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== Places of interest == [[File:Ballycastle Northern Ireland.jpg|thumb|View from the Rathlin boat]] The [[Ould Lammas Fair]], historically a lamb sale, has now become a street get together with market stalls, busking and street performers, attracting upwards of sixty thousand people each year. The fair is normally held Bank holiday Monday and Tuesday at end of August based on the fact that fairs were always held on last Tuesday of the month. (When the bank holiday is the last day of August the fair occurs a week earlier.) * [[Fair Head]] is a [[headland]] near Ballycastle that rises {{convert|196|m|ft|0}} out of the bay. There is a man-made [[Iron Age]] [[crannóg]] in the middle of a large lake at the top.<ref>{{cite web |title=Fair Head |url=http://www.thegemsofantrim.com/fairhead.html |publisher=The Gems of Antrim |access-date=31 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109142737/http://www.thegemsofantrim.com/fairhead.html |archive-date=9 January 2015}}</ref> * Knocklayde, a heather-covered mountain with a height of {{convert|1685|ft}}, is crowned by ''Carn na Truagh'' (the Cairn of Sorrow), and has views over Ballycastle, Rathlin Island, Fair Head, and Scotland.<ref>{{cite web |title=Knocklayde Mountain |url=http://www.ballycastle.info/places/knocklayde/knocklayde.htm |publisher=Ballycastle Information |access-date=31 May 2021}}</ref> * [[Glentaisie]], the most northerly of the nine [[Glens of Antrim]] ('the Glynns'), lies at the foot of Knocklayde mountain. It is named after the Princess Taisie, the daughter of King Dorm of Rathlin Island. According to legend, Taisie, renowned for her great beauty, was betrothed to Congal, heir to the Kingdom of Ireland. The [[King of Norway]] also sought her hand in marriage, and when he arrived to claim his bride, her wedding celebrations to Congal had begun. The king and his army tried to capture Taisie, but in the subsequent battle he was killed, and his army fled leaderless and empty-handed. * The Carey, Glenshesk and Tow Rivers flow down from the Glens into the Margy River. It then flows into the Moyle Sea at the start of the Strand.<ref>{{cite web |title=Ballycastle |url=http://www.ireland.com/en-us/destinations/northern-ireland/county-antrim/ballycastle/all/2-2420/ |access-date=31 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304050507/http://www.ireland.com/en-us/destinations/northern-ireland/county-antrim/ballycastle/all/2-2420/ |archive-date=4 March 2016}}</ref>{{Failed verification|date=May 2021}} * The Strand's Ballycastle Beach is designated a [[Blue Flag beach]]. * Pans Rocks, which are the remains of an iron salt pan lying at the far end of Ballycastle Beach, jut out into the sea and are a popular spot for fishing. [[File:Marconi memorial Ballycastle County Antrim.jpg|thumb|right|The Marconi memorial]] * The Devils Churn, lying just beyond Pans Rocks, has steps carved into the stone leading to an underwater tunnel. * Clare Park on Clare Road, was an estate owned by the then-local landed gentry, the McGildownys. The 17th-century house has been pulled down but it was set in a site high up on the Antrim coast. * The [[Corrymeela Community]] (a Christian organisation promoting peace and reconciliation, founded in 1965) is based at [[Corrymeela]], just outside Ballycastle. * Overlooking the harbour, there is a monument to [[Guglielmo Marconi|Guglielmo, 1st ''Marchese'' Marconi]], whose employees made the world's first commercial wireless telegraph transmission between Ballycastle and the East Lighthouse on [[Rathlin Island]]. Marconi was created a ''[[Marquess|Marchese]]'' by [[Victor Emmanuel III|King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy]] in 1929. * Close to the beach, there is a sculpture of the [[Children of Lir]]. According to the legend, the children were cursed to spend 300 years on the [[Sea of Moyle]], upon which Ballycastle is a coastal town.
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