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Having reviewed maps and such, the part we did next was not the part I remember doing next.
So, I’m going to do it in the order I remember, even if that isn’t the order we did it.
It’s 15 years ago. I guess I get confused.

After a while (if not directly after Glengariff) we went out to the Dingle peninsula.

The peninsula on the SW side of Ireland is one of the few places where people still speak Gallic as a language. When we drove up to the B&B we stayed at the little girl who lived there (and was only about 4-5 years old) came running out and greeted us in Gallic.
It is a very nice part of Ireland.

Must less built up and “touristy” then other parts we went to.

Although I am told that in the summer it swarms with tourists. Not in October.

We spent 2 days there. The first day we took a van tour that brought us around the peninsula and showed us lots of sites that were in farmers back yards and other places we might not have found on our own.

We did have to do a lot of sheep dodging there.

But, it was quite a bit of fun to be allowed to climb in and out of historical sites, which they don’t always allow at the public places.

The second day we drove around some on our own. At one point it was pouring rain and we saw an old man standing at a bus stop in it without an umbrella.
We stopped and asked if he needed a ride.
“Dingle!” he said, which is also the name of the biggest town on the peninsula.
As we drove the 20 minutes there, he talked the whole way.
I have no idea what he said. I’m pretty sure he was speaking English, not Gallic. But, his accent was so thick, I didn’t have a clue.
When we got to Dingle town, we stopped at a stop sign and he hopped out and walked away. So, I assume that is where he was going.

We had heard that there was a dolphin that lived in Dingle harbor and that some of the fishermen would take you out to see it.

We found a young woman by a dock who told us her father ran a boat that would do it. She told us what the price would be, but said to pay on the boat.
When we got on the boat, we sailed out into the harbor without exchange of cash.
We found the dolphin and floated along side of him for a while.

After a while the fisherman turned to us.
“Everyone see the dolphin?” he asked.
We all said yes.
“It’s 10 pounds each to bring you back to shore,” he said.
It was an interesting way to do it. Don’t know what he’d do if you didn’t have the cash. We did, and had planned to pay that, so it was OK.

The same town had an aquarium that they had just built. It wasn’t very big, but it was very cool. It was the first one I had been to with the clear tube you walk through at the bottom of the tank to look up at the fish.

Those two days there were my favorite part of that trip. Maybe that’s why I remember it above Killarney.