I am renting a car for 4 days arriving in Dublin. I am not familiar with the country and would like help planning a 4 day road trip.
Any help is greatly appreciated!

With only 4 days I would forget the road trip and just spend 4 days in Dublin (a fantastic city). Hopefully this is a summer trip for you. Summer in Dublin is great. Hotels are not cheap in Dublin but I would stay in the center city somewhere around Grafton Street / St. Stephen's Green area.

I agree. Distances in Ireland may not seem large but once off the motorways speeds are slow and there is a lot to see in a small area.

Forget the car and stay in Dublin. Maybe do a trip to Glendalough if you really want to leave the city for a day.

I concur entirely. You could do one day trip from Dublin, perhaps to Newgrange or Powerscourt Gardens if you want to see some country, but don’t waste your precious time viewing Ireland through a windshield.

>>I am not familiar with the country and would like help planning a 4 day road trip.<<

You picked Ireland (and Dublin) for some reason - what do you hope to see/do? Get a guide book -- figure out which places seem interesting -- then come back and ask us if they are possible in 4 days. With just 4 days it will have to be a short list for sure. And if the for days includes you arrival after an over night flight, its really only 3 days.

There is no way for us to tell you where to go without input from you.

Skip the car and use public transportation. It is great in Ireland. Dublin is a great base and you can do so many good tours, an example is Irish Rover Tours. They have a driver and guide. You could take a tour to Belfast for the day, long but great if you see the Titanic Museum and do a coastal tour. Airbnb have some great accommodations but Trinity college rents out dorm rooms in the summer. Your girls might really enjoy that. Museums are free in Dublin, the dart train takes you to Howth or Dalkey along the coast so you get some cliff walks. This is a terrible website so will come back with a link for you.

https://www.tcd.ie/summeraccommodati...ms-apartments/ I have lost everything when posting links so better safe this way.

I am not a big fan of Dublin. I much prefer the countryside.
If Dublin is amust, spend a day, then head south to Powerscourt and Glendalough.
If you want to spend more time driving, then drive the RIng of Kerry.
The Irish countryside is so beautiulf. Don't spend all your time in the city.

Galway - a nice university city on Irish's ballyhooed West Coast is about as close to Dublin as any West Coast area and the Connemarra and things like Cliffs of Mohair and the Burren could all be included in a short car trip. Maybe there and back if not into Dublin, to some a boring place to others quite the opposite.

Please note that Pal's short car trip would take about 3 hours to get to Galway and if doing a circuit down to the Cliffs of Moher ( note spelling ) the trip would take close to five hours from Dublin to Galway to Cliffs of Moher and back to Galway and that's without any stops. There are a number of tour companies in Dublin that offer day trips to various spots outside of Dublin giving you an opportunity to see some of the countryside. I concur with the majority here and would spent my time in Dublin taking day tours.

>>Cliffs of Mohair<<. . . . Mohair? Do they have goats there

Yup were selling Mohair sweaters whe I was there back in colonial times.

The OP left never to return, can't say I blame her.

>>The OP left never to return, can't say I blame her.<<.

Sure she did . . . Ireland. You even posted to it. She received good info and thanked us . . .

The OP ain't mad at anyone.