Killarney Car Rental Guide
This page gives you information about the car rental possibilities in Killarney. You will also find some useful facts about car rental and driving in Ireland.
Driving Restrictions
Driving is on the left and overtaking on the right. The minimum age of a driver is 17 years old. Unless the seat is equipped with a child restraint, children must be at least 12 to sit in the front. Seatbelts must be worn at all times. The legal blood alcohol limit is 0.8‰.
The use of horns is prohibited between 11.30 pm and 7 am. You may only use foglights in fog or falling snow.
When parking, all restrctions for parking are lifted after 6 pm, except where there are yellow lines on the road and within a bus stop area. A double yellow line means No parking at any time. Pay-and-display machines are common throughout Ireland. There are large fines for dangerous parking and your car may also be clamped. Fines for parking violations may be collected on the spot. A parking disc allows for one to three hours of parking. Do not park where there are yellow lines on the roadside.
In order to catch traffic violators, speed cameras are used all over Ireland.
Speed limits:| Area | Limit |
| Motorway | 112KM/H |
| In towns | 48KM/H |
| On major roads | 96KM/H |
Emergency Numbers
Police/ambulance/fire: 999 or 911
Road Tolls
There are no tolls roads in Ireland, except for two toll bridges in the Dublin area.
About Killarney
Killarney is one of the world’s best-loved tourist spots, renowned for its beauty, famed for the splendour of its scenery worshipped by druids, fought over by chieftains. With its three famous lakes reflecting the skies above the great mountains ranges, Killarney has been the inspiration of poets and painters for many centuries. Now it is also a flourishing commercial and tourist centre.
Killarney offers a variety of hotels, restaurans and sporting activities for everybody. If you are interested in history and archaeology, you also have plenty to see.
Area:
Population: 12,700
Country: the Republic of Ireland
Time Zone: GMT/UTC 0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
Telephone Area Code: 64
Monetary unit: Euro
