Ireland Circuit In A Week's Time

I much prefer the south west area of the waw so here are "just a few" of my suggestions , although based on your post you maybe pushed for time

All 3 beara penisulas
Priest Leap, start at the Ballylickey end
Allihies loop in copper mine addition
Lambs head
Mizen head
The black valley from molls gap
Ballagbeama Gap Pass
Ballaghisheen Pass
Gap of dunloe ( in summer get there before 10am)
Caha Pass
Ballinskelligs to portmagge waw extension
The ring of kerry is great in early spring or late autumn but too many coaches in summer. Much better to go rural and look to the roads through the centre of the ring
Steer clear of going through Killarney at mid day
Dublin centre traffic is a nightmare most times of the day , hundreds of traffic lights which stay red forever. If your b and b is on the west outskirts, use the tunnel direct from dublin port. Its 10 euro well spent

I tend to stay in a great little town called Kenmare for 4 nights and just go out all day exploring and come back to kenmare

If anyone else is planning a WAW trip and need any more info on the south west , send me a message and i can forward maps etc

ps, none of the above suitable for Panigale !!

 

Sorry to be pedantic @mikeybikey but for anyone else reading it’s the Sheep’s Head peninsula not Lambs Head, you’ll not find the latter in any satnav/Google/Waze

 

See attached photo , lambs head is on the adjacent peninsula next to Dursey , however i have been there many times and its never clicked that there was sheeps head and lambs head ! Sub consciously thought they were the same

 

To be honest you both sound a bit woolly about this.

 

Your post with a 10:00am cutoff caught me out so I thought from my posting stating 11:00am.

Just checked my photographs from last year and I stopped at 10:30am at the Coffee store, when I reached the bottom the horses were just starting to set off?

 

I stand corrected, I didn’t know that townland was called Lambs Head. It’s a bit of a dead end track though, just serves the 2 farms there.

 

Westport to Listowel will be a long riding day. If your route takes you to Galway, the roads approaching the city are very suburban with lower speed limits. You may choose to ride through the city, which will be busy, or to take the ring-road to avoid the worst of it. If you are following the WAW. the ring-road finishes at Oranmore and then on to Clarinbridge and Kilcolgan. Turn right here onto the N67 towards Kinvara and Ballyvaughan. The road between Kinvara and Ballyvaughan has some twists and turns which reward care and attention as opposed to maximum attack. At Ballyvaughan, there is a T-junction; turning right will take you on the coast road towards Black Head, Fanore and ultimately to Lisdoonvarna and Ennistymon. Turning left will also bring you to Lisdoonvarna and Ennistymon, but you will climb Corkscrew Hill, a sequence of uphill hairpin bends. If your riding party is not confident with this, then take the coast road. Further south, there is a ferry service crossing the River Shannon to Tarbert which would mean avoiding Limerick.
Hope you enjoy the trip. It is a great country to explore on a motorbike.