Ireland
6 of the 19 places on our Ireland list say something about when to come. This page is those 6 and nothing else. It is not a guide to the weather in Ireland, and there is no booking engine behind it — for dates, go to the owner.
That is not most of the list. Read what follows as 6 owners describing their own places rather than as a picture of the season in Ireland: the other 13 listings say nothing about season at all, and are not represented below.
Owners mean two different things by a season. Some are stating when they are open — a campsite that shuts at the end of September. Some are stating when they think it is worth the drive — the fortnight the bluebells are out. Nothing in the wording separates the two, so we have not sorted them into piles we could not defend. Every place below carries its own words.
A month is filled in when the listing’s wording names it, so 14 March to 2 November fills March, though the gate is shut for the first fortnight of it. Where the wording names something we cannot put on a calendar — a season whose boundaries are arguable, an opening date with no closing one — it stays as prose rather than becoming a guess.
| Place | As we read it | January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December |
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| Pure Space Eco Glamping | March to November | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it |
| Lough Mardal Eco Lodge | Open all year | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season |
| Nagle's Doolin Camping & Caravan Park | March to October | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it |
| Beara Camping | April to October | Outside it | Outside it | Outside it | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | In season | Outside it | Outside it |
| In season, of 4 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | |
Widest: April to October — 4 of 4. Narrowest: December to February — 1 of 4.
The chart above is our reading. This is theirs, unedited.
Loop Head, County Clare · Sleeps 2–6
Owner-run cabins and bell tents in ten acres of native woodland on the Loop Head Peninsula, a quarter of an hour's walk from the sea.
From €110 / night
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Stated season: 14 March – 2 November
Ballintra, County Donegal · Sleeps 2–4
Skydome yurts and shepherd's huts on the shore of a Donegal lake, lit by lantern and candle.
££ · Mid-range
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Stated season: Open all year
Doolin, County Clare
Family-run and a hundred metres from Doolin Pier, between the Cliffs of Moher and the Burren.
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Stated season: Mid-March to mid-October
near Kenmare, County Kerry
A small family-run site in the heart of the Ring of Beara, twelve kilometres from Kenmare.
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Stated season: 15 April – 15 October
Not every wording converts, and forcing one that does not is how a page like this starts writing content its sources never said. A season whose boundaries are arguable, an opening date with no closing one, two answers for two kinds of accommodation on the same site — these are left exactly as stated, and left off the chart.
Dunfanaghy, County Donegal · Sleeps 2–31
An old mill and its stream five minutes from Dunfanaghy, with pitches, bell tents, railway carriages and a converted trawler.
From €17.50 / night
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Stated season: Camping June–September; some accommodation year-round
Dingle, County Kerry
Pitches at the western end of the Dingle Peninsula, ten minutes from the town and a short walk from the beach.
£ · Budget
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Stated season: Opens 13 March
Nothing here speaks for the other 13 listings on the Ireland list. They state no season, and we are not going to infer one — the field is filled a country at a time from what operators publish about themselves, and until it is filled the honest thing is a shorter page.