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Rathlin Island Walking Leaflet [email protected] Email: Email: RI050813 www.rathlinballycastleferry.com 028 2076 9298 2076 028 9299 2076 028 Fax: Fax: Tel: 028 2076 9299 2076 028 Pre Booking Essential Essential Booking Pre Ballycastle Terminal Office Terminal Ballycastle For all booking enquiries contact our our contact enquiries booking all For Co. Antrim Co. Ballycastle ergorderlich Reservierung PRE Reservation indespensable avant indespensable Reservation ales W Imprescindible reservar PRE reservar Imprescindible eland Ir of Rep. England Daily ferries from from ferries Daily eland Ir N. • Belfast • ne Lar • 6 miles/9.5 km. miles/9.5 6 Rathlin to Ballycastle • Ballycastle • • Rathlin Island Rathlin • 23 miles/37 km. miles/37 23 Ballycastle to Coleraine 60 miles/96 km. miles/96 60 Ballycastle to Derry Scotland A world away for a day… a for away world A 160 miles/260 km. miles/260 160 Ballycastle to Dublin 56 miles/90 km. miles/90 56 Ballycastle to Belfast www.rathlincommunity.org 456 327 07850 / 0079 2076 028 Tel: - Northern Ireland Northern - RATHLIN DEVELOPMENT AND COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION COMMUNITY AND DEVELOPMENT RATHLIN Rathlin Island Island Rathlin 826 968 07783 Books: Island Rathlin 3909 2076 028 McCurdy: Gusty BOOK PUBLISHERS BOOK AUTHOR & HISTORIAN LOCAL Photography: Tom McDonnell 07723 087 668 087 07723 McDonnell Tom Photography: WORKSHOPS Rathlin Island Seafoods: 07717 028 169 028 07717 Seafoods: Island Rathlin Rathlin Co-Op Grocery Shop Grocery Co-Op Rathlin 283 663 07868 Office: Post / Shop Gift Treasures Island RSPB Seabird Centre: 028 2076 0062 2076 028 Centre: Seabird RSPB 605 869 07708 Centre: Visitor Boathouse VISITOR CENTRE AND SHOPS AND CENTRE VISITOR Puffin Bus: 07752 861 788 861 07752 Bus: Puffin 898 586 07740 Bus: Puffin Bert’s TAKE A BUS A TAKE advance booking essential) booking advance ( 924 566 07745 Walks: Rathlin advance booking essential) booking advance ( 668 087 07723 McDonnell: Tom 3954 2076 028 Hire: Cycle Soerneog TAKE A HIKE A TAKE BIKE A TAKE Posh Picnics: 07565 871 319 ( 319 871 07565 Picnics: Posh 0011 2076 028 Cafe: Kitchen Bruce’s & Bar McCuaig’s advance booking essential) booking advance Harbour Cafe: 079 5535 9837 5535 079 Cafe: Harbour 881 282 07795 Ahoy: Chip Emma’s WHERE TO EAT AND DRINK AND EAT TO WHERE the island! the Soerneog Hostel: 028 2076 3954 2076 028 Hostel: Soerneog [email protected] Hostel: Island Rathlin Rathlin Cottages: 07565 871 319 871 07565 Cottages: Rathlin 339 944 07773 Cottage: Puffin Let us take you to to you take us Let Manor House Guesthouse: 028 2076 3964 2076 028 Guesthouse: House Manor 3948 2076 028 Bunkhouse: Kinramer Hay Loft: 07801 098 690 098 07801 Loft: Hay 3983 2076 028 B+B: Coolnagrock WHERE TO STAY TO WHERE Oileán Reachlainn Rathlin Island Rathlin Island es la Rathlin Island est la única isla habitada fuera seule île habitée au large de la costa de Irlanda The Boat Trip de L’Irlande du Nord. del Norte. Situada entre Située entre L’Écosse et Ballycastle is the departure port for Rathlin Island. Now mainly a leisure port with a small local Escocia e Irlanda, la isla, L’Irlande cette île en forme fishing fleet, it was once a busy industrial port exporting coal from the local mines to Belfast and en forma de ‘L’, es el de L a une population Dublin. The breakwaters and marina were built in 1998 to make the harbour a safe haven for all hogar de una población d’environ 100 insulaires vessels. Ballycastle beach and Golf Club are on your right as you leave the harbour. The Margy de más de 100 isleños is the river that flows into Ballycastle Bay. riches d’un patrimoine que cuentan con un rico patrimonio cultural culturel sur lequel ils se construisent un y quienes están construyendo un futuro During the 1700s and 1800s salt works were also an important part of the economy and future positif et durable. Visitez le boathouse positivo y sostenible para ellos y para las the rocks off the beach shore on the east coast are called the “Pan Rocks” – the site of the à Church Bay et découvrez L’histoire d’une futuras generaciones. Visite el Centro evaporation pans for the salt production. communauté dynamique présente sur Boathouse en Church Bay para leer la l’île depuis le Néolithique - un ferry relie Once out of Ballycastle Bay the ferry crosses the Sea of Moyle. On the North Eastern tip of historia de una comunidad vibrante que ha quotidiennement Ballycastle, située sure la Ireland is the imposing geographic feature of Fair Head. It towers 636 feet above sea level and vivido aquí desde la era Neolítica. Los feries route touristique Causeway Coastal Route, marks the entrance to the Irish Sea. operan diariamente desde Ballycastle, Co. à Rathlin Island. Il est conseille de réserver. Antrim, en la ruta turística, Causeway King Donn of Rathlin lived at Doonmore with his daughter Taisie Taobhgheal. “She had clear Coastal Route. Es siempre aconsejable blue eyes, long black tresses and a melodious voice”. Fair Head is named after this beautiful hacer reservación. Rathlin Princess. Glen Taisie, one of the nine Antrim Glens was home to Taisie and her husband Congal. The tidal patterns of this area are unusual because of the Atlantic waters from the west narrowing to enter the North Channel. The position of Rathlin in the tideway causes many Rathlin Island è Rathlin Island Northern variations therefore local knowledge and understanding is needed. At certain stages of the d’Irlanda del Nord solo Irlands einzige Offshore- tide a turbulence occurs in the centre of the channel known as Slough na Mara “the hollow of in mare aperto abitata Insel bewohnt. Liegen the sea”. dell’isola. Situato tra la zwischen Schottland Scozia e l’Irlanda, l’isola und Irland, ist diese In 440AD, a fleet of 50 currachs led by Breacain, grandson of Niall of the Nine Hostages, who a forma di L è la patria di L-förmige Insel die was King of Ireland was lost in the Rathlin rip tide. una popolazione vivace Heimat einer lebendigen di circa 100 abitanti che The Giant’s Causeway, Northern Ireland’s only World Heritage Site, lies to the west just around Bevölkerung von etwa the corner from Benbane Head on the North Antrim Coast. The island near to the shore is vantano un ricco patrimonio culturale e su 100 Inselbewohner, die eine kulturelle und Sheep Island which is seaward of Carrick-a-Rede rope bridge. cui stanno costruendo un futuro positivo e ein reiches Erbe, an dem sie den Aufbau sostenibile per sé e per le future generazioni einer positiven und nachhaltigen Zukunft für The Sea of Moyle is steeped in legend and folktales. The Children of Lir, King Lir’s children di isolani Rathlin. Visita il Centro Boathouse sich und die zukünftigen Generationen von who were turned into swans by their jealous step-mother spent 300 years in this sea. at Church Bay a leggere la storia di una Rathlin Islanders sind rühmen. Besuchen Sie The cove close to Pan Rocks was the landing vivace comunità che hanno vissuto qui sin die Boathouse Centre in Church Bay, um die place of Deirdre of the Sorrows from the folktale dal Neolitico. Traghetti eseguire tutti i giorni Geschichte einer lebendigen Gemeinschaft, The Sons of Usnach. dalle Ballycastle Co Antrim - sulla Causeway die hier seit der Jungsteinzeit Zeiten lebten The seas around Rathlin abound with marine Coastal Route. La prenotazione è sempre lesen. Fähren fahren täglich von Ballycastle life and are a diver’s paradise. It is also a resting consigliata. Co Antrim - auf der Causeway Coastal place for many shipwrecks the most notable Route. Buchung ist immer ratsam. being the HMS Drake which is marked by a buoy which you will pass as you approach Church Bay – the landing area on Rathlin Island. 0 1 km Rathlin Walks Old Coastguard NORTH Look Out Doonmore EAST BALLYGILL NORTH LIGHTHOUSE Ballyconagan Trail easT lighT WalK KeBBle souTh Trail Kinramer norTh Trail Loughnanskan 1.3 miles / 2km 2 miles / 3.2km 1.25 miles / 2km 1.5 miles / 2.5km WEST R Kinramer KILPATRICK BALLYCONAGAN LIGHTHOUSE Wood CLEGGAN This National Trust trail leads you This gentle walk passes by the This walk will reward you with For the more intrepid rambler, R.S.P.B. V through a mosaic of different two churches on Rathlin Island spectacular sights through the sections follow rough terrain and Seabird KEBBLE Centre habitats including mire and fen and - The Church of the Immaculate seasons. In Spring-time carpets of involve ascending and descending U KNOCKANS MULLINDRESS BALLYCARRY T heathlands that are home to hares, Conception (Roman Catholic) and purple and heath spotted orchids, in of rock faces. Orchid species can be Kebble BALLYGILL S CHURCH O Lough QUARTER damsel and dragon flies, skylark, St. Thomas’s Church (Church of summer lady’s bedstraw, tormentil found among the wet and dry heath KINRAMER SOUTH SOUTH meadow pippet, reed bunting and Ireland) and the local primary school, and eyebright. The autumn heath habitats including the lesser butterfly Church Standing Bay Stone linnet. St. Mary’s. comes alive with scarlet, yellow and orchid and heath spotted orchid. BALLYNOE pink waxcap fungi. Patches of thin peat soils and early Bull You will pass through the walls of an Cave P The East Lighthouse is the oldest bog formations provide species such Point old settlement at Crocknanagh. The Spring bird species include chough Cooraghy Light built in 1856 and cost £17,140. as the yellow bog asphodel and Bay Mill path climbs up to an old Coastguard and lapwing. Peregrines, puffins, HMS Drake Bay insectivorous butterwort. Look Out that was built in 1941.
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