The History Of Dublin City

Our tour is designed to give you the best experience of Dublin by having a driving tour through the history of Dublin city centre.

We will work with you on customizing your tour with options below within the time frame allocated for the day dependant on pick up and drop off times and locations.

  • Pick up at your hotel for your own private tour. (your party only will be on the tour)
  • HOWTH The magestic fishing of Howth village located on Peninsula Dublin Bay
  • PHOENIX PARK set up 12th century as a Norman hunting ground, now home to fallow deer and two dignitaries, the Irish president and the American Ambassador.
  • LEINSTER HOUSE,  Irelands government buildings
  • ST STEPHENS GREEN Dublins most famous parkway in the georgian square of Stephens Green
  • CUSTOMS HOUSE built in 1793 on the River Liffey
  • ROTUNDA HOSPITAL  the oldest maternity hospital in the world founded by Bartholomew Mosse in 1745.
  • CHRIST CHURCH  is one of the most historic buildings in Ireland at nearly 1,000 years old.
  • ST. PATRICKS CATHEDRAL stands in the heart of Dublin striking and beautiful for over 800 years.
  • DUBLIN CASTLE built in the 13thcentury is the historical heart of the city.
  • CITY HALL built between 1769 and 1779.
  • GEORGIAN EXPERIENCE, overview of the oldest Georgian Building in Dublin, Henrietta Street 
  • GARDEN OF REMEMBRANCE, visit a memorial garden to those who gave their lives for Irish freedom.
  • ROTUNDA HOSPITAL is the oldest maternity hospital in the world founded by Bartholomew Mosse in 1757.
  • O’CONNELL STREET famously named after the Great Emancipator Daniel O’Connell. It is Dublin’s main thoroughfare and Home to the famous GPO building.
  • GPO is the most famous building in Irish History, where Padraig Pearse read out the Irish Proclamation on Easter Monday 24th April 1916.
  • Drop of at your hotel accommodation

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Royal Historical Tours qualified tour guide will pick you up from your hotel reception in our luxury vehicle for a customized tour for your party only.

Ancestry Tour

Our certified genealogist and tour guide Ian, will take you on an immersive experience to see where your ancestors once worshipped, worked, lived and loved. We have various tour options available to you. Have you completed your genealogy research and know where you want to visit? Driving in Ireland can often be challenging as searching for your ancestors on local roads can be difficult and time consuming. Royal Historical tours qualified tour guide and certified genealogist can take you ‘home’. Do you require genealogy research? We are partnered with award winning genealogy company, My Ireland Heritage that can undertake your genealogy research as they specialize in finding your ancestors exact location in the 1800’s.

I hired Ian Darragh as my guide for the day. Not only is he incredibly engaging, funny and personable but astutely experienced in genealogy and Irish history – the good, bad and ugly. There was not a moment that I wasn’t fascinated with the tales.

BUT what took it over the top was his perseverance in the goal to help me locate some kind of trace of my ancestors. With a stop at the Louth County Library and a few friendly calls on some local elders we headed to Monasterboice to see the High Cross. What was wholy unexpected was to find my ancestors memorial just yards away in the same graveyard!

The day was beyond memorable and I cannot wait to book another adventure with Ian as I continue to research my Irish Ancestors and discover more about the amazing isle of Ireland.

– Cristin Carr Strubbe, USA, 2023

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