Irish Private Tours

Discover Ireland at a relaxed and personal pace on a private day tour with Michael Fox, an experienced driver guide based in the Boyne Valley. These tours are designed for travellers who want more than a checklist experience, offering time, context and genuine insight into Ireland’s landscapes, history and traditions.

Each tour begins with collection from your accommodation in Dublin or Meath, removing the need for car hire, navigation or tight schedules. Travel is in comfort in a modern, luxury sedan or MPV, with the flexibility to adjust the day as it unfolds. As a private tour the focus remains on your interests, whether that is archaeology, history, scenery, photography or simply enjoying the atmosphere of the places you visit.

The Boyne Valley is one of Europe’s most important archaeological landscapes and forms the centrepiece of many day tours. At Brú na Bóinne, the Stone Age passage tombs of Newgrange, Knowth and Dowth predate the pyramids and Stonehenge, offering a powerful connection to Ireland’s earliest inhabitants. Beyond these monuments, the wider valley reveals layers of history, from the early Christian settlement of Monasterboice to the Hill of Tara, a place of kingship, ritual and mythology that shaped Ireland’s political and spiritual identity for centuries. These sites are not visited in isolation, but woven together through stories that place them firmly within the landscape.

A private day tour to Wicklow provides a very different but equally memorable experience. Often described as the garden of Ireland, Wicklow is characterised by sweeping mountain scenery, glacial valleys and quiet back roads. Glendalough, with its early monastic ruins set beside two lakes, offers insight into Ireland’s early Christian period in a setting of exceptional natural beauty. Scenic drives through the Wicklow Mountains allow time to appreciate the landscape, with opportunities to stop at viewpoints and lesser known locations that are easily missed on larger group tours.

I have been running a specialist website dedicated to the Newgrange World Heritage Site since 2007 and guiding private tours of the Boyne Valley since 2010. This long term focus has resulted in a deep familiarity with the sites, their ongoing research and the practical details that help a day run smoothly. It also reflects a genuine passion for sharing Ireland’s heritage in a way that is informative, respectful and engaging.

These private day tours are ideal for visitors who value depth over speed, comfort over crowds, and conversation over commentary. Whether your primary interest is prehistoric Ireland, early Christian monuments, scenic landscapes or a thoughtful blend of all three, the aim is to provide a rewarding and authentic day out, offering a lasting sense of connection to Ireland and its remarkable past.