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46. Rathlin IslandRathlin Island is a 50 minute boat trip across the sound from ballycastle and only a dozen or so miles from the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland. Shaped like a boomerang with one arm about 4 miles long and the other about 2 and a half, the island has three lighthouses and high white cliffs round most of the coast. The tip of the shorter arm is 3 miles from Fair Head, a nearly right angled headland that marks off Ulster's north east cormer. In the angle of the boomerang, the sheltreed modern harbour at Church Bay is a useful staging post for yachts heading for he Hebrides. Rathlin boatmen are pleased to point out Sloughna-More, "the swallow of the sea", a whirlpool at the southern tip of Rathlin where St Columba is said to have narrowly escaped drowning on a voyage fro Ireland to Iona in the sixth century. The first recorded shipping disaster in Rathlin Sound was in about AD440 when Brecain, son of Niall of the Nine Hostabes, and his fleet of fifty curraghs were lost in a great tide rip. Services in Rathlin Island Guest Houses | Car Rental | Vacation Packages
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47. TemplepatrickAt Templepatrick on the airport road, Castle Upton Stables are used as an art gallery. Peacocks roost overhead and groups of guanacos,a kind of llama, browse around the lake. A frequent first or last stop for travellers coming through Belfast International Airport. Services in Templepatrick Bed & Breakfasts | Hotels | Car Rental | Vacation Packages
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48. Toome
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49. ToomebridgeSouth of Portglenone, at Toomebridge where the Bann flows out of Lough Neagh, is a large eel fishery where visitors can call in. Demand in Europe for Lough Neagh eels is insatiable. At the height of the fishing season every day 7 tons of brown eels are flown to holland from Belfast International. Elvres, baby eels that look like little silver matchsticks, are a sought after delicascy;but they are not appreciated in Ireland, and most of them are allowed to grow to maturity in the lough. Large quantities are collected at Coleraine and brought to Lough neagh by lorry. Left to their own devices, elvers take a year to make their way up the Bann. Salmon, on the other hand, swim up in a month. If you take a trip along the Bann after 1 May, there are dramatic piscatorial scenes of anglers tussling with these beautiful fish at every lock and weir. Services in Toomebridge Hotels | Car Rental | Vacation Packages
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50. Waterfoot
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