Montalto House is located in Bushmills, on the beautiful Causeway Coast. We are close to many famous landmarks and beautiful scenic views.
We've selected some of our favourite nearby local attractions.
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Giants Causeway |
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This World Heritage Site enjoys international acclaim for its outstanding natural beauty, significant scientific interest and accumulation of age-old traditions. Resulting from lava eruptions over 60 million years ago, the Giant's Causeway has attracted visitors for centuries and many rich traditions have grown in explanation of its strange rock formations. Its great variety of habitats support a high diversity of plants and animals that may be easily enjoyed from the North Antrim coastal path. Distance from Montalto House Bed & Breakfast - 2.5 miles
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Bushmills Distillery |
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The Old Bushmills Distillery is the World's oldest licensed Whiskey Distillery. King James I granted the original license to distil 'Acqua Vitae' in April 1608. Irish Malt Whiskey has been distilled in Bushmills for four hundred years. Distance from Montalto House Bed & Breakfast - 1 mile |
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Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge |
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Carrick-a-Rede boasts unrivalled coastal scenery and an exhilarating rope bridge experience. Traditionally fishermen erected the bridge to Carrick-a-Rede island over a 30m-deep and 20m-wide chasm to check their salmon nets. Today visitors are drawn here simply to take the rope bridge challenge! Distance from Montalto House Bed & Breakfast - 7.5 miles |
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Dunluce Castle |
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This spectacular castle-crowned crag on the famous North Antrim Coast was shaped when the sea cut deep into the land, exploiting cracks on either side of the rock. Dunluce was set to seige by the British in the 16th Century. One night during a storm, the kitchen of the castle broke off and plunged into the sea, killing all the cooks and kitchenhands. Dunluce Castle is thought by many to be the most picturesque and romantic of Irish castles. Distance from Montalto House Bed & Breakfast - 1.5 miles
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Rathlin Island |
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Spectacular views of Northern Ireland's largest colony of seabirds - puffins, razorbills, guillemots, kittiwakes and fulmares, and free access to Kebble National Nature Reserve (managed by Department of the Environment) at all times. In 1898, under Marconi's supervision, the first wireless transmissions took place between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle on the mainland. Robert Bruce watched the spider "try, try and try again" from Rathlin's cave. Distance from Montalto House - 13 miles to ferry sailing from Ballycastle |
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Glens of Antrim |
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The nine famous glens, endowed with evocative names and blessed with a diversity of landscape are also rich in history, in folklore and in the natural beauty that is a world away from the frantic bustle of modern life. Entwined with the rich history and the traditions of the communities within the glens is the constant sense of a dual landscape; one of breathtaking natural drama and beauty that opens up as you negotiate the hills and bends and another, more hidden landscape of mists and myths, of legends and folklore and tales of giants, fairies and other wonderful creatures. Distance from Montalto House - 20 miles
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