This post is about Dingle, but I'm going to write about Killarney a little bit since I did spend a night there. I'd heard good things about Killarney, and bad things as well. Most of the bad centered around how over touristed Killarney was, and unfortunately it's totally true. I got to the Railway Hostel, which, unsurprisingly, was located across the street from the rail/bus station. The hostel turned out to be really nice, and I almost had a 6 bed room to myself, but a couple people arrived around 9. The town, however, sucked. It was total tourist hell, and I hated it. This is the first place I've come across where I just wanted to leave. The town was absolutely filled with older American tourists browsing the souvenier shops that were in almost every
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