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Twenty trips people actually take, from a two-day run at the Giant's Causeway to a fortnight across both coasts. Every stop links straight through to the local guide, and every drive time is an honest estimate rather than a motorway calculation.
Wild Atlantic Way
Kinsale to Malin Head — the Republic's Atlantic coast.
5 days · Kilkee → Aran Islands
5 days from Shannon
Shannon puts you within an hour of the best of the Clare coast, so this one stays tight and heads north rather than doubling back. Short drives, big cliffs, Galway on day four and the ferry out to the Arans to finish.
10 days · Kilkee → Malin Head
10 days from Shannon
Ten days is enough to run the whole northern half properly — Clare to Malin Head — without a single day that feels like a transfer. This is the trip most people wish they'd booked.
7 days · Galway City → Donegal Town & Slieve League
7 days from Dublin
Dublin is on the wrong coast, so the first move is a two-and-a-half hour run west to Galway — do it early and don't count it as a day. From there the coast does the work.
5 days · Kinsale → Dingle Peninsula
5 days from Cork
The official start of the Wild Atlantic Way is half an hour from Cork Airport, which makes this the easiest first day on the whole route. Five days gets you comfortably to Dingle.
7 days · Kinsale → Cliffs of Moher & Doolin
7 days from Cork
Seven days from Cork covers the two peninsulas everyone comes for and still leaves you at the Cliffs of Moher at the end. It's the classic southern run.
3 days · Galway City → Westport
3 days from Galway
Three days is a long weekend, so this one stays north of Galway and keeps the driving under two hours a day. Connemara is the whole point of it.
5 days · Fanad & Inishowen → Sligo & Strandhill
5 days from Derry
Derry sits right on the handshake between the two routes, which makes it the best-value start on the island. Head south-west and you're into Donegal within the hour.
10 days · Kinsale → Malin Head
10 days: the full Wild Atlantic Way
2,500 km in ten days means roughly 250 km a day, and that is a real pace — this itinerary keeps the essentials and is honest about what gets left out. Twelve days is better if you have them.
14 days · Kinsale → Malin Head
14 days: the unhurried Wild Atlantic Way
Fourteen days is the length the route was really built for: you get the islands, the peninsulas and the detours, and you never have to drive through somewhere you wanted to see.
4 days · Kenmare → Tralee & North Kerry
4 days in Kerry
Doing both peninsulas in four days works, but only in this order: Ring of Kerry first while you're fresh, Dingle second because you'll want longer there than you planned.
4 days · Kinsale → Mizen Head
4 days in West Cork
West Cork is the quietest stretch of the whole route and the easiest to underestimate. Four days, no drive over ninety minutes, and the south-west corner of Ireland at the end.
4 days · Loop Head → The Burren
4 days on the Clare coast
Clare packs more into eighty kilometres than anywhere else on the route. Four days here means you can walk the cliffs instead of photographing them from the car park.
7 days · Galway City → Ballina & North Mayo
7 days: Connemara and Mayo
This is the emptiest and, for a lot of people, the best week on the Wild Atlantic Way. Achill and north Mayo see a fraction of the traffic Kerry does.
7 days · Donegal Town & Slieve League → Malin Head
7 days in Donegal
Donegal is a third of the Wild Atlantic Way's coastline and the part most itineraries rush. Give it a week and it becomes the trip rather than the tail end of one.
Causeway Coastal Route
Belfast to Derry — the Antrim and Causeway coast.
3 days · Derry / Londonderry → Belfast
A long weekend on the Causeway Coast
Three days is genuinely enough for the Causeway Coast — it's under 200 km end to end. The trick is starting in Derry and ending in Belfast rather than doubling back.
5 days · Belfast → Derry / Londonderry
5 days on the Causeway Coastal Route
Run it out of Belfast and the coast opens up gradually: castles first, then the glens, then the basalt. Five days means you can take the Rathlin ferry without wrecking the schedule.
2 days · Portrush & Portstewart → Carrick-a-Rede & Ballintoy
2 days at the Giant's Causeway
Two days is the shortest trip on this site and it still works, because everything sits within twenty minutes of everything else. Base yourself in Portrush or Bushmills.
Both coasts
Trips that cross the Foyle and run the two named routes together.
14 days · Kinsale → Belfast
14 days: both coasts, Kinsale to Belfast
The two routes join at the Foyle, and doing them back to back is the single best fortnight of driving on the island. Expect a currency change, a speed-limit change, and no border formalities at all.
12 days · Kinsale → Derry / Londonderry
12 days: Kinsale to Derry
Finishing in Derry rather than Malin Head makes the flights easier and sets you up for the Causeway Coast if you ever come back. Twelve days is a comfortable pace for the full route.
7 days · Belfast → Donegal Town & Slieve League
7 days from Belfast
Belfast to Donegal in a week gives you both routes at their best ends. The border crossing is invisible — the only things that change are the currency and the speed signs.
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