#57 of 79 · coastal
Ring of Kerry
Killarney, County Kerry → Killarney, County Kerry
179 km · May – Sep · Easy
N70 around the Iveragh Peninsula. Lakes, a bog, Atlantic inlets, and a coach convoy if you start late. Ireland’s famous loop — still worth it if you leave at seven.
Viewpoints
Ladies View
The lakes. Early, or you will queue for the lay-by.
18 km
130 m
Moll’s Gap
The first real height. Then the peninsula opens.
25 km
260 m
Waterville
Charlie Chaplin’s village, a beach, a turn. The Skelligs if the cloud lifts.
95 km
10 m
- Road
- Mostly good N-roads, tight in the villages, coaches on the clock. Sheep. Rain in any month. Anticlockwise puts you against the buses.
Tips
- 01
Anticlockwise, and early
The coaches run clockwise from nine. Be past Moll’s Gap before they are.
- 02
This is a day
Do not add the Skellig boat and the Gap of Dunloe. The ring is enough.
From the road
2 notes
Field reports from people who have driven this route.
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Siobhán C.
Jun 2025
Left Killarney at 6:50, anticlockwise. Ladies View empty. Coaches started at Moll’s Gap as we left it. That is the whole trick.
Padraig D.
Sep 2025
Waterville in rain, Skelligs a rumour. The ring is a day. I added Dunloe and lost the light. Don’t.
