Ultimate All-Ireland Landmark Tournament

Again I'm not 100% certain that either is the number one landmark in its own county, and for this reason I don't know that either will be the last one standing. Dun Briste is somewhere I've been to and experienced first hand whereas I've never been to Grianan of Aileach.

The sea stack, combined with the blowhole, the cliffs, the wartime Eire sign and the remains of the lookout house all within a few hundred metres of each other makes this a really excellent landmark and corner of the country to visit, so Downpatrick Head gets my vote here.

Redsoxfan wrote: »

Grianan of Aileach

Great views when you get there. As well as the history of the structure itself.

You can see five counties apparently!

Grianan for me

Sea stack for me.... much as it kills me to vote against Donegal!

The fact that it's by/in the sea is the clincher for me.

Downpatrick Head Sea Stack

Gutted, but it was a great run for the Grianan

Newgrange

Kylemore Abbey

Kylemore Abbey, it has an elegance to it

Kylemore Abbey

As stunning as that picture implies, with loads more around the site for a fun day out. And I said before, I was very underwhelmed by Newgrange and have real issues with the "reconstruction"

Clash of the Titans here.

Newgrange always drops a little for me whwn I remember it's been done up, whereas the landscape around Kylemore is absolutely stunning. I vote Kylemore.

I found this tough to choose, so I went and did a quick bit of reading on them. I wasn't particularly impressed by some of the more modern alterations that have been made at Newgrange, that try to reflect how it originally looked but were carried out using methods that didn't exist at the time, or were undertaken purely to make tourist access easier. That definitely takes away from Newgrange for me, so it tipped the balance towards Kylemore Abbey, which gets my vote.