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Home » » Places to See Co. Antrim (Page 4)
Giant’s Causeway Railway
A truly heritage experience travelling on a steam locomotive along a magnificent coastal stretch of line between Bushmills and the World Heritage Site at the Giant’s Causeway.
Giant’s Causeway
A site of World Heritage and therefore ranked alongside Mount Everest and the Giant Redwoods of California for it’s importance .
The Giant’s Causeway is Northern Ireland’s top tourist attraction, and only World Heritage Site. A dramatic coastal landscape steeped in local mythology, the Causeway draws up to half a million visitors a year from around the world.
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
Spanning a chasm some eighty feet deep is the famous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, it’s construction once consisted of a single rope hand rail and widely spaced slats which the fishermen would traverse across with salmon caught off the island. Although no-one has ever been injured falling off the old bridge, there have been many instances of visitors being unable to face the return walk back across the bridge.
Flame! – The Gasworks Museum of Ireland
Carrickfergus boasts Ireland’s sole surviving coal gasworks and is one of the only three left in the British Isles. This museum gives visitors the opportunity to see Europe’s largest surviving set of horizontal retorts (in which the gas was made), meet the manager and the workers, and ascend the working gasholder for panoramic views of Carrickfergus town.
Dunluce Castle
Dunluce Castle is thought by many to be the most picturesque and romantic of Irish castles.
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Antrim Town
Antrim is the county town of County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Antrim is a small town not frequently visited by tourists, yet it is one of the more historic towns in Northern Ireland with many interesting sights and buildings of historic note.
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