HAVE YOU EVER tried being a tourist in your own land?
If not, there are a number of never-missed attractions that busloads of visitors frequent every day.
Fáilte Ireland has compiled handy lists of the most popular fee-paying and free attractions in Ireland last year.
Unsurprisingly, the Guinness Storehouse in Dublin comes out on top – as it has for the past number of years.
During 2014, it added 100,000 visitors to its annual footfall keeping it well ahead of the second placed Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience.
Here’s the full list:
1,269,371 visitors
1,080,501 visitors
1.076,876 visitors
931,074 visitors
650,476 visitors
457,277 visitors
450,000 visitors
438,000 visitors
390,000
372,503 visitors
There’s also a lot to do without putting your hand in your pocket. These are the most popular free attractions across the country.
1. National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin – 593,183 visitors
2. National Botanic Gardens, Dublin – 541,946 visitors
3. Doneraile Wildlife Park, Cork – 460,000 visitors
4. National Museum of Ireland, Archaeology, Dublin – 447,137 visitors
5. Science Gallery at Trinity College – 406,982
6. Farmleigh, Dublin – 402,773
7. Newbridge Silverware Museum of Style Icons, Kildare – 350,000
8. Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin – 306,662
9. Chester Beatty Library, Dublin 304,000
10. National Museum of Ireland – Natural History, Dublin – 300,272
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