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. Exotic plants thrive in the mild climate, and the Dodo Terrace is decorated with stone animals representing her friends.
The house holds the painting Hambletonian by George Stubbs. The lake walk and the Temple of the Winds give lovely views.
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…
An 18th-century house with two different fronts, one Classical and one Gothic, because Lord and Lady Bangor couldn't agree on a style.
Ireland's first nature reserve, a system of sand dunes 6,000 years old at the foot of the Mourne Mountains, with boardwalks leading to a long sandy b…
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…
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 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 librar…
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