Tours of the 32 Counties
Custom tour itinerary · any county
- All tours include detailed itineraries, insider tips, and local contact info
€25
Since 2010
Ireland's
Oddist
Travel Company
Organising tours to unique & unexpected destinations around Ireland. The oft ignored as mundane but in reality fascinating, bizarre and downright odd sights the 32 counties have to offer.
32 counties · 0 tourist traps
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Welcome to Ireland's Oddist Travel Company
Ireland — the home of Father Ted's Craggy Island, where there's a museum dedicated purely to leprechauns and a festival crowns a goat king. Oddball Tours is on a mission to show you all the fascinating and unconventional sights, tours, activities and festivals taking place around Ireland throughout the year.
Oddball Tours is a one of a kind Irish tourism business. We create "off the beaten track" experiences showing locals and tourists alike, people old and young, aspects of Ireland normally overlooked by travel guides — sending you to places other tours don't and won't go.
With custom designed packages ranging from personalised itineraries for self-guided tours to complete packages with accommodation, transport and concierge, we cater for groups big and small. Start from anywhere in Ireland. We design tours for all modes of transport — car, public, bike and feet! Mystery tour itineraries possible also.
32 counties
Tour Options
Every tour is customised. For more info on any of these, email info@oddballtours.com.
21 tours
01Bandit Border
We bring you county hopping in the contentious border counties of Cavan, Louth and Monaghan.
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02Curious Cork
Spend some time exploring the People's Republic of Cork — if they let you in...
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03Dublin Divilment
An urban safari of sorts checking out places around Dublin (both North and South of the Liffey) you won't find on normal tourist trails.
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04Dublin Curiosities
The oddest way to explore Dublin — the Ultimate Dublin Curiosities Challenge. Cross Dublin without passing a single pub (near impossible!), hunt down Atlas Obscura hidden spots, the strangest monuments and the most bizarre Dublin traditions, and poke into forgotten doorways, mysterious tunnels and hidden histories in plain sight. Includes a custom map, timing suggestions and cultural insights.
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05Notorious North
Hoping you got the FAT Dad reference with the tour picture. But in case you haven't, this tour brings you to Fermanagh, Antrim, Tyrone, Derry, Armagh and Down.
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06Irish Roulette
Like the Russian version but without the gun and an Irish twist. No, no vodka either. Basically we choose the mystery tour for you.
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07Galway Hooker
We send you on an alternative tour of the City of the Tribes — exploring some gems hidden in plain sight. Note: Not a tour of a red light district. Sorry to disappoint.
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08Ghost Hunting Ireland
Too many ghosts in Ireland to count! You can't go anywhere without tripping over a ghost or ten. Depending on your location we send you to the most haunted locations on the paranormal meter.
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09Honorary Irish
Become an unofficial Irish person in five days or less. A digital crash course with seven bite-sized modules, a printable certificate and a voice note from your virtual Irish mammy.
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10Kooky Kerry
We take a break from the diddley-eye tourism Kerry has become known for and show you the real Kerry — no Kerry Man jokes, promise!
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11Lovely Limerick (City &/or Co)
Ireland's answer to Detroit, Limerick gets a bad rap (no pun intended), but don't let its nickname (Stab City) turn you off. Limerick has a lot to offer by way of oddball attractions!
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12Magical Midlands
The flyover states of Ireland, poor Laois, Longford, Offaly and Westmeath often get overlooked by tourists. Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were famously spotted at a cinema in Laois on their honeymoon in Ireland. Should have taken an OT!
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13Mad Mayo
Originally this tour was called Mad Mayo because of being home to some of the strangest attractions in the whole of the country but was changed for fear of offending the locals of this never ending county. And then changed back again. The place is MAD!
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14Narnia in the N-East
Though technically not an imaginary land of strange people and talking animals, the North West counties of Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo have their fair share of ethereal sights and attractions for the discerning visitor.
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15Rowdy Roscommon
Home to an infamous prison and what is possibly my favourite pub in the world, reason enough to give landlocked Roscommon its very own tour. Note: May venture into next door neighbour Lonely Longford. As when ever will you find yourself there otherwise?!
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16Ruinair Clare
Still waiting for The New York Times to do a 36 Hours in Clare layover review. This place has it all — stunning views, twee tourist attractions and weird and wonderful festivals aplenty.
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17Sunny South East
As someone from the wet west the resentment is ingrained! A long-time favourite holiday destination for day tripping Dubliners we send you on a walkabout around Carlow, Kilkenny, Waterford and Wexford.
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18The Pale
By definition (Urban Dictionary...): the area of and surrounding Dublin, Ireland. Full of West Brits and D4 accents and home to many a rugger bugger. Also venturing into the neighbouring Meath and Kildare.
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19Tipsy Tipperary
I'll be honest — this tour is not for the faint hearted. Or those of the alcohol abstention variety. Some of Tipp's best alternative tourism attractions revolve around pubs. Not sure what that says about Tipp or my gravitation when compiling.
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20Weird Wonders
For those who want a bit of a road trip this tour takes you around the country over the course of two days and will enable you to see a few of the attractions on different tour routes. When one Oddball Tour just isn't enough!
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2132 Counties / 48 Hrs
It does what it says on the tin. Think Anthony Bourdain's The Layover but in Ireland on shit roads and with a fair amount of rain likely. A great boast though if you manage to complete it!
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Sample Tour Activities — County Mayo
Can be incorporated into a half day, full day or multi-day plan. Wander it in any order — the path meanders, and so should you.
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Boat it out to the former Hippy Island and John Lennon and Yoko Ono's planned retirement home
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Explore The Lost Valley near Louisburgh, Co Mayo
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Coffee break at Kelly's Kitchen in Newport, ancestral home of the Hollywood star Grace Kelly
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Visit NAMA-henge, constructed over a weekend by a controversial property developer and protester
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Walk around the Deserted Village at Slievemore, Achill Island, a haunting reminder of times past
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Drag stones along Bellacorick's xylophone Musical Bridge
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Enjoy a photo opp upon arrival in Cum, Co Mayo
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Stop for tea in Ireland's Titanic Village
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Take a whiskey distillery tour to give you Dutch courage to face the rest of the stops
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Check out one man's collection of Irish memorabilia comprising over 100,000 items spanning 400 years
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Rock up to Ireland's answer to Vegas...
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Pit stop in Tooreen where the devil famously made an appearance at a dance hall back in the day
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Technically not Mayo but worth the detour, the quirky Hell's Kitchen in Castlerea, Co Roscommon
Who
Founded by Jen Condon, an avid traveller who has to date visited over 100 countries and states. After travelling around the world and having had what can only be described as some truly bizarre tour experiences in foreign lands, between...
climbing a slag-heap in a post-industrial Belgian town, camping out in a mud hut on an isolated Indian reservation in Mormon-country Utah, getting lost & spending Halloween night with some friendly police men in an NYC subway station…wearing a tutu; a story-telling session in a Beijing shanty town; mezcal tasting in Mexico; spending time with members of the Amish community in America's mid-west; visiting an abandoned Soviet satellite station in northern Latvia; attending the surreal & visually stunning Mass Games in North Korea complete with 100,000 performers...
...to touring Detroit's abandoned ruins; traditional cooking in Morocco; hanging out in unrecognised Russian breakaway republics; a Communist theme park and underground KGB captive bunker experience in rural Lithuania; dressing up on the abandoned Battleship Island off the south coast of Japan; traversing Heroin Highway in Eastern Tajikistan; wandering through cobblestoned streets in Dracula's Transylvania; night time border crossings in Iran; wedding crashing in Guatemala; enjoying a frankly sacrilegious graveyard tour in the Deep South's New Orleans; exploring former Communist-era bunkers in the Czech Republic and Art Deco Eastern Germany to trawling London for the most recent graffiti paintings of elusive street-artists...
…the attention is now focused on Ireland!
What it costs
Pricing
Group Tours
On request
- Tours for groups of any size, tailored to your crowd — get in touch for a quote
On request
Honorary Irish
Digital course at honoraryirish.com
- ☘️ Digital Certificate Package — full 7-module course + printable cert + virtual mammy voice note
€49
Event Management & Consultancy
Prices upon request
- ☘️ Team days out for work, sports & social groups
- ☘️ Unorthodox weddings, parties, festivals — even funerals
- ☘️ Destination management for conferences & incentives
- ☘️ Travel writing & content for blogs and brands
- ☘️ Oddball trips abroad, planned start to finish
On request