Northern Ireland Top Attractions, Region by Region
Most visitors to Northern Ireland see Belfast and the Causeway Coast and go home thinking that was all of it. It is not. From the Mourne Mountains in the south to the lakes of Fermanagh in the west, the country is small enough to cross in two hours and full of places most travellers never reach.
I am a guide, and I spend my working weeks on these roads. This guide sorts the Northern Ireland top attractions by region, so you can see what is near where you are staying and plan your days around it. For every region you will find the places worth your time and the practical detail for each one: the address, the opening times, what it costs and whether you need to book.
If you only want the shortlist, my ranked must-visit attractions in Northern Ireland has the ten I would put first. This guide is for everyone who wants to know what else is out there, and the best places to visit in Northern Ireland wherever you happen to be.
What Is in This Guide
Belfast, the Capital and Its Story
Belfast is where most trips start, and the city has more Northern Ireland tourist attractions packed into a few square miles than anywhere else in the country. The centre is walkable end to end in twenty minutes, so two days covers it well and you do not need a car.
Titanic Belfast
The Titanic was designed, built and launched right here, and Titanic Belfast stands on the slipways she slid down in 1911. The building is shaped like four ship’s prows standing on end, the same height as the hull, and from the road it is the first thing you notice in the Titanic Quarter.
Inside, nine galleries take you from the Belfast of 1900 through the shipyard, the launch, the fit out and the maiden voyage, down to the night she sank and on to the finding of the wreck. There is a ride through a recreation of the shipyard gantries, and the sections on the men who built her are the parts most people remember. Your ticket includes SS Nomadic, the tender that carried first class passengers out to Titanic at Cherbourg. Allow two to three hours.
Visitor information
Opening times. Seasonal, opening between 8:30am and 9:50am and closing between 5pm and 7:30pm depending on the month. Last admission is one hour forty minutes before closing.
Guide prices. Adult £24.95 online and £26.95 on the door, child aged 5 to 15 £11 online, family pass £62 online. SS Nomadic is included.
Where it is. 1 Olympic Way, Queen’s Road, Titanic Quarter, Belfast BT3 9EP. Book a timed slot online.
Our Titanic Belfast guide has the full detail.
Crumlin Road Gaol
Crumlin Road Gaol was designed by Sir Charles Lanyon and took its first prisoners in 1846. It stayed in use for 150 years and closed in 1996. Seventeen men were executed inside its walls.
The guided tour takes you through the wings and the cells, into the condemned man’s cell and the execution chamber, and along the tunnel that runs under the road to the courthouse opposite. It is told straight, without any sensationalism, and that is exactly why it works.
Visitor information
Opening times. Monday to Friday 10:30am to 3:30pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am to 4pm. Tours last 60 to 90 minutes.
Guide prices. Adult £17.50 online and £18.50 at the door, child £10.50 online, family £49 online.
Where it is. 53 to 55 Crumlin Road, Belfast BT14 6ST, about ten minutes north of the city centre.
Belfast City Hall
Belfast City Hall was completed in 1906 to mark Belfast becoming a city, and the whole centre is laid out around it. It is built in Portland stone with a dome you see in every photograph of the city, and it is free to walk into.
Inside, a free exhibition tells the history of Belfast, and the grounds hold the Titanic Memorial Garden, which lists everyone who died, crew and passengers together. The guided tour takes you into the council chamber and the great hall, and it is worth the few pounds.
Visitor information
Opening times. The grounds are open daily. The exhibition and tours run to City Hall’s own schedule.
Guide prices. Grounds and exhibition free. Guided tours £6 for an adult, first come first served at reception.
Where it is. Donegall Square, Belfast BT1 5GS, in the middle of the city centre.
St George’s Market
St George’s Market is the last Victorian covered market in Belfast, built between 1890 and 1896, and it only opens three days a week. Friday is the variety market, Saturday is food and craft with live music through the middle of the day, and Sunday leans to craft, art and local food.
It is five minutes on foot from City Hall, and a breakfast from the stalls on a Saturday morning is one of the best ways to start a day in the city.
Visitor information
Opening times. Friday 8am to 2pm, Saturday 9am to 3pm, Sunday 10am to 3pm. Closed Monday to Thursday.
Guide prices. Free to enter.
Where it is. 12 to 20 East Bridge Street, Belfast BT1 3NQ.
The Ulster Museum and Botanic Gardens
The Ulster Museum sits inside the Botanic Gardens in the Queen’s Quarter and costs nothing to enter, which makes it the best wet weather answer in Belfast. The collections run from the dinosaurs to art, and the history floors take you from the earliest people here to the Troubles.
The gardens outside were laid out in 1828. Walk through to the Palm House, one of the earliest curvilinear glasshouses anywhere, and the Tropical Ravine beside it, a sunken glasshouse you look down into.
Visitor information
Opening times. Ulster Museum Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm, closed Monday. The gardens are open daily from dawn until dusk.
Guide prices. Free.
Where it is. Stranmillis Road, Botanic Gardens, Belfast BT9 5AB, about twenty minutes on foot from City Hall.
Our things to do in Belfast guide has the city in full.
The Causeway Coast, the North Antrim Shore
This is the stretch of coast that brings most visitors to Northern Ireland, about an hour and a quarter north of Belfast. Everything here sits within half an hour of the Giant’s Causeway, so it works as one full day or two easy ones, with Bushmills or Ballycastle as a base.
The Giant’s Causeway
Some 40,000 basalt columns step down into the sea here, formed when lava cooled and cracked about sixty million years ago. Legend says the giant Finn McCool built them as a path to Scotland. It is the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Northern Ireland, and the place visitors remember above all others.
The stones themselves are open land and free to walk to. What you pay for is the Visitor Experience, the audio guide and the car park. Walk down by the road, and if your legs allow, come back up by the cliff path for the view from the top. Give it at least two hours.
Visitor information
Opening times. The stones are open at all times. The Visitor Experience keeps seasonal hours, generally 9am to 6pm in summer and 9am to 5pm in winter.
Guide prices. From around £15 to £16 adult, £7.50 to £8 child, cheaper booked online. Parking is included in the ticket.
Where it is. 44 Causeway Road, Bushmills, BT57 8SU.
Our Giant’s Causeway guide has the full detail.
Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge
Carrick-a-Rede is sixty six feet of plank and wire strung between the cliff and a small rocky island, with a hundred feet of clear air down to the sea. Salmon fishermen first put a bridge across here to reach their nets, and the bridge still moves under your feet the whole way over.
The walk out along the cliff to the bridge is half the pleasure, with Rathlin Island and, on a clear day, Scotland across the water. It closes in high wind, and entry is by timed ticket, so book before you travel.
Visitor information
Opening times. Daily, roughly 9am to 4:30pm, with the car park open 9am to 6pm. Times shift with the season.
Guide prices. Adult £16, child aged 5 to 17 £8, family £40. Parking is included. Booking essential.
Where it is. 119a Whitepark Road, Ballintoy, BT54 6LS, off the B15 coast road.
Our Carrick-a-Rede guide has the full detail.
Dunluce Castle
Dunluce Castle sits on a basalt stack above the sea, joined to the mainland by a bridge, and it was the seat of the MacDonnells, the Earls of Antrim. The story everyone remembers is the kitchen: as it is told, a storm in 1639 brought down the piece of cliff it stood on, and it fell into the sea with servants inside.
Inside the walls you can walk through the remains of the great house and out across the site of the lost town beside it. If the small car park is full, the Magheracross viewpoint a quarter of a mile towards Portrush has the best view of the castle anyway.
Visitor information
Opening times. Daily 9:30am to 5pm, last admission 30 minutes before closing, closing at 4pm in December and January.
Guide prices. Adult £6, child aged 5 to 17 £4, student and over 65 £4.50, family £18. Tickets on arrival.
Where it is. 87 Dunluce Road, Bushmills, BT57 8UY.
Our Dunluce Castle guide has the full detail.
The Dark Hedges
The Dark Hedges is an avenue of beech trees on the Bregagh Road, planted by James Stuart around 1775, and over two centuries the branches have grown together into a tunnel. Game of Thrones used it as the Kingsroad, and it became one of the most photographed places in Northern Ireland.
The road has been closed to traffic since 2017, so you park and walk it. Early morning, before the coaches arrive, is when it looks the way it does in the photographs.
Visitor information
Opening times. Always open.
Guide prices. Free.
Where it is. Bregagh Road, Stranocum, BT53 8PX, between Armoy and Stranocum. Toilets and food at the Hedges Hotel nearby.
Our Dark Hedges guide has the full detail.
Old Bushmills Distillery
Old Bushmills is one of the oldest working distilleries in Ireland, in the village of Bushmills, ten minutes from the Giant’s Causeway. The tour takes you through the distillery past the copper pot stills, and it ends with a tasting, with a non alcoholic option for drivers.
It fits easily into a Causeway day. Book ahead from May to September, and remember tastings do not start until 11am.
Visitor information
Opening times. Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm, Sunday 11am to 5pm.
Guide prices. Around £20 for an adult on the standard tour. Card only. No under 8s on the tour.
Where it is. 2 Distillery Road, Bushmills, BT57 8XH.
Our Old Bushmills Distillery guide has the full detail.
Our Causeway Coastal Route guide follows the whole coast.
The Antrim Coast and the Glens of Antrim
Between Belfast and the Causeway, the coast road runs along the foot of the nine Glens of Antrim, and it is one of the finest drives in Europe. Most people race through it to reach the Causeway. It deserves a day of its own.
Carrickfergus Castle
Carrickfergus Castle has stood guard over Belfast Lough since the Normans began it in the 1170s, and it is one of the best preserved medieval castles in Ireland. It saw sieges for centuries and was still used by the army into the twentieth century.
It is half an hour from Belfast, so it makes the first stop on the coast road north. An hour is enough to walk the walls and climb the keep.
Visitor information
Opening times. Easter to September 9:30am to 4:30pm, October to Easter 9am to 4pm. Closed on Mondays, except bank holidays.
Guide prices. Adult £6, child aged 5 to 17 £4, family £18.
Where it is. Marine Highway, Carrickfergus, BT38 7BG, with free parking.
The Gobbins
The Gobbins is a cliff path of bridges, tunnels and stairways cut into the basalt cliffs of Islandmagee, just above the waves. It first opened in 1902 and was rebuilt in recent years, and it is walked only with a guide.
It takes a good part of a morning, it is weather dependent, and it is not for anyone uneasy with heights or steps. Book ahead and wear proper footwear.
Visitor information
Opening times. From 1 March to the first weekend in January. The visitor centre opens daily from 8:30am to 5pm.
Guide prices. Adult £23.50, child under 16 £17.50, family of four £52.50. Guided tours only, booked ahead.
Where it is. The Gobbins Visitor Centre, Middle Road, Islandmagee, BT40 3SL.
Glenarm Castle Walled Garden
Glenarm is the first village of the Glens, and Glenarm Castle has been the home of the MacDonnell family, the Earls of Antrim, since the 17th century. Its walled garden was named Garden of the Year by Historic Houses in 2023, the first in Northern Ireland to win it.
The tea room inside the garden is a lovely place for a coffee on the way north, and the woodland walk runs along the river beside it.
Visitor information
Opening times. Daily 10am to 5pm, last entry 4:15pm.
Guide prices. Adult £10, over 60s and students £8.50, ages 12 to 17 £5, under 12s free.
Where it is. 2 Castle Lane, Glenarm, BT44 0BQ, with parking on site.
Carnlough Harbour
Carnlough is a small limestone harbour built in 1854 to ship stone from the quarry above the village, and the stone steps on the quay are where Arya Stark climbed out of the canal in Braavos in Game of Thrones.
The car park and the toilets at the harbour are free, which makes it a natural stop on the coast road, and Twilight Coffee on Harbour Road does very nice fresh ground coffee, with scones and things like that.
Visitor information
Opening times. Open access all year.
Guide prices. Free, with free parking and toilets at the harbour.
Where it is. Harbour Road, Carnlough, BT44 0EU.
Our Carnlough Harbour guide has the full detail.
Glenariff Forest Park
Glenariff is the best known of the nine Glens of Antrim, and the Waterfall Walkway runs down through a wooded gorge past a string of waterfalls. It is the best short walk in Northern Ireland, and it sits just off the coast road at Waterfoot.
Wear proper shoes, because the boardwalk is often wet and the steps back up are steep. The longer trails take you out above the glen with views down to the sea.
Visitor information
Opening times. Open to walkers 24 hours a day. The car park gates open by 8am and lock at dusk.
Guide prices. No entry ticket. Parking is £5 per car.
Where it is. 98 Glenariff Road, Ballymena, BT44 0QX, on the A43.
Our Glenariff Forest Park guide has the full detail.
Derry and the North West
Derry is about an hour and a half from Belfast, and its walls are still complete, with a modern story told honestly in the Bogside below them. On the way there, the north coast gives you one of the most photographed buildings in the country.
The Derry walls
Derry’s walls were built between 1613 and 1619, and they are the only complete city walls left in Ireland. They have never been breached, not even in the 105 day siege of 1689, which is why the city is still called the Maiden City.
You can walk the whole circuit, about a mile, for nothing, and from the top you look down on the Bogside, the Guildhall and the River Foyle. Martin McCrossan City Tours runs a walking tour that tells the story properly, and you just turn up.
Visitor information
The walls. Free and open at all times. Shipquay Gate, beside the Guildhall, is the easiest place to climb up.
Guided walk. Martin McCrossan City Tours leaves from 11 Carlisle Road, BT48 6JJ, at 10am, 12 noon, 2pm and 4pm from March to November. £6 per adult, children 12 and under free.
The Guildhall and the Peace Bridge
Just outside Shipquay Gate, the Guildhall is free to go in, and its stained glass windows tell the history of the city. The guided tour is cheap and worth it for the stories behind the glass.
Behind it, the Peace Bridge, opened in 2011, curves across the River Foyle to Ebrington Square, joining the two sides of the city.
Visitor information
The Guildhall. Guildhall Square, BT48 6DQ. Monday to Friday 9am to 8pm, weekends 9am to 6pm. Free, with guided tours at 11am and 2pm for £3.
The Peace Bridge. Starts behind the Guildhall at the river. Free and open at all times.
The Bogside and the Museum of Free Derry
Below the walls is the Bogside, where the civil rights movement and the Troubles came to a head in the late 1960s, and where Bloody Sunday happened in 1972. Free Derry Corner and the murals stand on the streets where it took place.
The Museum of Free Derry tells the story through the people who lived it, and it is one of the most moving museums in Ireland.
Visitor information
Opening times. Weekdays from 9:30am, until 6pm from March to October and 5pm the rest of the year. Weekends 10am to 4pm.
Guide prices. Adult £10, student £7, concession £8, children 12 and under free with their family.
Where it is. 55 Glenfada Park, BT48 9DR. Free Derry Corner is where Lecky Road meets Fahan Street.
Mussenden Temple
Mussenden Temple stands on the very edge of the cliff above Downhill Strand, built in 1785 by the Earl Bishop as a summer library. The walk out from Lion’s Gate passes the ruins of his great house, Downhill, and the wind on the cliff top is something else.
It sits on the coast road between Coleraine and Derry, so it is an easy stop on the way west. Allow about an hour.
Visitor information
Opening times. Grounds open daily dawn to dusk. The temple itself opens on selected days only.
Guide prices. Free to walk the grounds. Parking £10 per car, free for National Trust members and Blue Badge holders.
Where it is. Mussenden Road, Castlerock, BT51 4RP.
Our Mussenden Temple guide has the full detail.
Our things to do in Derry guide has the city in full.
County Down, the Mournes and Strangford Lough
South of Belfast, County Down is the side of Northern Ireland most visitors miss, and it is the one I would point a second time visitor towards. Strangford Lough, the great houses, Saint Patrick’s country and the Mourne Mountains are all within about an hour of the city.
Mount Stewart
Mount Stewart is a National Trust house on the shore of Strangford Lough, the family home of the Londonderrys, and its gardens are among the great gardens of these islands. The mild climate beside the lough lets subtropical plants thrive here.
Give it half a day if you like gardens. The house, the formal gardens and the lakeside walks each deserve their own time, and there is a tea room on site.
Visitor information
Opening times. Formal garden and trails 10am to 5pm. The house opens from 11am, with last entry at 4pm.
Guide prices. Adult £16, child aged 5 to 17 £8, family £40, free for National Trust members. Free parking.
Where it is. Portaferry Road, Newtownards, BT22 2AD.
Castle Ward
Castle Ward is an eighteenth century house built in two styles at once, classical on one side and gothic on the other, because, as the story goes, the husband and wife who built it could not agree. It stands on a large estate above Strangford Lough.
Game of Thrones fans know the farmyard as Winterfell from season one, and there are woodland and lough shore walks across the estate for everyone else.
Visitor information
Opening times. Grounds 10am to 5pm. The house opens on selected days, closed on Tuesdays.
Guide prices. Adult £15, child aged 5 to 17 £7.50, family £37.50, free for National Trust members.
Where it is. Strangford, Downpatrick, BT30 7BA.
Down Cathedral and Saint Patrick’s grave
Down Cathedral in Downpatrick stands on the site of a Benedictine monastery built in 1183, and tradition holds that Saint Patrick is buried in its grounds, along with Saint Brigid and Saint Colmcille.
The cathedral itself is free to visit, with its box pews and stained glass, and the grave is marked by a granite stone in the churchyard.
Visitor information
Opening times. Monday to Saturday 9:30am to 4pm, closed on Sunday.
Guide prices. Free. Guided tours by arrangement for a charge.
Where it is. 35 English Street, Downpatrick, BT30 6AB.
The Mourne Mountains and Tollymore Forest Park
The Mourne Mountains are granite peaks that run down to the sea at Newcastle, and Slieve Donard is the highest mountain in Northern Ireland. The walk to the top starts from the free Donard car park in the town.
Tollymore Forest Park sits at the foot of the mountains, with the Shimna River running through it and stone bridges and follies along the paths. The Silent Valley reservoir is the easiest way into the heart of the range by car.
Visitor information
Tollymore Forest Park. Bryansford Road, Newcastle, BT33 0PR. Daily from 10am until sunset. Parking £5 per car.
Silent Valley Mountain Park. Head Road, Kilkeel, BT34 4HU. Open daily from 9am. Car £5, cash or contactless.
Slieve Donard. The walk starts from the free Donard car park in Newcastle, BT33 0EU.
Armagh, the City of Saint Patrick
Armagh is about 40 miles from Belfast, around fifty minutes by road, and it is the ecclesiastical capital of all Ireland, with two cathedrals named after Saint Patrick facing each other across the city. It is small, handsome and easily walked.
Armagh Observatory and Planetarium
Armagh Observatory was founded in 1789 and is still a working observatory today. The planetarium beside it has a dome show that puts the night sky over your head, and children love it.
Book the dome show rather than just the exhibition, because it is the best way to visit, and arrive fifteen minutes early, as there is no late entry.
Visitor information
Opening times. Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 5pm, last entry 4:30pm, and bank holiday Mondays.
Guide prices. Dome show adult £11, child under 16 £8, family £35, under 3s free.
Where it is. College Hill, Armagh, BT61 9DB.
Navan Centre and Fort
Navan Fort, Emain Macha, was the ancient seat of the kings of Ulster, a great earthwork on a hill just outside the city that features in the oldest Irish legends.
The Navan Centre beside it tells the story with a guided tour, so book before you go.
Visitor information
Opening times. Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm.
Booking. Book online in advance, where the current prices are shown.
Where it is. 81 Killylea Road, Armagh, BT60 4LD, two miles from the city on the A28.
Fermanagh, the Lakelands
Fermanagh is about 83 miles from Belfast, roughly an hour and a half, and it is a county of lakes and islands, with Lough Erne running through the middle of it and Enniskillen on an island in between.
Marble Arch Caves
The Marble Arch Caves are a network of underground rivers and chambers in a UNESCO Global Geopark, seen only on a guided tour. When the water levels allow, the tour includes a boat trip through the caves.
Tours can sell out days ahead in busy periods, so book in advance and arrive half an hour before your time.
Visitor information
Opening times. Guided tours daily in October from 10am to 4pm.
Guide prices. Adult £16.50 online, child £8.50, family of four £41.50. Free parking.
Booking. Advised, on the Marble Arch Caves website.
Where it is. 43 Marlbank Road, Florencecourt, BT92 1EW.
Enniskillen Castle
Enniskillen Castle stands on the river in the middle of the island town, and it is home to two museums, the county museum and the regimental museum of the Inniskillings.
It is a good place to start a day in Fermanagh, and the boats out to the islands of Lough Erne leave from the jetty beside it.
Visitor information
Opening times. Monday to Friday 9:30am to 5pm, Saturday 11am to 5pm, and Sundays from June to September.
Guide prices. Adult £6.50, child £4.50, family £16.50. Free parking nearby.
Where it is. Enniskillen, BT74 7HL.
Devenish Island
Devenish Island on Lower Lough Erne holds a monastic site founded by Saint Molaise in the sixth century, with one of the finest round towers in Ireland still standing.
It can only be reached by boat. Erne Water Taxi runs tours out to the island from the Enniskillen Castle jetty through the visitor season.
Visitor information
Guide prices. Free to visit the site. The boat is booked separately.
Getting there. Erne Water Taxi, from the Enniskillen Castle jetty, booked through its own website.
Tyrone and the Sperrin Mountains
The middle of the country is quiet, open and rarely crowded. The Sperrins are an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty of moorland and glens, and the drive through them is a peaceful way between Derry and Belfast.
Ulster American Folk Park
The Ulster American Folk Park near Omagh is an outdoor museum that follows the emigrants who left Ulster for America. You walk from the thatched cottages they left, past the ship that carried them, into the streets and log cabins they arrived in.
Costumed guides work in the buildings, and it is one of the best family days out in the country. Allow at least half a day.
Visitor information
Opening times. Tuesday to Sunday, closed Monday, with shorter winter hours.
Guide prices. Adult £14, child aged 5 to 17 £8.70, family of four £34.50. Pre booking recommended. Free parking.
Where it is. 2 Mellon Road, Omagh, BT78 5QU.
Gortin Glen Forest Park
Gortin Glen sits at the western gateway to the Sperrins, with forest walks, a play park for children and a cafe.
It makes a good stop for a coffee and a stretch of the legs on the drive through the mountains.
Visitor information
Opening times. From 6:30am, closing at 6pm from October to March and 9pm from April to September.
Where it is. On the B48 between Omagh and Gortin, about six miles north of Omagh.
Beaghmore Stone Circles
On open bog near Cookstown, Beaghmore is a group of seven stone circles with cairns and stone rows, uncovered during peat cutting in the 1940s.
Few people come here, and that is the beauty of it. On a quiet evening it is one of the most atmospheric places in Ireland.
Visitor information
Opening times. Open access, though access can be restricted during works.
Guide prices. Free.
Where it is. Blackrock Road, Cookstown, BT80 9PB.
How to Plan Your Days by Region
Base yourself in Belfast for the city, County Down and Armagh, all within an hour. Move north for the Antrim coast, the Glens and the Causeway Coast, and stay a night in Ballycastle or Bushmills. Derry is the base for the north west, and Fermanagh and Tyrone fit on the way back across the middle of the country.
With five days you can see most of the places to visit in Northern Ireland on this page. Our Northern Ireland road trip lays out the northern half day by day, and our private tours cover the attractions near Belfast and the Causeway Coast in a day with a local guide.
Northern Ireland Top Attractions FAQ
What are the top attractions in Northern Ireland?
The Giant’s Causeway, Titanic Belfast, Carrick-a-Rede, Dunluce Castle, the Dark Hedges, the Derry walls and Mussenden Temple top most lists, with Mount Stewart, the Mourne Mountains and the Marble Arch Caves for those who go further.
What are the best places to visit in Northern Ireland?
Belfast, the Causeway Coast and the Glens of Antrim for a first visit, Derry for history, County Down and the Mournes for gardens and mountains, and Fermanagh for lakes and islands.
What are the best attractions near Belfast?
Titanic Belfast, Crumlin Road Gaol and the Ulster Museum in the city, then Carrickfergus Castle, Mount Stewart and Castle Ward, all within about an hour.
What is the most visited attraction in Northern Ireland?
The Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland’s only UNESCO World Heritage Site, on the north Antrim coast.
What are the best places to visit in Northern Ireland for free?
The Giant’s Causeway stones, the Dark Hedges, the Derry walls, Belfast City Hall, the Ulster Museum and St George’s Market are all free.
What are the best places to visit in Northern Ireland with kids?
Titanic Belfast, the Marble Arch Caves, the Armagh Planetarium, the Ulster American Folk Park and Glenariff Forest Park all work well for families.
Which part of Northern Ireland is the most beautiful?
The Causeway Coast and the Glens of Antrim for sea and cliffs, the Mourne Mountains for hills running down to the sea, and Fermanagh for lakes.
How far is Fermanagh from Belfast?
About 83 miles to Enniskillen, roughly an hour and a half by road.
How far is Armagh from Belfast?
About 40 miles, around fifty minutes by road.
What is there to see in County Down?
Mount Stewart, Castle Ward, Down Cathedral and Saint Patrick’s grave in Downpatrick, Strangford Lough, and the Mourne Mountains with Tollymore Forest Park and the Silent Valley.
Can you see Northern Ireland in a week?
Yes. A week covers Belfast, the Causeway Coast, Derry and either County Down or Fermanagh at a comfortable pace.
Do I need to book Northern Ireland attractions in advance?
Carrick-a-Rede must be booked. Book Titanic Belfast, the Giant’s Causeway, the Gobbins and the Marble Arch Caves ahead in summer as well.
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