Attractions
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
Ballintoy Harbour, Causeway Coast and Glens
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…
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Natural features
Giant's Causeway
Bushmills, Causeway Coast and Glens
Around 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, mostly hexagonal, stepping down into the sea on the north coast of Northern Ireland, created by volcanic a…
Natural features
Mount Stewart
Greyabbey, Ards and North Down
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.
Historic sites
Mussenden Temple and Downhill Demesne
Castlerock, Causeway Coast and Glens
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…
Historic sites
Castle Coole
Enniskillen, Fermanagh and Omagh
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…
Historic sites
Castle Ward
Killyleagh, Newry, Mourne and Down
An 18th-century house with two different fronts, one Classical and one Gothic, because Lord and Lady Bangor couldn't agree on a style.
Natural features
Crom Estate
Lisnaskea, Fermanagh and Omagh
A peaceful estate of woods, islands and shores on Upper Lough Erne, one of the most important nature conservation areas in Northern Ireland.
Historic sites
Florence Court
Enniskillen, Fermanagh and Omagh
A Georgian house with rococo plasterwork set against the Cuilcagh Mountains, home of the Earls of Enniskillen.
Natural features
Murlough National Nature Reserve
Newcastle, Newry, Mourne and Down
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…
Attractions
Titanic Belfast
Belfast
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…