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Kilkenny Castle Parklands tops list of Fáilte Ireland’s most visited free sites in Ireland

MaryAnn Vaughan by MaryAnn Vaughan
04/08/2019
in KCLR News, News & Sport
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Kilkenny Castle Parklands has – for the first time – topped the list of the most visited free-to-enter attractions in Ireland.

Fáilte Ireland has today published the list of the top visitor attractions in the country for 2018.

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As always, the Guinness Storehouse has come up trumps on the list of fee-charging attractions with 1.74 million people.

Last month KCLR revealed Kilkenny Castle Grounds had a record almost 800,000 visitors during the year.

It’s come in just ahead of the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin to clinch the top spot on the non-fee-charging list.

Overall, the top ten fee-charging attractions during 2018 were:

 

  1. Guinness Storehouse – 1,736,156 (visitors)
  2. Cliffs of Moher Visitor Experience – 1,580,000
  3. Dublin Zoo – 1,230,145
  4. Book of Kells – 1,057,642
  5. Tayto Park – 700,000
  6. St Patrick’s Cathedral – 627,199
  7. Kylemore Abbey & Garden – 561,657
  8. Muckrose House – 550,649
  9. Powerscourt House Gardens and Waterfall – 472,523
  10. Blarney Castle & Gardens – 460,000

Ireland’s top ten ‘free to enter’ attractions for 2018 were:

  1. Kilkenny Castle Parklands2 – 799,032
  2. The National Gallery of Ireland3 – 775,491
  3. Glendalough Site – 732,824
  4. National Botanic Gardens – 655,609
  5. Castletown House Parklands – 642,278
  6. Irish Museum of Modern Art – 505,891
  7. Doneraile Park – 490,000
  8. National Museum of Ireland – Archaeology, 466,038
  9. Farmleigh House Estate – 389,932
  10. Battle of the Boyne/Oldbridge Est – 355,608

Kilkenny Castle Parklands introduced a new counter system mid-2017. This system collected visitor numbers for a 12-month period for the first time in 2018.

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