![]() The surrounding population is mostly involved in farming. Halfway between Belfast and Downpatrick the population of this town is mostly made up of Belfast commuters. Paint Hall is comprised of four 16,000ft² “cells” where the children’s fantasy sci-fi adventure film “City of Ember” and the medieval comedy “Your Highness” were filmed. ![]() This location is part of Titanic Studios, an 8-acre set, located five minutes from Belfast’s Titanic Quarter. Historic attractions in the area day from Neolithic artifacts, to settlements bearing thousands of years of Christian witness, from the Normans to 18th century structures. Located midway between Larne and Carrickfergus, overlooking Islandmagee, this town has a population of 981. There are plans to transform this area into a nature conservation, leisure and housing area. This quarry operated for crushed stone is located five miles south of Larne on the shores of Larne Lough. ![]() Over 700 years old, and operating as a hotel since 1971, Barberstown Castle is a sister design development to nearby Straffan House at the K Club, which hosted the 2006 Ryder Cup Matches pitting star players such as Ireland’s Padraig Harrington on the European team against a squad featuring the likes of Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson on a golf course designed by the Arnold Palmer, who was known as “The King.”įor information or to book, visit which offers other historical Irish lodging options throughout Ireland.A small village near the town of Larne, Cairncastle has a population of just 66. It’s a photogenic spot for “Princess Brides” to marry their “Prince Charmings.” A tunnel and “priest hole” were discovered during renovations in 1996. The property, with 55 guest rooms, currently displays the comforts of millions of dollars in redevelopment. The castle hotel and Irish country house with Elizabethan and Victorian extensions are surrounded by 20 acres of gardens and have been cared for and preserved by various owners including music star Eric Clapton, who owned Barbertown from 1979 until 1087. The per-person, double occupancy rate of $3,998 includes all meals, first-aid certified guides, land transportation, luggage service, gratuities, and national park entrance and permit fees.įor a solo storybook stay without being on a guided tour, Barberstown Castle, in Kildare, 30-minutes outside Dublin, offers hotel guests 4-star luxuries nobody who stayed in the castle when it was built in the 13 th century could have dreamed of. Another urban center Throners will visit is Belfast, birthplace of the doomed ocean liner Titanic, where a detailed museum examines its’ ill-fated voyage. Nearby is Ireland’s oldest community, Drogheda, settled before the 12th century. Older than the mythology of the game Throners are playing here is the prehistoric (3,200BC) burial chamber at Newgrange, predating Stonehenge. Carrick A Rede, a rope bridge over the ocean between two cliffs is nearby the for daring (it’s safe.) Bushmills Irish Whiskey Distillery is in the area, as is Royal Portrush Golf Club, which will, for the first time since 1951, bring the British Open Championship back to Northern Ireland in 2019. Very few tourists visit Northern Ireland’s “Causeway Coast” beyond Belfast without spy “Giants Causeway,” a natural phenomenon of hexagonal basalt columns created a millennia ago leading into the sea with its’ own legendary myth – a pathway to Scotland for the giant Finn McCool. The tour intends to ease the modern world away with subsequent pilgrimages to Carrickfergus Castle, circa 1177, on the coast and Ballygalley Hotel, which, built in 1625, is the oldest, continuously inhabited castle in Ireland. Three pub stops will then precede a night in Enniskeen which, at the foot of the Mountains of Mourne, will make a good starting point for the next day’s seven-mile hike along an old smuggling route. The action begins next with an immersion in archery at the original film set in make-believe “Winterfell.” It’s at Castle Ward, an 18 th century gothic mansion and estate on the waters of Strangford Lough originally owned by the Earls of Kildare. Patrick, the English slave who became Ireland’s patron saint by bringing Catholicism to the Emerald Isle and, legend has it, driving off all the snakes. “Throners,” which are active aficionados akin to the “Star Trek” “Trekkies,” will, throughout the journey, collect “stamps” to place on their “Game of Thrones passports.” By the end of their journey they will have 10 stamps representing film sites visited during their real-life expedition into the imaginary July 1-8.Īfter flying to into Dublin, the tour stops first in Downpatrick to visit the grave of St.
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