Cliffs of Moher & Doolin · With kids

Book timed entry and go early or late. The paths are wide but the edges are unfenced in places — hold hands, from about age six.

A guided descent to one of Europe's longest free-hanging stalactites, forty-five minutes underground with a farm and nature trail above. Ages five up.

Half an hour from Doolin pier to the smallest Aran island — ponies, a shipwreck on the beach and bikes for hire. From about six.

A cave tour and a birds-of-prey centre with flying displays at Ballyvaughan, twenty-five minutes north through the Burren. Suits four and up.

Gusts at the cliff edge regularly top sixty kilometres an hour — carriers, not buggies, and hoods up. The visitor centre has the only facilities for miles.