Local Places of Interest

Cranny Waterfall - Walking distance from Redbrae Holiday Cottages. Picture on left.

Glenariff Forest Park - Ideal setting for country walks.

Slemish Mountain - With small exhibition centre on local geography, history and folkllore of St Patrick.

Arthur Ancestral Cottage - Restored eighteenth century farmhouse with open flax-straw thatched roof

Ossian's Grave - A neolithic court grave. Ossian was the son of Finn Mac Cool. (Ulster folklore.)

Carrickfergus Castle - Built in 1180. Ireland's best preserved "real" castle.

Dunluce Castle - A romantic ruin clinging to a crag almost surrounded by the sea, with a visitors centre.

Carrick-a-rede Rope Bridge - Fanous tourist attraction. 80 ft above the sea and joining a cliff to a percipitous island.

Old Bushmills Distillery - The world's oldest legal whiskey distillery, established in 1608.

Carnfunnock Country Park - Includes maze in the shape of Northern Ireland.

Patterson's Spade Mill - the last surviving water driven spade mill in Ireland.

Ulster Folk Museum - Open air museum representing town and country life in Ulster around 1910.

Rathlin Island - 50 minute trip by car ferry from Ballycastle.

Giants Causeway - Ireland's most famous tourist attraction.

The Nine Glens of Antrim.

Glenarm

Glencloy

Glenariff

Glenballyeamon

Glenann

Glencorp

Glendun

Glenshesk

Glentaisie