Tourist Attractions - worth a visit - within a easy traveling distance

Giants Causeway
1 hour 30 mins from Islandmagee Ireland's first World Heritage Site. Over 40,000 stone Columns. Wreck site of the Amada treasure ship Girona is east of the Grand Causeway at Port-na-Spaniagh. Guide leaflet available at visitor's centre. Guided walks (advance booking). Waymarked walks. Minibus with wheelchair from visitor centre to Grand Causeway daily (shorter hours in winter).
National Trust telephone - 028 207 31159 - www.interknowledge.com/northern-ireland/ukiant01.htm

Dunluce Centre
1 hour 30 mins from Islandmagee - Opening hours - Telephone - 02870 824444. Family entertainment centre 'Myths & Legends' of the North Antrim Coast/Turbo Tours/Earthquest/Tumble Town - adventure play centre. Viewing tower shops cafi. Wheelchair access except tower.

Dunluce Castle
1 hour 30 mins from Islandmagee Dramatic ruins on a rocky headland. Most of the fortifications date from the 16th and 17th centuries. Wheelchair access limited. Visitor centre, shop, guided tours. Opening hours - Telephone - 028 70 31938.www.touristnetuk.com/ni/dunluce-castle

Carrickfergus Castle 
15 mins from Islandmagee Started 1180 by John de Courcy conqueror of east Ulster, and garrisoned until 1928. Exhibition on the castle's history, audio-visual. Shop, Wheelchair access limited. Opening hours - Telephone 028 93 351273. www.touristnetuk.com/ni/dunluce-castle

Belfast City Hall
30 mins from Islandmagee Built in Portland Stone, completed in 1906. Fine interior. Wheelchair access. Guided tours must be booked in advance: Opening hours - Telephone 028 90 270546. Belfast City Centre - 30 mins from Islandmagee - (you may take a train from Whitehead Station 5 mins away - directly into the City Centre - 30 mins). The City is well worth a visit - shopping/theatre/guided tours/historic buildings. Opera House Tel - 028 90 241919. www.belfastcity.gov.uk/Tourism/bctweb/WTG.html

Ulster folk and transport Museum - Cultra, Holywood
Telephone 028 90 428428 or 421444 - 45 mins from Islandmagee. www.folkpark.com An open air museum of a typical Ulster Town c1900. Stroll through yesteryear's countryside with farms, cottages, crops and livestock. Indoor exhibitions include: Ireland's most comprehensive transport collection, award winning Irish Railway and Road Transport gallery and Titanic exhibition.

Ulster American Folk Park Castletown - Omagh
Telephone 028 82 243292 - 1 hour 30 mins from Islandmagee. An outdoor museum of emigration history. Thatched houses, barns, log cabins and craft workshops depict emigrant life on both sides of the Atlantic. A ship & dockside gallery links the Old World & the New World Exhibits. www.folkpark.com

Contact North Irish Lodge (UK) 028 9338 2246 or 048 9338 2246 from ROI