Located at the foot of the Glenshane Pass, this small village with narrow streets has a is home to a 10th Century church built on the site of a 6th Century monastery. The old church includes a 12th Century door with a crucifixion scene carved on the large lintel.
Local places of interest to visitors include the Tirkane Sweat House (0044 28 71 267 284), which is an early type of sauna used in the 18th and 19th Centuries and only a few remain in Ireland.
The memory of the local traditional linen is kept alive with factory tours around the William Clark and Sons linen factory (0044 28 79 547 200), which takes in a dam which used to power the old linen mill.
Knockcloghrim Windmill is a local point of interest, which is now fully restored and was in operation until 1895 when strong winds blew the sails off. The interior houses local history exhibits and a viewing gallery.
The gradualist approach has a lot of advantages when taking on a large garden and that is exactly the way the Glynns went about transforming their two and a half acres after they moved into their Victorian home 27 years ago.
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Galgorm Castle Golf Club is an exciting mixture of the new and the old. This 18 hole, 6736 yards par 72 Championship course is set in 220 acres of beautiful, mature parkland located in the heart of County Antrim. It is overlooked by Galgorm Castl ...
Ballealy Cottage is a 19th Century deerkeeper's cottage on the Shane's Castle estate, beside Lough Neagh, Co. Antrim. Set in a woodland by a stream, Ballealy presents a fairytale appearance of irregular gables and half-hipped roofs, edged with or ...
Named after the river that runs through Ballymena, the Braid weaves together history, arts and culture alongside contemporary conference, tourism and civic facilities on a site that has been for centuries the centre of local civic life.
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Ardtara is an elegantly decorated Victorian country house with well-proportioned rooms, antique furnishings and fresh flowers - and, with a choice of churches in the area and wedding blessings possible at Ardtara, it makes a lovely wedding venues ...
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