In the 18th-century courthouse, the Ballycastle Museum recalls the folk history of the Glens. Feis na nGleann in June is a festival of Gaelic games, music and dancing. But the town's biggest event of the year, on the last Monday and Tuesday of August, is the Out' Lammas Fair. There is a car ferry service to Ballycastle from Campbeltown in Scotland. Ballintoy Harbour. is full of small boats and dinghies, white piers and little jagged islands.
Visitors can arrange trips from here along the coast with local fishermen.
A long golden beach lying in a grassy bowl of dunes and cliffs, sheltering the smallest church in Ireland. There are caves at the far end of the bay and a nature trail. There is now only one massive wall on the very edge of a cliff. Dunseverick was the north end of the oldest road in Ireland, where the Celts in prehistoric times crossed to and from Scotland. The Giant's Causeway with a World Heritage Site, is Ireland's most famous tourist attraction.