Launched in spring 2014, the Wild Atlantic Way is a 2,500 km coastal route that invites the visitor to explore Ireland’s dramatic western seaboard.
Flagged as ‘the world’s longest coastal drive’, thanks to the many headlands and inlets that beg to be investigated along the way, it aims to highlight the most dramatic landmarks and attractions while also making it easier to find the interesting little out of the way places that might otherwise be by-passed.
It can be joined at any point and is divided into five sections, the first being Donegal in the north, with the other four (Donegal-Mayo; Mayo-Clare; Clare-Kerry; Kerry-Cork) leading you right down the Atlantic seaboard to the southern counties of Cork and Kerry.
A simple route map is available on discoverireland.ie where full information on each section is given, including activities and key ‘discovery points’.
The very distinctive bright blue ‘wave’ road signs make it virtually impossible to get lost - and we have plenty of suggestions for the best places to eat, drink and stay along the way, many of which are run by people who know the west coast back to front and will help visitors to find a genuine sense of discovery along this beautiful and fascinating coastline.
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Annascaul, Co. Kerry
Meat & Game / Online Shop
Renowned for its smooth, dense texture, Annascaul Black Pudding has been made here by hand since Ashe's shop was established in 1916 - and today the Annascaul Black Pudding Co. is an artisan food production business run by a descendant of the original ...
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Midleton, Co. Cork
Fish Shop
Second generation husband and wife team, Adrian and Diane Walsh, manage this famous company.
Many products are made with fresh fish caught by their own boats; catches land into Ballycotton harbour and are then processed in the company facility in Garr ...
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Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
Classes/Courses / Farmgate / Fruit & Veg / Online Shop
Husband-and-wife team Padraig Fahy and Una Ní Bhroin run their renowned National Organic Demonstration Farm in a very open, visitor-friendly way and hold courses and farm walks several times a year; although mainly geared towards other growers, ...
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Cobh, Co. Cork
Fish & Seafood / Internet/Phone Mail Order / Online Shop / Producers Shop
This is Ireland’s oldest smokery and Frank Hederman's produce is internationally renowned.
Remarkably, it’s just one of a handful of authentic traditional timber smoke houses worldwide, with salt-cured fish being hung for smoking. ...
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Co. Cork, South West
Cheeses / Dairy / Online Shop
Charleville is famous for its mainstream cheese production but this is very different - Victor and Breda O'Sullivan's Bluebell Falls Goats Cheese is handmade daily, exclusively from their own milk.
Victor O’Sullivan was brought up with goats, an ...
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Cork City, Co. Cork
Baking/Bakery / Deli
Patrick O'Riordan and Ali Crowley's charming bakery and deli was one of the early trailblazers in the new wave of 'real' food in Ireland and, although it has recently had a major makeover, the site has a much longer baking history than you might think, ...
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Clare Island, Co. Mayo
Fish & Seafood
The great challenge, when facing the ever-growing threat to fish stocks in the wild, is to find ways of producing sustainable, high quality alternatives that will ease demand on threatened species and themselves be environmentally friendly. No easy tas ...
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Ballina, Co. Mayo
Fish & Seafood / Fish Shop / Food Market / Online Shop
Renowned throughout the North-West and beyond, 'Clarke's Master Fishmongers & Salmon Smokers since1945' has recently been transformed into Clarke's Seafood Delicatessen, a bright modern shop offering wines, Irish farmhouse cheeses and other special ...
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Connemara, Co. Galway
Internet/Phone Mail Order / Meat & Game / Online Shop
Born and bred on the beautiful hills of Connemara, Connemara Hill Lamb is a seasonal product. It has European Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) status and is one of only a handful of Irish products to have comparable recognition: the use of the n ...
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Macroom, Co. Cork
Cheeses / Farmshop / Producers Shop
Dick & Helene Willems began making cheese here in the Cork Gaeltacht in 1979, and their famous gouda style cheese is now made by their son Dicky.
Made with the pasteurised milk of a neighbouring herd, it is a typically smooth, dense-textured chees ...
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