If you don't get into the black valley your missing out




Hit Tralee, drive the Connor pass toward dingle. Head out of dingle for ventry, drive slea head. Stop at tig aine just after the blasket Island in dun chaoin. Through ballyferriter and loop back to dingle. Head for Killarney via inch. When you reach Killarney at the golden nugget turn right, then left for Kate Kearney cottage ( valley). Drive through the valley, at 15mph and leave room for the horse and carts. When you reach the top turn left for molls gap, ladies view, torc waterfall, muckross house. Enter the town past Gleneagle, after the Nissan dealers turn left at lights for Ross castle. If you've time take a row boat out onto the lake, if not get on one of the tour boats and go for a walk out on the island in middle. Can't remember the name of it.

Back up to molls gap, left for kenmare. When in Kenmare head for castletownbere ( don't go all the way but drive some of the peninsula. Kenmare out to county bounds ( kilgarvan) back into Killarney in 25 mins.

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