Lynott Tours

Clare is the music centre of Ireland and on this tour you are sure to have your feet tapping to traditional tunes nearly every night of the week. The Burren region is also an amazing limestone moonscape, famous around the world for its wonderful variety of botany. The area is rich in ancient and early Christian historical sites and offers some beautiful coastal cycling overlooking Galway Bay. Finally Clare is home to the cliffs of Moher the highest marine based cliffs in Europe and one of the best known images of Ireland. 

Clare,otherwise known as the Banner Country is the music capital of Ireland, home of traditional Irish music and the world famous Kilfenora Ceili Band. It is also a limestone area with very unique flora and plants. In addition, the area is famous for its many burial tombs otherwise known as dolmens which are scattered throughout the county (Poulnabron being the most famous). The most spectacular sight in Clare is the Cliffs of Moher – which really is a sight to behold. Along the Clare coast are towns such as Liscanor and Lahinch, famous for great surfing and a world renowned championship golf course. Shannon Airport is in south Clare, and is less than 10 miles for Dromoland Castle – a great place to have a royal time especially on the last night of your vacation.

This tour should be called King of the Mountains as you will ride through the Magillycuddy Reeks, Irelands highest mountain range. You will enjoy spectacular scenery, lakes, rivers, and you will see and smell the wild gorse and purple heather. Leaving the Iveragh Peninsula behind, you will head north to ride around the Dingle peninsula. Dingle is another Irish speaking area and its famous landmarks are the Skelligs – a monastic settlement which resemble Beehive huts and which was recently the prop for Starwars movie, The Force Awakens. Dingle is another great place for music, song and dance.

Donegal is one of the undiscovered gems of Ireland. There is a wonderful mix of coastal cycling followed by a highland landscape where you can feel completely away from it all, before returning back to the coast and the most beautiful beaches in the country. The light is amazing here, with a landscape full of browns, greens and purples constantly altering their tone with the changing light. The pace of life is wonderfully easy going and the people amongst the most welcoming in the country.

Donegal, often overlooked, but never underestimated, has the best of everything Ireland has to offer. Wild scenery, warm locals, outdoor pursuits, top hospitality. And, you'll have the whole place to yourself. Some of the coastal towns that you will pass through on this ride are Donegal Glencolmcille, Dungloe, Dunfanaghy, Rathmelton. What makes Donegal extra special is that it is one of the biggest Irish speaking areas in Ireland and once you hear the lilt of the locals it will warm your heart and bring a smile to your face.

This Tour explores the beautiful region of Connemara famous for its rugged granite landscape as well as its beautiful lakes and rivers. The route offers an incredible variety of scenery each day. In the morning you can be cycling along beautiful coastline while in the afternoon you could be at a quiet bog road with stunning views of the surrounding mountains. On our rest day we stay in a lovely hotel in Clifden, the capital of Connemara. Our tour then takes along quite backroads through Connemara making our way to the Aran Islands, where we are staying on the main island of Inis Mor which we can explore in more detail. The tour finishes up in the city of Galway.

You’ll know you’re in Connemara when you enter a vast beautiful bog land, but as you ride along you’ll notice how the landscape becomes a mixture of rivers, lakes, woodlands, rich meadowlands, rugged hills, dramatic mountains and as you near the coast you’ll stumble across a stunning unpolluted coastline of sandy beaches and blue waters. The capital of Connemara is Clifden which is a typical Irish town with quirky shops, restaurants and traditional pubs. Just a few miles away is Connemara’s famous landmark, Kylemore Abbey. Other towns en route are Clonbur, Westport and Leenane and saving the best for last, The Aran Islands.

This tour should be called King of the Mountains as you will ride through the Magillycuddy Reeks, Irelands highest mountain range. You will enjoy spectacular scenery, lakes, rivers, and you will see and smell the wild gorse and purple heather. Leaving the Iveragh Peninsula behind, you will head north to ride around the Dingle peninsula. Dingle is another Irish speaking area and its famous landmarks are the Skelligs – a monastic settlement which resemble Beehive huts and which was recently the prop for Starwars movie, The Force Awakens. Dingle is another great place for music, song and dance.

The Ring of Kerry is famous throughout the world for its spectacular scenery. While the main roads can be busy, we avoid the traffic by taking some hillier options that crisscross these two dramatic peninsulas.

From 5000 year old the burial chambers at Newgrange to the mansions built in the Celtic Tiger era. Newgrange is a prehistoric burial ground about 40 miles from Dublin City. It is also not far from the Boyne Valley and the Hill of Tara, which is steeped in Irish history and once the home of the High King of Ireland – Brian Boru. Along the eastern coast, you will pass Carlingford Lough – a town famous for its music and annual oyster festival.

The route takes you out of Dublin on quiet back roads through the farm lands that feeds the city to the beautiful and historic Boyne Valley. On roads undiscovered by tourists the route heads north through the spectacular Cooley Mountains to the medieval town of Carlingford. Returning to Dublin through the rich pasture lands of Meath and Kildare the route passes the ancient seat of the High Kings of Ireland at Tara.

This tour offers you some of the most spectacular coastal scenery in the country, with cliffs and rolling green fields sweeping down towards the Irish Sea along a coastline dotted with ancient forts and castles. We also cycle inland up into the famous Glens of Antrim with some wonderful highland cycling on quiet backroads. Finally you visit Bushmills the oldest licensed whiskey distillery in the world and finish off the week with a visit to the Giants Causeway , the most famous landmark in Northern Ireland with its amazing basalt rock formations.

The Antrim Coast is Northern Irelands best kept secret and is where the green glens of Antrim roll down to the sea. Watch out for Dunluce Castle, Carrick a Rede Rope Bridge, Giants Causeway and to quench your thirst, stop off at Bushmills for a wee dram or two. For all those Game of Thrones fans, you will get to ride by the Dark Hedges. So much to see, so little time.

This tour covers some of the most spectacular scenery that Ireland has to offer. Shortly after leaving Killarney you will find yourself cycling between the majestic lakes that have made this area so famous to be shortly followed by a climb up to Molls gap with its wonderful views of the Macgillycuddyreeks, Ireland's highest mountain range. The rest of the week involves more of the same stunning scenery with a wonderful coastal cycle along Kenmare Bay and the twisted mountains of the Beara Peninsula. We are staying on the beautiful Beara Peninsula in the colourful towns of Castletownbere and Glengarriff. Towards the end of the week we head inland and stay at a beautiful Lakeside retreat of Gougane Barra at the source of the River Lee. On the final day we cycle up over the wild and isolated hills of the Coolea region before returning to Killarney. 

This tour departs from Killarney a bustling town, famous for its wonderful hospitality and the ever presence of the jarvies and their jaunting cars. Killarney is surrounded by magnificent scenery which includes lakes, mountains, and the wild Atlantic Ocean. This particular ride goes right around the ring of Kerry or the Iveragh Peninsula – starting and ending in Killarney. It is indeed a hilly ride but there is no hurry – slow and steady is the order of the day and you can reward yourself at the end with some well-deserved local beverages at one of the many pubs in the town.

Quiet roads lined with wild, deeply scented flowers, this tour covers all types of landscape, from rolling green fields to spectacular coastal rides. West Cork is also best known for its colourful villages all of which are brightly painted in a wonderful array of vibrant colours, with wonderful hanging baskets brimming with flowers out the front of every pub and shop. This is the more cosmopolitan part of rural Ireland with many choosing to settle in this idyllic setting. This tour finishes in the colourful town of Kinsale, easily accessible to Cork Airport and city. 

The West Cork Coastline could be considered Ireland’s Riviera. The rolling hills and countryside and the coastline dotted with little towns and villages which are brightly painted make this a very scenic and enjoyable ride. Look out for Gougane Barra a monastic site dating back to the 6th Century. Also, Ahakista and Baltimore are very picturesque harbor towns and Kinsale, just 18 miles from Cork city, a food lovers paradise and the gourmet capital of Ireland.

As with our Connemara tour it starts and finishes in Galway, takes in the stunning Killary Harbour, Dephi Valley and Westport town. However from Westport we head North to the remote beauty of Achill Island along a wonderful dedicated 47km cycle route. The tour finishes up in the wonderful Country Life Museum near Castlebar before taking a transfer back to Galway. The distance on this tour is low and is perfect for a couple where one would rather cycle more than another as this can be easily accommodated. 

The Best of the West begins and ends in Galway City. Affectionately known as the City of the Tribes, Galway is a University town, full of life and color. It is also small enough to get around on foot. Galway is renowned for it’s of great pubs, restaurants, and live music around every corner. After leaving Galway, the tour continues out to Killary Harbor (Ireland’s only fjord), and from there to the Heritage town of Westport, Co Mayo. Westport is another great town on the Wild Atlantic Way which also has great music, pubs and restaurants.

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The Mayo Tour is like stepping back 20 years in time to an Ireland before the Celtic Tiger!. It is the quietest of our routes in terms of traffic and offers up a wild windswept landscape full of changing light. You will get to visit the largest Stone Age site in Europe, an ancient cattle field system and also spend your rest day on Achill Island with its wonderful mountains and white sandy beaches as well as its breathtaking cliff walks. This is also the country of Grainnuiale, a famous female pirate in the 16th Century whose ships attacked fleets all along the coastline and we visit one of her fortress houses. The last day of our cycle takes us along the Achill -Westport Greenway. A newly opened dedicated cycle route along an old railway line, one of the most cycled paths in the country since it was opened and a real highlight to finish the tour. 

Westport is a heritage town in Co Mayo and is a great place to visit any day of the year. A colorful town with great bars, restaurants and music. Looming over the town is Croagh Patrick – Irelands holy mountain and where on the last Sunday in July, every year, pilgrims climb the Reek (Croagh Patrick). Climbing enthusiasts can climb the mountain anytime they wish. Also in the area is the town of Knock which is famous for its Marian Shrine. The Ceide Fields (less than 50 miles from Westport) and which is older than the pyramids is also worth a visit and a rare treat for those interested in archaeology. Less ancient and worthwhile places to visit in the area is the village of Cong (film set for John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara’s Quiet Man) and the esteemed Ashford Castle which is another old-world treasure.