Northern Ireland
We’ve compiled the best of the best in Northern Ireland - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
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We’ve compiled the best of the best in Northern Ireland - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
In 1934 this spectacularly baronial castle, built for the Marquess of Donegall in 1865, was passed to the Belfast Corporation. Although the...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesOn the riverbank stands the visitor center of Belleek Pottery Ltd., producers of Parian china, a fine, eggshell-thin, ivory porcelain shaped...Read More
Adrenalin junkies love the rope bridge—off the coast at Ballintoy in Larrybane—which spans a 60-foot gap between the mainland and tiny Carrick...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesBuilt atop a rock ledge in 1180 by John de Courcy, provincial Ulster's first Anglo-Norman invader, Carrickfergus Castle is still in good shape...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesWith a 500-acre park, an artificial lake, a Neoclassical temple, and a vast house in Bath stone magically set on the slopes running down to...Read More
Built of Portland stone between 1898 and 1906 and modeled on St. Paul's Cathedral in London, this Renaissance Revival–style edifice—the cynosure...Read More
Belfast is blessed with some exceptional pubs but the Crown is one of the city's glories. Owned by the National Trust (the U.K.'s official...Read More
One of Belfast's hottest tourist tickets, this jail, designed by Charles Lanyon, opened in 1846 and held more than 500 prisoners at its peak...Read More
View Tours and ActivitiesOff the main A2 route, the road between Cushendall and Cushendun turns into one of a Tour-de-France hilliness, so cyclists beware. Your reward...Read More
With the transfer of the 1,100-year-old Mourne granite High Cross as the centerpiece of an elaborate extension in 2015, this museum is gaining...Read More
Less known than some showier estates, this three-story Anglo-Irish mansion was built around 1730 for John Cole, father of the 1st Earl of Enniskillen...Read More
Northern Ireland's only UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Giant's Causeway is a mass of almost 40,000 mostly hexagonal pillars of volcanic basalt...Read More
Head to this natural preserve to explore the most beautiful and unsettled of Antrim's glens. Glenariff was christened "Little Switzerland" by...Read More
The rejuvenated Victorian Guildhall, fresh from a three-year £10-million makeover, is an outstanding example of the city's ornate architecture...Read More
With its distinctive grayish-yellow brick, this library—the oldest subscription library in Ireland—is a comfortable place to escape the bustle...Read More
A dynamic three-year makeover, costing £7.5 million and completed in 2015, has opened a new chapter in the history of Mount Stewart, the stately...Read More
The first Protestant cathedral built in the United Kingdom after the Reformation, this houses the oldest and largest bells in Ireland (dating...Read More
This world-class attraction headlines a "Titanic Experience" exhibition along with showcasing nine linked interpretative galleries that outline...Read More
The excellent Ulster American Folk Park re-creates a Tyrone village of two centuries ago, a log-built American settlement of the same period...Read More
Devoted to the province's social history, the excellent Ulster Folk and Transport Museum vividly brings Northern Ireland's past to life. The...Read More
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