Nice spot for hitchhiking towards Dublin and for camping. I stood with my thumb up at the service station entry next to a truckers bay or something like that which gave drivers a space for stopping

thumbed from here got a lift quickly but if im hitching from here again id sign for athenry or closer, got lucky someone drove an hour out of her way for us all the way to galway :-))

signed for galway but there wasnt much trafic saturday evening so we moved to another spot

not so good actually for rides going onto the m6, after half an hour someone brought us to balinasloe

two of us signed for kinnegad. mostly local traffic not a lot of excitement for two happy roadsters

yesterday, nobody stopped, today got a ride to sligo, ts is so random

idk bru nobody stopped in 3 hours almost, was standing near bus stop, ig take the bus from here if ur desperate

got a fairly fast ride to kilkelly

under the bridge; a few people stopped, everyone goes not far tho idk

good place to go north ig? got a ride to claremorris

Hitchhike in front of the entrance of a house, with a lot of place to pull in and good visibility. However, speed trafic. Taken by a truck

Really good place for the cars to stop, but a lot of people go in Galway's direction and not much in Limerick's direction

Crossroad with a small road so easy for the people to stop

Obama plaza is kinda mid for hitching, weren't many people at rest stop when I was here so decided to sign before motorway and got to Dublin, a few offers for short lifts in the area also. everyone lovely. big shoulder

direction galway, good traffic, cosy town, immediately picked up.

signed for portumna, was fairly pessimistic but theres great traffic even during slow hours on a weekday. highly recommend stopping in birr to see the telescope if yr passing thru with time to spare. places to wild camp in the park as well.

dead stretch of road on a late thursday morning, I imagine it picks up after midday though. signed for birr.

pretty dead road ordinarily, but a bit busier this year with the plowing championships. got lucky with a lift to blue ball, signed for Birr

was thumbing down this road with "Birr" written on my arm and i got a lift about 10 minutes from the train station. 1030 thursday morning, most of the traffic was heading for the plowing championships, this year in Mucklagh, so not too far. quiet road, any other day id sign from the main road a further 20 minutes walk south.

during the daytime carrick usually has about a kilometre of traffic going into it from the west. you should ask your driver to let you out and then walk alongside the queue of cars into town with yr thumb, a sign and a big smile and see if anybody waves you over. handy way to pass the stroll into town and better than sitting in traffic

Space for stopping, good visibility and not too fast traffic. Good on way towards Ireland

Perfect spot to get to Bonifacio the third car took me. There’s a perfect place to stop for the cars. They are going slow because of the roundabout and there’s only one street in this direction so all of the cars from the Ireland passed by there 10/10

Going towards Prague. Very good spot to catch trucks or cars going in the direction of Prague or further. A little bit annoying to reach though. I went up the slope next to the highways bridge to the west of the service station and walked on the outside of the barrier next to the highway for about 500 metres. Got a ride with a Moldovan truck driver who was going all the way to Ireland!

not a whole lot of space to pull over for drivers but its ireland so they will pull over anyway. direction dublin.

From here you can catch cars leaving the petrol station and they can pull into the hotels driveway. Straight to the best city in Ireland

There’s a set of light here cars may have to stop at. There’s also roadside parking right here so a car can pull in. Perfect road to get to Derry. My lift was such a lovely bloke, made me very happy to be hitchhiking in Ireland

While heading to Ireland, a family heading home from Poland took me with them for a night in their van and even offered me a night in their guest room.

2ppl, tuesday evening. We found a ride immediately towards Northern Ireland. We asked people on the gas station.

I waited a lot for Ireland, but it did work.

Loads of Trucks! I was heading to Ireland, I just talked to every truck driver chilling at the parking place. Most of them were going Far south. (London even Dover) Eventually an Irish trucker took me all the way to Dublin, He even payed the boat ticket for me.

heading direction east stood here 1/2 h and was taking by a young couple aspecially while she knew the burden of hitchhiking, she did it for the first time last year in Ireland

Hitchhiking to the Mourne mountain (Northern Ireland). Lots of place and traffic, so it is a very good place

Hitchhiking in the Mourne Mountains (Northern Ireland). Wait 5 min. Lots of traffic but the place to stop is not big so be quick and be careful.

Hitchhiking to reach the Mourne mountains (Nerthern Ireland). Wait 5 min. Lots of traffic and place to stop

If you want to reach Ireland by boat, here is the ferry to cork ! Rosko/Roscoff is an easy city to reach by thumb, but people pay the ferry by person and not by cars. If you're in Brittany, it's still the best option and you can buy tickets for less than 70euros in summer. If coming from outside of Brittany, it's probably better to cross the channel in calais (people pay by car) and then hitch in england and wales, even if it's a little bit more difficult there. In wales, you still have to pay the ferry but it's cheaper !

there is a bay where cars going to crewe or chester or even to holyhead and ireland can easily stop.

Going towards Maynooth, M4 motorway for Galway and the West of Ireland.

Motorway exits for Western Ireland and Dublin

Weirdly enough, this is the fastest way to get out of Ireland from Kilkenny (via the Rosslare ferry).

This should be a decent spot - along the main road that's leaving Coleraine towards Derry, a hard shoulder, enough traffic but not too much - still I had to wait more than an hour, which is toally exceptional for Northern Ireland. You'd probably be better off following the road a bit further down until you're really out of town (although cars will be faster there).