Day Tour of Wicklow - Powerscourt and Glendalough
This is a day tour from Dublin of Wicklow including the Powerscourt Gardens, Wicklow Mountains National Park and Glendalough with activity options of a guided walk or Horse riding. Operates daily from Dublin city center. The tour is a mix of activities, folklore and scenic sights of Wicklow, Suitable for all ages as the activities are optional. Visit for more information.
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A Full Moon Walk in Wicklow Ireland
A guided full moon walk in Wicklow Ireland with Hilltoptreks.
Fantastic clear night and a great group out....beautiful sun set and the moon The Honey Moon this time of year was almost red in colour...
These Full Moon Walks are an excellent opportunity to see beautiful landscape by the light of the moon.The walks will be short 2-3 hr walks starting at 6pm in the evening.
The walk is approx 3 hrs and starts later in the summer.
You will visit some of the most scenic parts of Ireland including Wicklow and its national park, Glendalough, Luggala, Djouce and many more. If you have never had the opportunity to do this here is your chance.
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Great day tours of Wicklow from Dublin Ireland.
Visiting Glendalough, Powerscourt gardens, Enniskerry, the Wicklow Mountains national park, Options for Hill Walking, Horse riding or mountain biking, Visit for more info.
Glendalough - Spinc and Glenealo Valley (Wicklow Mountains)
Glendalough - Spinc and Glenealo Valley
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Wicklow Day Tour
Fully Guided Day Tour of Wicklow from Dublin with activity options. Visiting Glendalough, Powerscourt Gardens, The Sally Gap, Lough Tay, Guinness Estate, Wicklow Mountains National Park with scenic stops along the way and walking or horse riding options.
This tour leaves from Dublin daily and you can book it here hilltoptreks.com
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Day Tour of Wicklow with Guided Walk Option
From our day tour of Wicklow you can choose to enjoy a 1.5hr guided walk in Wicklow. The walk will bring you through typical Irish farm land, a wonderful mixed woodland on a nice trail. The up onto Carrickgollogan hill with vistas across some of Ireland's Coastline of Dublin and Wicklow. The walk is of an easy pace and suitable to most fitness levels.
Its a great way to really get into some of Ireland's wonderful nature.
Arthur (Guinness) Way - with Hilltoptreks
On this tour and walk you are brought through the life and times of Arthur Guinness, who brought us the famous black stuff.
Starting from his graveside in Oughterard we follow his family background and history as we make our back through his life while taking in some wonderful scenery. We follow the Grand Canal which the Guinness family helped to finance and stop for a break at Cliffs at Lyons, beautiful place and definitely a great tea or coffee stop...might even get half a scone.... anyway from here we make our way towards the Hazel hatch pub and on towards Celbridge his birth place, where you can pull your very own pint of Guinness where Arthur was born.
The tour continues onto Castletown house, (Largest Palladian country house in Ireland and was built in 1722 for William Conolly, the Speaker of the Irish House of Commons) This is where a young
Arthur spent much of his youth.
Guinness's godfather Arthur Price, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel, bequeathed him £100 in his will. Guinness invested the money and in 1755 had a brewery at Leixlip.
In 1761 he married Olivia Whitmore in St. Mary's Church, Dublin, and they had 21 children, 10 of whom lived to adulthood. Olivia's father was William Whitmore, a grocer in Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin, and her mother was Mary Grattan from Drummin House, Carbury, County Kildare. Olivia also brought a dowry of £1,000.
He died in Dublin and was buried in his mother's family plot at Oughterard, County Kildare in January 1803.
Day Tour of Wicklow, with Horse Riding
From our Day Tour of Wicklow you can choose to go horse riding for approx 1.5hrs. The horse riding is suitable for all experience levels and there are great guides to assist you. Your boots, helmet and of course your horse are covered in the cost.
Its a great way to get into the Irish countryside and explore where no other tours can go.
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Lough Tay and Luggala in county Wicklow. Group walk in Aug 2017 taking in the Guinness estate in Luggala
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Pictures taken of various locations in Ireland while walking.
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Lough Dan - Wicklow - Panoramas
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Day Tour of Wicklow
Day Tour Of Wicklow
Includes Glendalough and Powerscourt
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You will have the option to leave this tour bus and get out into the Irish Country side to enjoy some Hill Walking, Horse Riding or Cycling.
If you don't want to do any activity you can visit The Powerscourt Gardens.
This Tour has been awarded A Certificate of Excellence from Trip Advisor and Ranks in the Top 5 Tours from Dublin.
About The tour:
The tour leaves from Dublin and drives to Enniskerry in Co. Wicklow. We will stop here for a look about this beautiful Victorian Village and get ready for your chosen activity. You have the option to Visit the Powerscourt Gardens in Enniskerry if not doing any activity.
After your activity we will continue on the tour. We will drive through the valleys, glens and wonderful landscape of County Wicklow with stops along the way to take some great Photographs.
You will be Visiting Enniskerry (Film location of P.S. I Love You), Powerscourt Waterfall, Lough Tay, Glenmacnass (Film Location of Brave Heart), Sally Gap and Glendalough (Valley of the two lakes).
About the Activities:
The activities are approx 2 hrs in length and suitable from beginners to the more experienced with great guides to assist you.
All the equipment is provided for the Cycling and horse riding.
All the guides are very friendly and full of local history of the areas visited.
31st December 1759: Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease for St. James's Gate Brewery
Arthur Guinness was the son of the land steward to the Reverend Arthur Price, the Archbishop of Cashel. In 1755 he began brewing ale in Leixlip in County Kildare approximately 17 km north of Dublin. Four years later, at the age of 34, he negotiated with the descendants of Sir Mark Rainsford, the former Lord Mayor of Dublin, to rent the abandoned 4-acre site of the St. James’s Gate Brewery in Dublin at £45 per annum.
Much is often made of the lease lasting for an incredible 9,000 years. However long leases were reasonably common at the time to avoid full transfer of the freehold, since questions over land ownership posed serious political and social questions.
Having replaced the existing brewing equipment Arthur Guinness initially continued to produce ale at the new site, and within a decade had built a thriving export business shipping his beer to England. However, the business really began to flourish following the decision to begin brewing porter in 1778. Its popularity prompted Guinness to make the decision in 1799 to focus exclusively on darker beers. This set the business on the road to developing the signature stout with which the name is now most commonly associated.
Arthur Guinness died in 1803, by which time the brewery was producing over 20,000 barrels a year. The business then passed to his son, Arthur Guinness II, under whose control it continued to expand. In 1838 the St. James’s Gate Brewery became the largest in Ireland in terms out of output, while it began to expand beyond the original 4-acre site. However, the original lease stayed in place until the 1980s when it was eventually bought out for an undisclosed sum.