The PERFECT 3 Days in Connemara, Ireland! 22 Top Attractions Laid Out Day by Day
Every stop in this Connemara plan is one I'd do again, laid out over three days from a bed in Clifden, with the swaps for rain, wind and a tide that won't cooperate. --- ✅ How to travel more and visit your dream destinations without breaking the bank: https://travelmorepayless.com Connemara Coastal kayaking: https://viator.tpo.lv/jY6Trtor Coasteering on Irelands Wild Atlantic Way: https://viator.tpo.lv/xLAO5H4I Oyster Farm and Tasting Experience: https://viator.tpo.lv/NQDSQRpa --- Day one stays on the coast south and west of Clifden. It starts at Dog's Bay, where the sand is mostly crushed shells and the water goes turquoise, with Gurteen Bay back to back on the other side. Then lunch in Roundstone and the bodhran workshop in the old monastery, the Derrigimlagh bog where Alcock and Brown came down in 1919 at the end of the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic, the walk out to Clifden Castle, and the Sky Road in the evening, clockwise on the upper road, when the cloud has usually lifted. Day two goes north. I'd be at Kylemore Abbey when it opens, and I'll tell you why the famous photo costs nothing and the walled garden is the real reason to buy a ticket. From there it's Diamond Hill in Connemara National Park, lunch at a pub in Tully Cross that used to double as the undertaker's, the Quiet Man beach at Lettergesh, a boat up Killary Harbour, and a pint in Leenane where The Field was shot. The drive home runs through the Inagh Valley past Pine Island at dusk, with Ballynahinch Castle as the dinner stop and the rain plan. Day three starts with the tide at Omey Island, which you can drive to across the sand when the water is out, or the ferry to Inishbofin if you'd rather spend the day at sea. Then two ways back to Galway, the quick road past Aughnanure Castle or the slow road through the Gaeltacht to Pearse's Cottage, Coral Strand and the sauna by Spiddal pier. There are more things to do in Connemara than three days can hold, and the one piece of advice I'd stand behind is to sleep out here rather than in Galway. If you know the area and there's a stop you'd swap in, tell me in the comments.