Clonmacnoise saw a drop over 4,000 visitors last year according to OPW figures.
An Offaly heritage site saw a drop of over four thousand visitors last year.
The latest visitor data from the OPW shows Clonmacnoise dropped from 122,718 visitors in 2023 to 118,337 visitors in 2024, a drop of 3.5%.
Over 13 million people visited heritage sites that require a ticket last year, with Dublin Castle the most visited site with over 720,000 visits.
Junior Minister for the OPW, and Longford Westmeath TD Kevin "Boxer" Moran says some locations saw their visitor numbers jump by over 20 percent in a year:
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