Would be grateful for advice on Southern Ireland

[Captain Lloyd]

I’ve never been to Southern Ireland before I’m going in June taking my 8m Motorhome crossing Pembroke to Rosslare, would be very grateful for any advice about travelling the their roads and good sites to stay.

 

[David and Sally]

I can’t help with sites. But get past Cork and the scenery is amazing. Travel the south and south west coast into West Cork, County Kerry , Limerick. Just stunning.
The people are friendly, enjoy a laugh and love their beer and music.

Enjoy.

 

[Stealaway]

I’ve never been to Southern Ireland before I’m going in June taking my 8m Motorhome crossing Pembroke to Rosslare, would be very grateful for any advice about travelling the their roads and good sites to stay.

Lots of free overnight stopover in the south and lots by the sea and harbours. We toured down the east coast to Wexford, along the south and west as far north as Galway.
We returned via the motorway to Dublin but don't forget to pay for the toll.
All good but Galway town was a real highlight.
The south is far busier than I imagined but still very good.
We are back again for three weeks after eight years in June. From Liverpool - as long as P&O are still in business

 

[TDub49]

Just got back from Ireland and doing a bit of the South around Dublin and the North round the Giant's Causeway. The motorways are fine, if a little boring like most motorways, but around Dublin (and Belfast) not only are they very busy, but in Dublin they have a "secret" toll system on the M50 that you need to watch out for - https://www.tii.ie/roads-tolling/to...cations-and-charges/m50-barrier-free-tolling/ Some bridges and other sections of motorway are also toll roads but have the normal payment barriers.

 

[Winger]

I suggest you get the Motorhome Parking Ireland app to make life easier for yourself.
Galway used to be good but Motorhome parking in the harbour has been banned and the last I heard they were banning the buskers off the street which really is the focal point of the city centre, but still a lovely place

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[two]

Traffic is/was light. You may meet horse-drawn vehicles. Remember that they drive on the other side in France but, in Ireland, they drive down the middle. Take your time and go slow. It's a different pace of life.

 

[TerryL]

Going out next week for our third visit. Not really done the south and east (it's on the radar for this trip), we did the Wild Atlantic Way over two visits of three weeks each. That will tell you that the roads can be slow and in places, especially on the WAW, very narrow but traffic away from the cities and most popular areas is very light. No problems with our 7m (which with the rack became 8m) m/h. The people are very friendly and almost everyone we met did their best to be as helpful as possible. The Tourist Information Offices are excellent (if you can find one open) and have tons of info which tells me they are paid by the weight of stuff they give you!

Campsites are not as widespread as in the UK but there are plenty of places you can park up for free overnight, although we did notice in the south a preponderance of height barriers. The app already mentioned helps.

However just remember that you don't go to Ireland for the warm dry weather; although we did have some really excellent days we had an equal number of not so good. But the stunning scenery on the west coast more than made up for it.

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[aria]

The ‘motorhome parking Ireland’ app and Motorhomecraic website will be very useful.

Most roads are pretty good these days but on rural roads they can sometimes get very bad with very little notice so watch your speed or you could find yourself launched into the air over a hidden dip.
There are no separate speed limits for MH in Ireland, regardless of weight. Caravan club, RAC etc. quote goods vehicle limits which are incorrect. I have always stayed at the same limits as UK (I’m nearly 5T) and never had any problem going through speed checks over the last 6 yrs.

More and more aire style parking spots are opening up.
Sites in my experience can be a complete ripoff. I try to avoid as far as possible.

Rubbish disposal is difficult. Rubbish collection is privatised so all public bins are small with tiny openings to stop folk putting household rubbish in. A good number of petrol stations have ‘pay per use’ compactors or recycling centres sometimes also take landfill rubbish. About £7 for a normal sized black bag.

Laundry is easy with self service machines.

The M50 is barrier free, but I think ‘secret’ is overdoing it a bit!

 

[meanders]

We note many more Irish Britstops than when we last went 6 or 7 years ago.

Lovely country and lovely people. We did end up moving in the middle of the night from Ross Castle car park after a while van arrived with no lights and two males got out with bolt croppers. We moved before they could have the bikes off the rack.

To be fair, have had similar incidents in the UK and France. Bar stewards live everywhere.