus through County Clare. Directions
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