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Bushmills was
the last stop for
carriages from Belfast before the final
push to the Causeway. Passengers
got out to revive themselves here at
the world’s oldest legal whiskey
distillery, in business since 1608.
Tours and tastings, café, shops. |
The Causeway proper is a mass of
40,000 stone columns that form steps
leading from the cliff foot and
disappearing under the sea. Most of
the columns are 6-sided and some are
40 ft tall. From the visitor centre a twomile
circular walk takes you down to
the Grand Causeway, on past majestic
stone galleries and weird formation |
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The name means the rock in the road
(or casting). For centuries salmon
fishermen threw a rope bridge across
the scary gap each spring to give
access to their fishery on the island.
Now they do it with helicopters.
There’s always a steady stream of
visitors keen to cross over the
bridge. The trick is: don’t look down...... |
Teetering on the cliff edge, this
romantic ruin was the 16th-century
stronghold of the MacDonnells, a
Scottish clan. They had a secret
entrance through a sea cave. After a
Spanish Armada treasure ship was
wrecked in 1588 Sorley Boy
MacDonnell got money to modernise
the castle. |
