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Hillsborough County Down Hillsborough County Down County Antrim • BT26 6AG

Hillsborough in County Down is one of the finest and most completely Georgian small towns in Northern Ireland, a planned estate town of the eighteenth century whose Georgian…

Tollymore Forest Park Mourne Tollymore Forest Park Mourne BT33 0PT

Tollymore Forest Park in County Down is the oldest forest park in Northern Ireland, a 630-hectare estate of mature woodland, rivers and dramatic glacial terrain in the foothills…

Cushendun Antrim Cushendun Antrim BT44 0PH

Cushendun is a small and exceptionally charming village at the foot of the most northerly of the Glens of Antrim, a settlement whose white-washed Cornish-style cottages designed…

Torr Head Antrim Torr Head Antrim County Londonderry • BT54 6RX

Torr Head is a dramatic headland on the Antrim coast at the point where the North Channel between Ireland and Scotland narrows to approximately twenty kilometres, the closest…

Portballintrae Antrim Portballintrae Antrim County Londonderry • BT57 8TE

Portballintrae is a small and attractive coastal village on the north Antrim coast of Northern Ireland, a sheltered bay of considerable charm near Bushmills that provides a…

Cushendall Antrim Cushendall Antrim County Londonderry • BT44 0SA

Cushendall is the principal village of the Glens of Antrim, a settlement at the confluence of three of the nine Antrim glens whose combination of the colourful painted shopfronts…

Scrabo Tower Newtownards Scrabo Tower Newtownards County Down • BT23 4SJ

Scrabo Tower is a conspicuous Victorian monument on Scrabo Hill above Newtownards in County Down, a 41-metre castellated tower built in 1857 as a memorial to the third Marquess of…

Bushmills Village Bushmills Village County Londonderry • BT57 8QH

Bushmills is a small village in County Antrim on the north coast of Northern Ireland, famous throughout the world as the home of the Old Bushmills Distillery, the oldest licensed…

Dark Hedges Dark Hedges County Londonderry • BT53 8TP

The Dark Hedges near Stranocum in County Antrim is one of the most photographed natural features in Ireland, a beech avenue of approximately 150 years old whose intertwining…

Slieve Donard Slieve Donard BT33 0PT

Slieve Donard at 849 metres is the highest peak in Ulster and the highest of the Mourne Mountains, a granite summit with exceptional views that dominate the skyline above…

Rathlin Island Antrim Rathlin Island Antrim County Londonderry • BT54 6RT

Rathlin Island is the only inhabited offshore island in Northern Ireland, a L-shaped basalt island approximately eight kilometres long lying six miles off the Antrim coast near…

Cavehill Belfast Cavehill Belfast County Antrim • BT15 5GJ

Cave Hill above north Belfast is the most distinctive landmark in the Belfast skyline, a basalt escarpment rising to 368 metres at McArt's Fort that overlooks the city and Belfast…

Fair Head Antrim Fair Head Antrim BT54 6SA

Fair Head on the northeast Antrim coast is the most dramatic headland in Northern Ireland, a great cliff of basalt columns approximately 180 metres high above the North Channel…

Strangford Lough Strangford Lough Ards and North Down District Council • BT30 7LS

Strangford Lough in County Down is the largest sea lough in the British Isles, a complex inlet of approximately 150 square kilometres connected to the Irish Sea through the…

Sperrins Mountains Tyrone Sperrins Mountains Tyrone BT79 7SL

The Sperrin Mountains in County Tyrone are the largest upland area in Northern Ireland, a broad plateau of rounded moorland summits covering over 400 square kilometres between the…