The road from Strangford to Ardglass is a beguiling one with changing views around every corner. Just a short distance from the town on the right amongst the trees is the…
The Seal Colony on the Cloghy Rocks
The Peace Maze
A peace maze in Castlewellan Forest Park has made it into the Guinness Book of Records 2004. It is now recognised as being both the largest and the longest permanent…
Historic Callan River
The little-known Rival to the River Boyne ‘Flow gently, sweet Callan, flow gently along, And down by your green banks I’ll sing a sweet song’ Not many Ulster people are…
The Giants Ring
Just four miles south of Belfast city centre and close to Shaw’s bridge, in the townland of Ballyleeson stands the Giants Ring one of the finest, prehistoric fortifications of this kind…
The Fairy Hawthorn
Commoner of the Wood The White Hawthorn grows in hedges throughout our fair land, blooming come May. Known in ancient Ireland as ‘the commoner of the wood’, the hardwood of…
The Magic Hills
Along the rolling hills of Tyrone, there is a small stretch of road, where things are not as they seem to be. Going up the hill, a car rolls upwards…
Belfast City Hall
Belfast’s Symbolic Heart. It was in 1888 that our city fathers first proposed the idea of a City Hall following the decision by Queen Victoria to grant Belfast City status.…
Bushmills Whiskey
A number of countries compete today to win the allegiance of the world’s whiskey drinkers. A small number of them claim a long tradition, but none of them can equal…
Lord Kelvin
Lord Kelvin, the world is indebted to him. How many people entering Botanic Gardens pause to think of the eminent and worthy son of Belfast? Whose statue adorns the entrance?…
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
Europe’s oldest suspension bridge. It is well signposted just 3 miles north-east of Ballintoy and a few miles down the causeway coast. Up until a few years ago, the approach to…