About Lahinch
Lahinch is small. One main street, a long arc of beach, a promenade and a links golf course that has hosted the Irish Open. The town comes alive in summer when the surf schools fill up and the town's pubs open their back gardens. In winter it is quieter, but the surf is bigger and the locals will tell you it is the better season if you can handle a five-millimetre wetsuit.
The Cliffs of Moher visitor centre is fifteen minutes north by road. The Burren, a strange limestone landscape that looks lunar from the air, starts another fifteen minutes inland. Doolin, the next village up the coast, runs ferries to the Aran Islands during the season.
Lahinch is a forty five minute drive from Shannon Airport and just over two hours from Dublin.
Stories & guides
Reading from Lahinch and beyond
Loop Head Peninsula from Lahinch: the day Clare keeps to itself
An hour south of Lahinch, where the Shannon Estuary meets the Atlantic and County Clare finally runs out of road, there's a lighthouse that's been…
Ennistymon: the market town three kilometres from Lahinch
The Inagh River comes barrelling through the centre of Ennistymon, drops over a series of rock ledges that the locals call the Cascades, and if you…
Lahinch links golf, what visitors should know
The Lahinch Golf Club is one of the great links courses in the world. Old Tom Morris laid out the original holes in 1892 and the current Old Course…
Doolin or Lahinch, which Clare base is right for you
If you are spending more than a night in Clare, the question is whether to base yourself in Lahinch or Doolin. They are fifteen kilometres apart…
The Burren from Lahinch, what to actually see
The Burren is the limestone karst region in north Clare that starts about twenty kilometres inland from Lahinch and runs to the coast at Black Head…
Christmas Party Ideas in Carlingford: Make This Year One to Remember
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