Day 1 - Bunratty Castle

The powerful MacNamara family built the present structure around 1425 but by 1475 it had became the stronghold of the O'Briens, the largest clan in North Munster.

Day 2 - Clonmacnoise

Ireland's Early Christian Monastic Settlement

Day 3 - Aughnanure Castle

A 16th century tower house in Oughterard, County Galway

Day 3 - Drive to Clifden

Day 3 - Kylemore Abbey

Kylemore Abbey is a Benedictine nunnery founded in 1920 in Connemara, County Galway, Ireland.

Day 3 - Sky Road, Clifden

An 11-km drive with views of the Atlantic, Clifden Castle, coast-guard station, the islands of Inishturk and Turbot and the town

Day 4 - Westport and Lenaun

Westport is a sea-port in Mayo County in northwest Ireland. We were stranded in Westport for a day, since our rental car's transmission broke around the town of Lenaun.

Day 5 - Adare, Quinn, Dongory, and Newtown Castle

We stopped at quite a few castles on our way down to County Kerry from Galway.

Day 5 - Cliffs of Moher

These cliffs rise 120 m above the Atlantic Ocean

Day 5 - Gleninagh Castle

A 16th century tower house in Country Clare

Day 6 - Ballycarbery Castle

Rachel's favorite castle in Ireland: The ruin of this once magnificent 15th-century castle majestically faces the sea.

Day 6 - Skellig Ring

A magnificent scenic drive off the Ring of Kerry

Day 6 and Day 7 - Ring of Kerry

170 km tourist trail in County Kerry

Day 7 - Cahir Castle

One of the largest castles in Ireland, was built in County Tipperary in 1142 by Conor O'Brien

Day 7 - Kanturk Castle

Day 7 - Ross Castle

Ancestral home of the O'Donoghue clan

Day 8 - Rock of Cashel

Traditional seat of the Kings of Munster