Three Irish tourist attractions featured on the Lonely Planet’s ‘1,000 Ultimate Sights’

Clarence House? Terrible choice. Along with all the natural beauties which abound in Ireland, what about Newgrange, a world wonder, or Dromoland if hotels were to be included. From the picture, the Clarence House would hold no appeal for us. Possibly the choice of Clarence House, aside from it belong to U2, was to deminish Ireland as a tourist attraction.

Carrigcourt. Couldn't afford to buy a postcard? pULL THE OTHER ONE!!!!!!

PatriciaMarya - if that Longford B&B was in a giant converted estate just off the main highway, we were there in 2004 and it totally rocked. We had a sports connection there too - when we woke up we were informed that the Red Sox had won the World Series. Being solid Yankee fans, that was not the best start to our day.

In the spirit of Obama, let's compromise here. Build a replica of the Clarence Hotel on the Cliffs of Moher.

Travel guides try too hard to be different from each other.

To the OldPerfessor...I totally agree - a hotel vs. The Cliffs of Moher?! No contest to this Yank! I'll take a lovely bed and breakfast in Longford where the Lady of the House took the time to make us Potato Cakes to go under our poached eggs that wonderful Satuday in February of 2009 with the Olympics from Vancouver on in the living room. (Gosh, that just made me way too nostalgic!)

Hey, before it became upscale I often stayed in the Clarence as a relatively cheap (£15 a night for single) convenient city centre stay with a great restaurant when I visited Ireland. Whether it belongs on this Lonely Planet list of Sites (not signts) is a no-brainer, it doesn't!

Not sure about that Lonely Planet list but the Lonely Planet guide for Ireland is only travel guide I have found here in the USA that has anything about the areas in Ireland where my ancestors came from, the Bailieborough/Kingscourt area of Co. Cavan and the Carrickmacross area of Co. Monaghan. Not big tourist areas but they have lovely hills and lakes. I remember my second cousin trying to find postcards in Kingcourt and while finding a few she found them too dear in price to purchase.

Let's see now - do we pick a Dublin hotel or the Cliffs of Moher? Really hard choice. Flip a coin.