Looking for a fun day out with the family? From cinema listings to restaurants there are apps for almost everything these days. Here are some of the best apps to plan a family day out in Ireland, all chosen by parents.

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South Dublin County Heritage Trail App

Discover some of the history and lesser known sights around South Dublin when you download the free interactive heritage trail app.

From an 8th century round tower, a 12th century weir, a 16th century stately home to a 17th century hunting lodge in the Dublin mountains, you will discover over a 1,000 years of Dublin’s history all in one handy app.

The app has both audio and visual guides, and can be downloaded directly to your mobile so you can plan your days out and explore at your own pace. It’s available in English, Irish, French and German.

The South Dublin County Heritage Trail App is available to download free from iTunes and Google Play Store.

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National Famine Way App

The National Family Way App and audio trail is centred around one of the original family walkers who walked from Strokestown in Roscommon to Dublin, 12 year old Daniel Tighe.

Daniel eventually made his way from Dublin to Quebec in Canada and survived the horrific journey.

The app is designed to accompany you along the trail and has videos and interviews with famine experts who have previously walked the trail and tells you of services nearby, landmarks and gives you a history of what happened along the famine way during the famine.

The National Famine Way App is available to download free from iTunes and Google Play Store.

Eco Explorers App

Want an easy way to teach your children about sustainability? SSE Airtricity and Dublin Zoo have teamed up to help families learn more about sustainability.

Discover the Eco Explorers Trail at Dublin Zoo with the help of the Eco Explorers app. Learn what Dublin Zoo is doing to protect our precious planet and what you can do too!

The app, which can be used on any tablet or smartphone, encourages explorers to enjoy their natural spaces and think positively about sustainability and play.

It identifies nine Eco Explorer stations for parents and kids to discover as they explore Dublin Zoo, teaching children simple steps to becoming more sustainable such as making compost, recycling, and harvesting rain water.

Every time you complete a task you’ll receive an Eco Explorer badge. Once you have completed all nine stations you’ll be a fully-fledged Eco Explorer! You can also continue the learning and activities at home too.

The SSE Airtricity Eco Explorer Trail includes some great ‘Did you know?’ facts too. For instance, did you know that Dublin Zoo harvests rainwater from the roofs of several of its buildings and uses this to flush some of its public toilets? So far the SSE Airtricity water stations in have also saved us from using over 166,343 plastic bottles at Dublin Zoo.

The Eco Explorers App is available to download free from iTunes.

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Met Éireann Weather Ireland App

Let’s face it, the weather in Ireland can wreak havoc with family days out! But be prepared for all eventualities with the Met Éireann Weather App where you can find:

• Active weather warnings for rain, wind, snow, ice, fog, temperature and marine
• Environmental warnings for pollen and UV levels
• Get an overview of the weather outlook for the country for the next 7 days
• Get predictions for rainfall, wind and temperature

The Met Éireann Weather App is available to download free from iTunes and Google Play Store.

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TFI Journey Plan App

The TFI (transport for Ireland) Journey Plan App helps you to plan your route for your family day out in Ireland by combining plans for walking, trains, buses, trams, taxi services and even ferries into easy to read journey plans.

You can plan your route for now or any time in the future by typing in your departure point and where you want to travel to. The app will show you several options with varying modes of transport. For some destinations, it will also show how much the trip will cost in cash or TFI Leap Card fare.

The TFI Journey Planner App is available to download free from iTunes and Google Play Store.

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Tides Near Me App

Planning a family day out to the beach? Get all the information you need on tidal conditions including:

• High tide times
• Low tide times
• Current tidal conditions
• Information on currents at your destination
• Sunset times
• Sunrise times

The Tides Near Me App is available to download free from iTunes and Google Play Store.

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Castlecomer Discovery Park Scavenger Hunt App

Castlecomer Discovery Park in Kilkenny have a Digital Scavenger Hunt App which you get a code to download for free when you book any activity.

Using the app, your family will be brought on a journey around the park to discover more about the history and natural environment of the park. You will also be led to hidden treasures and spots!

In addition, elf Fionn will give you quirky clues in the form or photos, videos, puzzles, riddles and quizzes to solve and earn gold coins for your family. You can rank your family against friends and other park visitors!

The Castlecomer Discovery Park Scavenger Hunt App is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play Store, after you have purchased an activity.

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Eat Play Change App

The Eat Play Change App helps you to find places to eat with the kids, places for children to play and places to change baby in locations nearby. It uses Google maps information to ensure accuracy.

Best of all this collaborative app, encourages parents, grandparents and childminders to share their tried and tested locations so you can be sure you are finding the best places to go.

The Eat Play Change App is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play Store

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Adventure Walks App

The Adventure Walks App is a collection of treasure hunts for families with kids aged from 4 to 15 years. Each hunt is between 1 and 2kms.

Currently there are treasure hunt trails for Clare, Limerick and Meath.

The Adventure Walks App is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play Store

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Game of Thrones Locations App

A must for all Game of Thrones fans, the app enables you to travel around the continents in Game of Thrones and discover their real-life counterparts in Northern Ireland. See where scenes were filmed and learn more about the locations.

Plot locations on a map and see which ones you have been to and which ones are still to visit.

The Game of Thrones Locations App is available to download for free on iTunes and Google Play Store

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Geocaching App by Groundspeak Inc

Geocaching is essentially a treasure hunt where you hunt for containers called geocaches hidden in almost every country on earth.

The Geocaching App by Groundspeak Inc walks you through the adventure of finding your first few geocaches and gives you tips, hints and instructions for continued geocaching.

The Geocaching App by Groundspeak Inc is available to purchase from iTunes

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Waymarked Trails App

The Waymarked Trails App not only has hiking trail route maps but gives an audio guide for you to take on your journey. The guides have all been written by local hikers, historians and explorers and includes photos of the ‘not to be missed’ points along the route.

Best of all the app works offline too, so it saves your battery life.

It is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play Store 

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Playground Buddy App

Find a playground when you are out and about with the Playground Buddy App. More than 350,000 playground worldwide are included on the app.

You can search by your current location, town or put in a destination for find your perfect family day out.

You can download the Playground GPS App free from iTunes and  Google Play Store

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Woodland Trust Tree ID App

A great app to keep the kids occupied when you are out and about in the countryside. The Woodland Trust Tree Id App helps you to identify all species of tree found in the UK & Ireland.

You will also get to discover more about each species with facts, folklore, history and uses from medical to musical!

The Woodland Trust Tree ID App is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play Store

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Atlantic Way Explorer App

Whether you are interested in seeing Puffins, discovering castles, towers, fairy bridges and much more the Atlantic Way Explorer App is designed to make it easy to find natural wonders and historic sites along the west coast of Ireland.

The app is designed so you can search by map, county, by features (natural wonders, historic sites etc.) or by features of interest. It is linked to Google navigation and shows photographs too.

The Atlantic Way Explorer App is available to download for free from iTunes and Google Play Store

Over to you now. Have you used any apps to plan a family day out in Ireland that are not on our list? Please share them in the comments box below.