A small round temple, modelled on the temples of Vesta in Italy, perched on the very edge of a cliff above Downhill Strand, built in 1785 as a library for the eccentric Earl Bishop of Derry. It is one of the most photographed sights in Northern Ireland.
The ruined mansion of Downhill and its gardens are in the grounds. The beach below stretches for miles.
Around 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, mostly hexagonal, stepping down into the sea on the north coast of Northern Ireland, created by volcanic a…
A rope bridge strung 30 metres above the sea between the cliffs and the tiny island of Carrick-a-Rede, first built by salmon fishermen over 250 years…
A striking museum on the site of the shipyard where the Titanic was built, telling the story of the ship from its construction in Belfast to its sink…
A neoclassical house on the shore of Strangford Lough, with one of the finest gardens in Europe, created by Edith, Lady Londonderry, in the 1920s.
One of the finest neoclassical houses in Ireland, designed by James Wyatt for the Earl of Belmore in the 1790s, with Portland stone brought from Engl…
A Georgian house with rococo plasterwork set against the Cuilcagh Mountains, home of the Earls of Enniskillen.
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