Whiterocks Beach Portrush - County Antrim Northern Ireland
White Rock Beach is one of the beaches in Portrush - close to Portstewart as well. If taking the coastal route or in Portrush - definitely check out Whiterock beach. Definitely in the top 2 beaches in the Portrush area. Agree? :-) (
White Rock - or Whiterocks - Beach is one of the different beaches that is located in Portrush, county Antrim, and one of our favorite for the beauty of the beach and the different water sports that could be done there. White Rocks beach has been awarded the prestigious Blue Flag Award once again in 2015, not being the first time for that, and this proves why it is one of those beaches preferred by the local people and also one of those suggested for the tourists coming to Portrush.
This beach is located just off the Causeway Coastal Route and it is believed to have beautiful natural location with limestone cliffs stretching from Curran Strand to Dunluce Castle ( The name of this beach came from the soft rocks of Whiterocks which have been carved through centuries into a labyrinth of caves and arches; Shelagh's Head, the Wishing Arch, Elephant Rock, and the Lion's Paw are all headlands of distinguishable forms that tend to rise out of the ocean.
Coming to White Rocks Beach could happen for several different reasons, it could be for relaxing a little bit by the sea and enjoying the good water if the weather allows you to and it could be for doing any of the different water sports which people tend to go there for, such as surfing, body boarding, kayaking, and there are even those who come for horse riding - but this is restricted during specific times just the same ways dogs are also restricted there at specific times.
White Rocks Beach is a perfect vacation destination for those who pass by Portrush so often and one of the other positive points related to this place is that it is not far away from Belfast, so if you are going to stay in Belfast, you could still get the chance to go to Portrush and enjoy a day at Whiterocks Beach - you will definitely enjoy your time there.
If you are thinking about this beach but all what might be freaking you out is whether your kids will enjoy this place or not then you should not be worried because kids love Whiterock beach for the things they tend to enjoy their time there while doing; the kids love climbing the black rocks on the ocean's edge, running around, swimming and playing with the sand while making some castles.
It is actually a place that all the members of the family enjoy coming to for the activities that could be done and for the scenes and views which they will tend to receive. While being at the White Rocks Beach, you will get a panoramic view of the Causeway Coast, Donegal and the Islands of Scotland. If you want to have more sensational views then you could have a stop at the Magheracross, which is a custom built area that allows sublime views of Dunluce Castle from one direction and Whiterocks and Portrush from the other.
Whiterocks Beach is well prepared for the visitors, there are different facilities which you will find there offered to you, there is a car parking place, lifeguard service that is there during July and August from 11am to 7pm on a daily basis, board walk access to the beach, toilets and parking lots for disabled people, and they allow dogs and horses but with some restrictions during specific times.
There are other attractions which are located in Portrush and which we have been to before, one of them is the location that Game of Thrones movie series was filmed at which is Portstewart Strand ( The Downhill Beach Castlerock is close to Portrush and thus could be considered a place to visit as well ( and there is also the famous touristic attraction The Giant's Causeway that is in Bushmills but which is also close to Portrush (
According to our experience at the Whiterocks Beach, we could definitely say that this is one of our favorite beaches in Northern Ireland for the different things it could offer people and for the stunning views it carries - you might never think that Scotland could be spotted from out there, but it appears on a clear sky day.
Are you searching for a peaceful beautiful beach with different spots and perfect water? Whiterocks is the answer then; you could enjoy everything there from having a peaceful time to playing any of the water sports that you are crazy about.
Crawfordsburn Beach in county Down ( Runkerry Beach in county Antrim ( are other options for beaches in Northern Ireland if they are closer to you.
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A spring day
Whiterocks Beach - Portrush Northern Ireland
Shot with DJI Spark, at the Whiterocks Beach in Portrush Northern Ireland
Whiterocks Beach, Portrush
A quick look at one of my favourite beaches along the entire North Coast of Ireland
Whiterocks beach, Portrush drone footage. Dji Spark
Whiterocks beach, Portrush, Northern Ireland. Filmed on Dji Spark drone. New Year’s Day 2019
Brae-Mar B&B - Portrush, United Kingdom - Awesome place!
Brae-Mar B&B - Special price! -
On Northern Island’s North Coast, the Brae-Mar B&B is just a 10-minute walk from the center of Portrush and the beach. It has large individually designed rooms with free Wi-Fi.
Rooms at the Brae-Mar all feature satellite TVs and private bathrooms with hairdryers. Tea/coffee making facilities are provided and some accommodations have fully-equipped kitchens and lounges.
A traditional breakfast is served each morning in the charming dining room. There is a lounge with a 48-inch satellite TV and a computer with internet access for guests to use.
The North Antrim Coast has many spectacular walks, and fishing and water sports are available at Portrush Bay. Free parking is available at the Brae Mar B&B.
Amazing Sea Beach Views Royal Court Hotel Portrush
These are the fantastic cliff top sea/beach views you get when you stop off for a meal or an extended stay at the splendid Royal Court Hotel Portrush. This wonderful family run hotel must have one of the best scenic sea/beach locations/overlooking beach views, anywhere in Ireland. Come and check the fabulous room balcony views out for yourself.
The hotel is beautifully situated atop the cliffs at White Rocks and has the reputation of having the most commanding position on the Antrim Coast. Overlooking the harbour town of Portrush and its world famous Royal Portrush Golf Course, the hotel enjoys panoramic views of County Donegal in the west, to the Giant's Causeway in the east and the Scottish Isles in the north. Open all year round, the hotel offers the perfect base, not only for golfing, fishing and watersport enthuasiasts, but for those wishing to explore the many interesting and historical sites the area has to offer.
Offering scenic ocean views, this modern hotel next to the A2 is a 1.3-mile drive from the Royal Portrush Golf Course and 5.8 miles from Giant's Causeway.
Rooms are furnished in a warm manner and some feature sea views. All have flat-screen TVs, free WiFi, and tea and coffeemaking equipment. Upgraded rooms add private balconies, while some suites have 4-poster beds, sitting areas and/or whirlpool baths.
A cooked breakfast is included in the rate. There's an on-site grill bar and restaurant serving a locally sourced menu, as well as a daily carvery. Full conference and wedding facilities for up to 350 guests are also available.
Address: 233 Ballybogey Road, Portrush BT56 8NF
Phone: 028 7082 2236
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Sunrise at 5am on White Rocks Beach, Portrush, Tuesday 14th May 2019.
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Portrush | Portrush Golf | Royal Portrush | Barry's Portrush | Northern Ireland
If you are looking for a fantastic beach town to visit in Northern Ireland, we highly recommend taking a trip to Portrush.
It is a small seaside resort town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. The main part of the old town is home to the many hotels, restaurants and bars that are popular with locals and visitors to the town. It has a population of over 7,355 people as measured in 2012.
During off-season, the picturesque Portrush is a dormitory town for the nearby campus of the University of Ulster at Coleraine.
Portrush is popular and well known for its three sandy beaches. These are the West Strand, East Strand and White Rocks. These beaches are perfect for families and there are a number of all ages surf schools for anyone looking to take up lessons in surfing during their time in the town.
Barry's Amusements in Portrush is another big draw for visitors especially for young visitors as well as those young at heart. There is a strong history with the amusement park as it is more than 90 years old and remains a popular choice for anyone looking for the thrills of The Big Dipper, a ride on their traditional carousel or to try their hand at winning a giant soft toy in their games.
One of the biggest appeals of Portrush in Northern Ireland is the stunning location for any keen golfers. The Royal Portrush Golf Club is a 36-hole club with two links courses, the Dunluce Links and the Valley Links. It is the only golf club outside Great Britain which has hosted The Open Championship.
Portrush has had the spotlight as in 2019, the stunning golf course will be home once again to The Open Championship. Huge names in the world of golf will be at the championship in 2019 from Tiger Woods and Darren Clarke to Northern Ireland's own, Rory McIlroy.
If you would like to read more about The Open 2019 at the Royal Portrush, check out our blog full of information
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Kilkee Beach, Ireland
Kilkee (Irish: Cill Chaoi, meaning Church of Chaoineadh Ita – lamentation for Ita) is a small coastal town in County Clare, Ireland. It is in the parish of Kilkee, formerly Kilfearagh. Kilkee is midway between Kilrush and Doonbeg on the N67 road. The town is popular as a seaside resort. The horseshoe bay is protected from the Atlantic Ocean by the Duggerna Reef.
During the early part of the 19th century, Kilkee was just a small fishing village but in the 1820s when a paddle steamer service from Limerick to Kilrush was launched, it began to attract visitors.[6] It has been a resort since then and was featured on the front page of the Illustrated London News as the premier bathing spot in what was then the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. As the town was more accessible to people from Limerick rather than Clare, holidaying in Kilkee became more of a Limerick custom, due to steamboats travelling daily up and down the River Shannon.[7] Gradually the town grew as wealthy merchants from Limerick wanted holiday homes by the sea, resulting in a building boom in the 1830s. As demand for lodgings in Kilkee grew, several hotels were built. Along with these, three churches were built, a Roman Catholic church in 1831, a Protestant church in 1843 and a Methodist church in 1900, reflecting the cosmopolitan feel of the town in that era.
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Crawfordsburn Beach - Bangor and Holywood Northern Ireland
CRAWFORDSBURN BEACH - Beside Helen's Bay - Bangor and Holywood Northern Ireland. A beautiful beach - great for a long walk. One of the nicest beaches near Belfast. Perfect for a coastal walk - which also leads into Crawfordsburn Forest Park; these are all things to consider and place on your list when it comes to Crawfordsburn beach.
This place is known as Crawfordsburn Country Park and this goes to the different activities that could be done inside there in addition to swimming or just enjoying a walk by the shores of the beach. In this natural retreat which the visitors for this park will enjoy is one of the relaxing destinations that you could head for because it offers two different beaches and they both will guarantee spectacular scenery as well as views across Belfast Lough; so you will win in all the different possible ways.
Enjoying Crawfordsburn beach in county Down is not the only thing that you will manage to experience while being in this park, but you could also get the chance to walk through the peaceful meadows and even those lucky ones might get the chance to see the stunning waterfall.
There are different facilities offered to the visitors in this country park and which include a cafe, an Adidas-approved 5k running trail, a natural play area, and a geology garden. This is not the end of it, but in this park, there is also a wide range of wildlife which include hedgehogs, rabbits, badgers, a large rookery and jays in the wooden glen, grey wagtails, and dippers along the streams and seals, herons, shags, guillemots, and in winter there is also Brent geese which could be seen walking along the park's coastal path; it is a perfect destination for those wildlife watchers who would enjoy spending a couple of hours just inspecting what this park could actually offer them.
Crawfordsburn is also known to be a small village that is located in county Down, Northern Ireland, where the park or where this beach is found, and that is the reason why this village actually attracts lots of tourists and visitors to it; they come to check the country park and at the same time enjoy their times by the beach.
Who out there is not a beach lover? We all probably love the idea of sitting by the beach, enjoying the breeze and just freeing our minds from anything that might be happening inside their, we free it from the hassle of the world, but sometimes those beaches are different, there are those beautiful ones in which one could also enjoy walking between some trees and enjoying the greenery of the place, running through the trails made for such purposes, or watch some of the trees which might be taking their place there, which is exactly the case with Crawfordsburn Beach.
When it comes to Northern Ireland, there are different other beaches which we have also been to and thus would definitely recommend for our followers and which we believe are among the list of the best beaches that one could head to in Northern Ireland and enjoy.
From those beaches which we have been to in Northern Ireland, there is Downhill Beach which also appeared in Game of Thrones movie series ( Portballintrae Beach which is located in county Antrim ( Ballywalter Beach in county Down ( Whiterocks Beach in Portrush ( and Ballygally Beach which is located just on the other side of Ballygally Castle Hotel in which Game of Thrones was also filmed at some point during the movie (
One of the things we prefer about our country is that it appreciates nature and thus in addition to all these beautiful beaches, you will also find place to have a walk, run, or just enjoy looking at the green spaces which are found there.
Crawfordsburn is not far away from Belfast, Northern Ireland, so if your trip to the country will be all about visiting this city, you could still make a plan to go to this country park and not only enjoy the beach, but also enjoy any of the other facilities which we have mentioned that are already found there.
There are lots of things to do in Northern Ireland and some of them are about the different beaches and those parks which are scattered all around the country, we have already been to some of these parks and would definitely mention some of them for those who will need a long list!!
Since this is very close to Bangor, you could check Bangor Harbour ( and Pickie Park in Bangor ( they would give a nice experience and let you spend some nice time as well.
On a scale from 1 to 10, how much are you now excited to visit Crawfordsburn and check this beach?
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Very short clip of Portrush Co. Antrim, N. Ireland
Portrush (from Irish: Port Rois, meaning promontory port) is a small seaside resort town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, on the County Londonderry border. The main part of the old town, including the railway station as well as most hotels, restaurants and bars, is built on a mile–long peninsula, Ramore Head, pointing north-northwest. It had a population of 6,454 people as measured by the 2011 Census. In the off-season, Portrush is a dormitory town for the nearby campus of the University of Ulster at Coleraine. It neighbours the resort of Portstewart.
The town is well known for its three sandy beaches, the West Strand, East Strand and White Rocks, as well as the Royal Portrush Golf Club, the only golf club outside of mainland Great Britain which has hosted the Open Championship.
It was the base for the Katie Hannan (this life boat was damaged in 2008, after running aground during a rescue at Rathlin Island, Now based as a training boat for the RNLI), a Severn class lifeboat and Ken and Mary, a D–class inshore lifeboat of the RNLI. Lifeboats have operated out of Portrush Harbour since 1860, and currently stationed there are the Severn class William Gordon Burr and the D-class inshore vessel David Roulston.
Portrush is in the East Londonderry constituency for the UK Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.
History
Portrush Chapel, Ireland (1850)
A number of flint tools found during the late nineteenth century show that the site of Portrush was occupied during the Larnian (late Irish Mesolithic) period; recent estimates date this to around 4000 BC.
The site of Portrush, with its excellent natural defences, probably became a permanent settlement around the 12th or 13th century. A church is known to have existed on Ramore Head at this time, but no part of it now survives. From the records of the papal taxation of 1306, the Portrush church – and by extension the village – appears to have been reasonably wealthy. The promontory also held two castles, at varying periods. The first of these, Caisleán an Teenie, is believed to have been at the tip of Ramore Head, and probably destroyed in the late 16th century; the other, Portrush Castle, may have been built around the time of the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century. Nothing survives of either castle.
Following the Wars of the Three Kingdoms in the mid-seventeenth century, Portrush became a small fishing town. It grew heavily in the nineteenth century as a tourist destination, following the opening of the Ballymena, Ballymoney, Coleraine and Portrush Junction Railway in 1855, and by the turn of the twentieth century had become one of the major resort towns of Ireland, with a number of large hotels and boarding houses including the prominent Northern Counties Hotel. As well as the town's beaches and the Royal Portrush Golf Club (opened 1888), the nearby Giant's Causeway was a popular tourist destination, with the Giant's Causeway Tramway – at the time, one of the world's longest electrified railways – built in 1893 to cater to travellers coming from Portrush.
Places of interest
Portrush's West Strand Beach.Attractions in the town include The Coastal Zone (formerly the Portrush Countryside Centre), Waterworld swimming complex, and, on the edge of town, the links of the Royal Portrush Golf Club, which hosted the 1951 British Open golf championship, and Ballyreagh Golf Course. At the 1951 British Open golf championship young star Derek McLachlan won the hearts of the local crowd when he led on the third day by 3 strokes only to drive out of bounds twice on the final day of the Open and finish tied for 8th place.
There are two long sandy beaches in the town, known as the West and East Strand. White Rocks and Curran Strand stretch on from the East Strand and are backed by dunes. The coast continues past Dunluce Castle to the Giant's Causeway (it was once possible to travel to these attractions from Portrush on the Giant's Causeway Tramway). A 13 ft high bronze sculpture,[12] inspired by the sails of local traditional boats, is located at East Strand ('To the People of the Sea' by Cork-based sculptor Holger Lönze).
Portrush is home to one of Northern Ireland's best known nightclubs. The Kelly's complex consists of a multitude of bars and clubs and is Northern Ireland's largest nightclub complex.[citation needed] It includes the nightclub Lush! which attracts many of the world's top DJs and hosts BBC Radio 1 events.
Portrush is also home to Barry's Amusements, the largest amusement park in Northern Ireland. Actor James Nesbitt once worked in Barry's.
The Skerries, a collection of rocks located just off the coast, are an important habitat for several species, some unique to Northern Ireland.
Portrush parkrun is a free, weekly, timed 5 km run along East Strand beach to the White Rocks and back.
Dji Phantom 4 Quadcopter Drone multi-rotor
Northern Ireland Nature - Portrush, Duncluce castle and White Rocks From Drone view
Dunluce Castle (from Irish: Dún Libhse) is a now-ruined medieval castle in Northern Ireland. It is located on the edge of a basalt outcropping in County Antrim (between Portballintrae and Portrush), and is accessible via a bridge connecting it to the mainland. The castle is surrounded by extremely steep drops on either side, which may have been an important factor to the early Christians and Vikings who were drawn to this place where an early Irish fort once stood.
Portrush & Portstewart
A day at the seaside 11 September 2014