cliffs antrim

The Giant's Causeway is a World Heritage Site, famous for the beauty and extent of its extraordinary geological features which can easily be reached and enjoyed....

At the western end of Rathlin Island, sheer cliffs rise more than 100 metres above raised beaches of rounded cobbles, while towering stacks of rock stand guard just off the shore. The best time of the year to visit Kebble is the height of the breeding season for seabirds, early May to mid-July when the rough faces for the cliffs and rocky islands are crowded with thousands of breeding seabirds. Guillemots, razorbills, kittiwakes and fulmars raise their young on bare ledges, while puffins nest...

Islandmagee is not an island but a 7-mile long peninsula. On the east side wild basalt cliffs called Gobbins were the scene of a gruesome incident in 1641 when soldiers from the Carrickfergus garrison threw the local inhabitants into the sea....