The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #33585   Message #460129
Posted By: alison
10-May-01 - 10:55 PM
Thread Name: Irish Mudcatters?
Subject: RE: Irish Mudcatters?
Yes please Jimmy... and if you can't manage rock... a nice bit of potato bread would do too.....

add my vote to the Antrim Coast Road..... the Larne end of it isn't as dramatic as it is at the top.....

take a detour to Glenarriff..... there is a restaurant (Laragh Lodge.. if I remember rightly) before you get to the park.. where you can sneak into the waterfall section... go round the back and follow the "boardwalks"... some beautiful falls........

heading on up.... Carrick -a-rede rope bridge is worth a look.. but a bit of a hike to get to,

Giant's Causeway is fantastic..... it's a hike too.. but there is a bus.....

my favourite place still has to be Kenbane castle just west of Ballycastle, (great butcher on the main street.. wonderful sausages.. look for the trophies in the window)

Kenbane is a ruin at the foot of a cliff on an island.. on a good day you get views to Rathlin Island in the background.........

Dunluce is a great castle.......

Portrush and Portstewart are your usual touristy towns.... but if you go to Coleraine.. go out the other side and head for Castlerock (I lived up there for the last 3 years before I moved to Australia)..... and walk through the "Black Glen" to the "Mussenden Temple"... again superb views over Castlerock and Downhill beaches.. and the whole of the Bann estuary......

and seeing as you're already up there.... take the Bishop's Road.. from the Downhill Hotel.... up over the top of Binevenagh mountain... and head to Derry.....

go through Derry and get to Griannan of Aileach (off the Letterkenny Road).. simply the best celtic site I have ever been to....

that should keep you accupied for a few days.... that's the thing with Ireland.. it looks very small on a map but there is so much to see........

slainte

alison