CanGo is a free audio companion for the other 99%: stories that play as you drive or walk, about the places you pass and the people in them.
The one who knows which beach is empty on a Saturday, which chipper is worth the queue and who's been frying there for forty years, and the story about the bridge everyone else drives over.
That friend, in your pocket. Pick a road and go. The stories find you.
Driving and walking tours across three peninsulas, made stop by stop. Honest times, real distances.
Stories play as you reach each place. Your eyes stay on the road; your phone stays in your pocket.
Stop at a shop, a studio or a pub on the way, and CanGo tells you whose place it is: who runs it, how it began, what they make or do. Then go in and say hello.
Leave the route whenever something looks interesting. That's rather the point. We'll still let you know when you're passing something worth hearing, and with 15,000 places in Kerry, that's never far.
The famous places are famous for good reason, and CanGo takes you to them. But Kerry runs 15,000 places deep, and the queue is standing at a handful.
We're for the road between the famous stops: the one with no coach parking, a name older than the English language, and someone who still remembers why it matters.
Every CanGo story starts with someone finding out properly: reading what was written down and what people remembered, and keeping the detail exact.
And we're building towards a simple promise: one day, every story in CanGo will carry the name of a local who checked it and said yes, that's right.
The fuchsia flooding these ditches isn't native at all, but it settled in so well the Irish gave it a name of its own: Deora Dé, the tears of God.
This track once carried firkins of salted butter over the hills toward Cork — weeks of walking behind a donkey, to the biggest butter market in the world.
The old maps have two words for a place that's gone: (site of). The school that closed. The pier the sea took. The village that emptied in a single generation.
And older things still: the field where a battle is said to have turned, the rock a saint is supposed to have cursed, the names that remember people no record kept.
We tell you about them anyway, as you pass where they were. Travel that keeps places alive, including the ones that are only alive in the telling.
Before a café or a pub, a gallery or a potter's shop, a farm gate or a pier-side shed goes in the app, one of us has been through the door, had the chowder or picked up the mug, and decided you'd want to know about it. When you walk in, you hear who's behind the counter and how the place came to be. You'll spot our sign in windows around the three peninsulas.
And a rule we don't break: money never buys the map. No business can pay to appear, and payment is never a ranking signal.
More than 9,000 places between them, from strands to standing stones. We're telling their stories, road by road.
| Peninsula | On the record | Field note |
|---|---|---|
| Beara | 2,052 | Remote, rugged, and mostly left alone. Mountain passes, coloured villages, and no signal in places, which is fine, because CanGo works without it. |
| Iveragh | 4,365 | Home of the Ring of Kerry: 179 kilometres of coast, Ireland's highest mountains, and most of its places beyond the famous route. |
| Dingle | 2,290 | Mountains, cliffs, ancient sites and living culture. Dingle rewards the quieter road. |
The count behind the 15,000: 13,762 monuments on Ireland's national record, 90 mapped beaches, 17 waterfalls, and the summits, viewpoints, islands, pubs and walks on top.
That's the whole thing. No account, no questionnaire. The first story plays when you reach the first stop.
Tours download as you choose them and play fully offline — including the far side of Beara.
Stories play as audio while your eyes stay on the road — like a podcast that knows where you are.
Off the route, no tour running at all, if you want. It's a switch, always visible, off until you turn it on. Silence is always one tap away.
Maps gets you from A to B. CanGo is about what's worth stopping for along the way, and the stories and people behind it.
No. Follow a tour, leave it, come back to it, or just drive with the switch on and let places speak as you pass.
Yes. It's audio, like the radio, except it knows where you are. Pick your tour before you set off and leave the phone alone.
One thing: finding what's near you so the right story can play. It's used on your device, not sold, not shared, and never used to build a profile of you. You can switch it off any time.
That's where this is going: tell it your interests and your time, and it shapes the day. It's not in the app yet, and we won't pretend otherwise. What's there now: real tours that work with no signal and ask you nothing.
The app is nearly on the road. Leave your email and be one of the first aboard.
Hear when new places and stories go in, and get a say in where we go next. A note when there’s news, and quiet the rest of the time.