The classic road trip, reimagined

As you drive, Road Trip: Ireland—Ireland’s first GPS-guided cultural audio guide—immerses you in local cultural heritage, bringing the richness and complexity of a beautifully crafted audio documentary onto the road, starting with County Clare’s Wild Atlantic Way.

We’ve curated compelling stories, history, folklore, geography, and local music about each region, which play automatically as you drive.

Simply download the app onto your smart device, hook the device up to your car’s entertainment system, drive, and enjoy!

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Get Exploring

Road Trip: Ireland is a GPS-guided app that integrates seamlessly with your audio system. Unlike coach tours, you decide when and where you want to stop and explore.

listen & learn

Connect with the culture, scenery, and local people in a way tourists have never experienced before, featuring local stories, anecdotes, history, and folklore, punctuated by performances of local music, literature, and poetry

Cultural heritage, history, storytelling, exclusive performances

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CULTURal HERITAGE

Road Trip: Ireland is like having a car full of experts and locals to tell you about the area and share their cultural heritage as you drive. With the hands-free app, you’ll actually see the landscape as you hear about its role in local life.

Storytelling

You’ll be immersed in the legends, stories, and history of each locale as told by everyone from a seannachie (traditional storyteller) to the local barman, all woven together with beautifully crafted narration read by Irish actors.

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Performances

The audio guide also features exclusive performances throughout, featuring singer-songwriters, storytellers, poets, actors, and, of course, plenty of Irish traditional musicians.

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audio samples

Miltown Malbay: Mad for ‘Trad’ (0:21)

Lisdoonvarna: Looking for Love in All the Right Places (0:15)

Fanore: The Fertile Rock (0:11)

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Road Trip: IRELAND - Cork and Kerry

Preview the next two installments of our audio guide app for motorists, currently in post-production:

Road Trip: Ireland - Cork & Kerry (7:18)

Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, sean nós style traditional singer, Irish language television and radio presenter, and narrator of our upcoming Road Trip: Ireland - Cork & Kerry audio tour

“I feel it’s important that visitors realize we are desperately trying to hang onto something, as well as be a part of the modern world. I’d like them to hear a bit of our music, a bit of our language, to understand what was here before and what we’re trying to maintain now.”
— Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh
Colourful shop fronts in Kinsale, Co. Cork

Colourful shop fronts in Kinsale, Co. Cork

Mountains and autumn blooms on Beara Peninsula, Co. Kerry

Mountains and autumn blooms on Beara Peninsula, Co. Kerry

In THe field: Cork and Kerry

“Fantastic idea and great implementation, a really creative way to help travelers get the ‘real Ireland’ beyond the touristy areas. ”
— Ian M., Clare, Ireland
Bunratty Castle, Co. Clare

Bunratty Castle, Co. Clare

“Thrilling! The ‘tour guides’ are charming and share great stories!”
— Valerie T. Maryland, USA
Statue of Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare

Statue of Willie Clancy, Miltown Malbay, Co. Clare

“This app and its features are like no other in Ireland. The in-depth storytelling accompanied by Irish folklore make this app so interesting and fun. Would definitely recommend!!!”
— WNCD 11, App Store
“There are people that fight and swear up and down that this Ireland doesn’t exist anymore. It’s heartwarming to see the spirit is alive and well.”
— Daniel B., Texas, USA
The Matchmaker Bar, home of the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival, Co. Clare

The Matchmaker Bar, home of the Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival, Co. Clare

“Fantastic opportunity to learn more while looking out the window and not in a book!”
— Rena D., New York, USA
Horse race in Ballyferriter, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry

Horse race in Ballyferriter, Dingle Peninsula, Co. Kerry

National and International

Local

Clare FM

Road Trip: Ireland’s creators, Deborah and Leah, chat with Clare FM’s Alan Morrissey on Friday’s Morning Focus, 2 July 2021

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The Clare Champion

Road Trip App relaunches with added Clare information, an interview with Cultural Roadmapp’s President, Dr Leah Bernini Cronin, July 2021

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The Clare Herald

Audio Touring App Launched 3 Aug 2017

Dingle Music Shop, Co. Kerry

Dingle Music Shop, Co. Kerry

Willie Daly, the last living Matchmaker, Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival

Willie Daly, the last living Matchmaker, Lisdoonvarna Matchmaking Festival

Moher Cottage, Liscannor, Co. Clare

Moher Cottage, Liscannor, Co. Clare

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Deborah Schull

Founder | CEO

Deborah is Cultural Roadmapp’s creative director and lead scriptwriter. Living in Dublin as a teen, she fell in love with Irish literature, landscape, music, and people. Today her work as a multimedia writer-producer is featured at the Smithsonian, the Reagan Library, the New York Botanical Garden, and San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, among others. She began to write audio tours for industry leader Acoustiguide and the award-winning consultancy Cortina Productions. Prior to that, she wrote and produced the PBS documentary Lens & Pens: Art in an Unexpected Place. Deborah’s work has earned more than 25 honors in all, including the MUSE Award and two Tellies.

Leah Bernini Cronin PhDPresidentLeah directs content collection and curation and supervises music for Cultural Roadmapp. An ethnographer acknowledged as a master interviewer and field researcher, she recorded oral histories and exclusive performance…

Leah Bernini Cronin PhD

President

Leah directs content collection and curation and supervises music for Cultural Roadmapp. An ethnographer acknowledged as a master interviewer and field researcher, she recorded oral histories and exclusive performances in Counties Clare, Cork, and Kerry for our audio tour series. Leah holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology and Master’s degrees in both Irish Traditional Music Performance and Ethnomusicology from the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. She is also an Irish fiddle player and teacher and runs the Millennium House Band, a professional band mentorship program for aspiring Irish traditional musicians.

 

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tel: 1.800.851.222 (Ireland)

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