Local Attractions
The Bushtown Hotel is the perfect location for anyone wanting to explore any of the areas of outstanding natural beauty that is on offer along the world famous North Coast. Visit www.northcoastni.com for more information.
The majestic cliffs of the causeway and inaccessible bays combine with myth and legend to inspire but look carefully amongst this breathtaking landscape and you will find echoes of another reality. Isolated ruins, kelp walls and shoreline fields, bear testament to a harder life of subsistence farming and fishing endured by past generations. Dotted around the coast you'll find small sheltered harbours and slipways, fishermen's cottages and rock formations that you will never forget.
Spanning a chasm some eighty feet deep is the famous Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge, it's construction once consisted of a single rope hand rail and widely spaced slats which the fishermen would traverse across with salmon caught off the island. The single handrail was subsequently replaced by a two hand railed bridge, the currentcaged bridge was installed by the National Trust during Easter of 2000 as a further safety measure.
Bushmills was formerly known as Portcaman, it developed with the water powered industries of the 1600's to became one of the main centre's for corn, flax, spade and whiskey production. The river once powered seven mills along its stretch through the village and one of the first mills in County Antrim existed here.