BELFAST to ARMOY
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Ballycastle is also famed far and wide for the Oul Lammas Fair which takes place on the last Monday and Tuesday in August and brings thousands of people from all over the world.
Another famous link to Ballycastle came when George Kemp, an assistant of Guglielmo Marconi arrived in 1898 to carry out 'wireless telegraph' transmissions between Rathlin Island and Ballycastle, the work were commissioned by Lloyds of London who where keen to employ this new found technology in tracking trans Atlantic shipping.
The History of Ballycastle makes fascinating reading, this synopsis was written by Hugh A. Boyd of Ballycastle, a well respected local historian and is well worth reading. The Causeway Coastal Route passes through the town, a few miles out at Ballyvoy you have a choice of two roads, one the mountain road which passes Loughareema (The Vanishing Lake) or the Torr Scenic Route which passes Fairhead and Murlough Bay.
The surrounding area is designated as an AONB (Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty). Knocklayde mountain overlooks Ballycastle and is flanked by two of the Nine Glens of Antrim, Glenshesk and Glentaisie. The mountain which is climable has a cairn on the top which is said to mark the burial site of a Danish Princess. Some superb walking can be enjoyed ar ound the area from gentle strolls along the beach towards Fair Head or a fifteen mile walking hike across the North Antrim Plateau along the waymarked 'Moyle Way'.
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