Customised private tours of Southern and West Ireland are available with Drive Exec. Explore Ireland with your own personal guide at your leisure by tailoring the tours itinerary to your interests. Each tour is custom designed and flexible to suit our clients. Most of our customised tours are arranged for business visitors and small groups of 4 or less, to ensure a personalised service throughout your visit.
Blarney Castle and Woollen Mills;
Kiss the Blarney stone to acquire “the gift of the gab” and afterwards visit the woollen mills to select authentic high quality handcrafted knits and woven gifts for your family.
Cobh Harbour (Queenstown);
originally named to commemorate Queen Victoria’s visit in 1849. Visit St Coleman’s Cathedral and the heritage centre and experience the feelings of the millions of Irish emigrants who departed for the new world.
Kinsale and Charles Fort;
The gourmet’s dream. Kinsale has many offerings of superior dining experiences against a backdrop of sailboats bobbing in the water. For the history buff: wander through Irish history amidst the ruins of this substantial Fort, located on a spectacular coastal promontory. Charles Fort in now a curated museum with many onsite guides to bring you the insider’s knowledge.
Cork City;
St FinBarre's Cathedral. See the majestic spires and also the golden angel overlooking the city, a gift from the designer of the cathedral, William Burges.
Located in the same neighbourhood, University College Cork, where you can visit the quadrangle designed by Sir Thomas Deane and opened in 1849 as Queens College Cork - host to almost 30,000 students.
Lakes Of Killarney;
With its spectacular scenery, unusually mild climate and rapid changes in light and weather, this is a bewitching place of intense beauty. Ireland’s highest mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, raise a jagged edge to the sky while at their feet rest three still lakes, studded with little islands, set among forests and lush glens thick with grand trees, wild fuchsias and scented orchids. The stillness can be almost eerie.
Waterford Crystal;
The Waterford Crystal story first begins in 1783 when George and William Penrose founded their crystal manufacturing business in the busy port of Waterford. They seized on the opportunity to produce “plain and cut flint glass, useful and ornamental” in their factory, which was situated in the heart of Waterford city.
It was the enterprise and skill of these founders and their successors, which had such an impact for generations to come on the appreciation of glass, which is stronger today than when they began two centuries ago.
Cliffs of Moher;
The Cliffs are one of Ireland's top visitor attractions. The cliffs are 214m high at the highest point and range for 8 kilometres over the Atlantic Ocean on the western seaboard of County Clare. O'Brien's Tower stands proudly on a headland of the majestic cliffs. From the cliffs one can see the Aran Islands and Galway Bay, as well as The Twelve Pins, the Maum Turk Mountains in Connemara and Loop Head to the South.
