Ballycastle

Ballycastle (Irish: Baile an Chaistil, "town of the castle") is a town in Northern Ireland, on the North Antrim coast.

Understand

Get in

Unfortunately, there is no rail link, the nearest station is along the coast at Portrush. There are direct buses from Belfast and Coleriane

By ferry

Passenger and vehicle ferries run from Rathlin Island around 5 times per day. There are restrictions on vehicles.

Get around

See
  • 🌍 Carrick-a-rede Rope Bridge, 119a Whitepark Road, Ballintoy, BT54 6LS (Near Ballintoy, 5 miles West of Ballycastle.), ☎ +44 28 2076-9839, e-mail: . 10:00-19:00 in summer, shorter hours in winter. Cross the sligtly scary rope bridge to Carrick-a-rede island. On some days it can be quite dangerous although now safe as staff monitor it. So before it gets really windy(fun) they close it. You can run across the bridge if you wish, but it's recommended that you wait until no one else is on it, you aren't allowed to shake the bridge, but people have been known to. After crossing the bridge, there are beautiful greens and it is a spot for great pictures. The bridge closes before sun-down, so no matter how romantic it might seem to watch the sun set on a beautiful island, it gets closed too soon! On a good day, the coast of Scotland is clearly visible, so there's advantages to going during premium light hours. Additionally, the bridge is only open in the summer months, they take it down each winter, and before it's put up (in March(?)) they check it for safety. National Trust tearoom. £5. 
  • 🌍 Bonamargy Friary. Franciscan foundation established in 1485  
  • 🌍 Kinbane Castle. ruins on narrow limestone headland (updated Dec 2016)

Do
  • Coast Road. 
  • beach. 
  • 🌍 Fair Head. Rock Climbing  
  • Cliff Walks. 
  • Sea Fishing. 

Buy

Ballycastle is full of traditional shops, there are very few if any high street brands.

Eat

Dulse (an edible seaweed) and yellowman (a honeycomb toffee) are local specialities.

  • 🌍 Thyme & Co. Cafe, 5 Quay Road, BT54 6BJ. Tue – Fri: 08:30 – 16:30, Sat: 09:30 – 16:30. Great frys and Lunches. 
  • The Sweetie Jar, Quay Road. sweet shop also selling ice creams 

Sleep

There are numerous bed and breakfasts in the area, one youth hostel and the marine hotel.

Go next

gollark: Have a "president-satisfying tax" of course!
gollark: This is also an incentive to run the economy better, as the only valuable metric for a country is how well the economy happens to be operating at the time, as it is not mostly random noise etc.
gollark: Just pay them 10% of GDP.
gollark: Is that helping your case?
gollark: (rule by me myself and lack of aardvarks)
This article is issued from Wikivoyage. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.