Nation’s Top Visitor Attractions Revealed

Guinness Storehouse top fee-paying choice while National Gallery of Ireland most popular free attraction

Fáilte Ireland have published their annual list of Ireland’s top visitor attractions with the Guinness Storehouse once again a top choice for visitors coming to Ireland on holiday.

Last year, the Guinness Storehouse welcomed over 1.2 million visitors - an increase of over 100,000 over the previous year’s performance. Amongst the nation’s fee-paying attractions, the Storehouse was followed closely by the Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience and Dublin Zoo which both registered just over a million paying visitors in 2014.

Amongst Irelands ‘free to enter’ attractions, the National Gallery of Ireland continued to lead the way but there was also a significant new entry to the top ten free attractions last year with Doneraile Wildlife Park entering the listing at number three thanks to the interest of 460,000 visitors during 2014. Also recording significant growth in numbers, the National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology (up by almost 10%) and the Science Gallery at Trinity College (growth of 5%) performed strongly as well.

Commenting on the figures, Shaun Quinn CEO Fáilte Ireland said -

“Tourism is on track to enjoy what could be a record year in terms of activity and visitors in 2015. With that in mind, we would expect the attendance numbers for most attractions to rise even further. We, in Fáilte Ireland, have invested quite heavily in our tourism infrastructure in recent years to ensure that Ireland remained an appealing destination despite the downturn. Now that tourism is on the rise again, Ireland and its strong collection of attractions are perfectly poised to welcome and cater for ever greater numbers.”

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