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The Antrim Coast is sometimes known as the Causeway Coast after the world famous Giant's Causeway, located between the towns of Bushmills - home of the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery - and

The nine Glens of Antrim, at the very northern tip of Northern Ireland, have been acclaimed, as only the Irish can, in song and verse for centuries.

Glenarm, the ancient and still present home of the McDonnell clan; Glencloy, with its lattice of stone dykes; Glenariff, with its ladder farms and waterfalls, described by William Makepeace Thackeray as "Switzerland in miniature;" bare Glenballyeamon, with its fragments of ancient forts; Glenaan, famous for the grave of the warrior poet, Ossian; Glencorp and Glentaisie, with their tidy hill farms; Glendun, with its bridges and fords and Glenshesk, wild and unspoiled.

Each glen and village has its own character and, remarkably, sometimes even its own accent of speech, dating from the times before a coastal road existed and all contact was via boat.

The Antrim Coast is sometimes known as the Causeway Coast after the world famous Giant's Causeway, located between the towns of Bushmills - home of the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery - and

e McDonnell clan; Glencloy, with its lattice of stone dykes; Glenariff, with its ladder farms and waterfalls, described by William Makepeace Thackeray as "Switzerland in miniature;" bare Glenballyeamon, with its fragments of ancient forts; Glenaan, famous for the grave of the warrior poet, Ossian; Glencorp and Glentaisie, with their tidy hill farms; Glendun, with its bridges and fords and Glenshesk, wild and unspoiled.

Each glen and village has its own character and, remarkably, sometimes even its own accent of speech, dating from the times before a coastal road existed and all contact was via boat.

The Antrim Coast is sometimes known as the Causeway Coast after the world famous Giant's Causeway, located between the towns of Bushmills - home of the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery - and

th its fragments of ancient forts; Glenaan, famous for the grave of the warrior poet, Ossian; Glencorp and Glentaisie, with their tidy hill farms; Glendun, with its bridges and fords and Glenshesk, wild and unspoiled.

Each glen and village has its own character and, remarkably, sometimes even its own accent of speech, dating from the times before a coastal road existed and all contact was via boat.

The Antrim Coast is sometimes known as the Causeway Coast after the world famous Giant's Causeway, located between the towns of Bushmills - home of the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery - and

d unspoiled.

Each glen and village has its own character and, remarkably, sometimes even its own accent of speech, dating from the times before a coastal road existed and all contact was via boat.

The Antrim Coast is sometimes known as the Causeway Coast after the world famous Giant's Causeway, located between the towns of Bushmills - home of the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery - and

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The Antrim Coast is sometimes known as the Causeway Coast after the world famous Giant's Causeway, located between the towns of Bushmills - home of the world's oldest licensed whiskey distillery - and Ballycastle, the commercial hub of the whole area.

The Giant's Causeway consists of thousands of strangely symmetrical basalt columns forming a promontory that wave action has eroded into three distinct sections: the Grand, Middle and Little Causeways. The Causeway is clearly of volcanic origin, but legend has it that it was built by Irish giant, Finn MacCool, in order to step across the Irish sea to do battle with a rival Scottish giant. Similar geological formations can be seen across the water in Fingal's Cave on the island of Staffa.

Another interesting geological phenomenon in County Antrim is Loughareema, the famous vanishing lake. One day the lake can be brimming with water and full of fish. The next day it can be totally drained, as if an aquatic leprechaun had pulled a giant plug. Lougha