멀린드레스 최고의 워킹 & 하이킹 경로

Nothing much to see

Very short route (2 km), suitable for everyone, but suggestive: it crosses meadows and then skirts a small marshy area and a coast where you can spot many typical animals and flowers that create a great atmosphere. Several benches to stop, really relaxing.

Lovers of authentic and picturesque lighthouses will get their money's worth here! The Rathlin East Lighthouse is a historic lighthouse built in 1856.

View of the lighthouse

This is an excellent lookout point to view the east leg of Rathlin, Rathlin harbour and across to the Northern Ireland coast. There are two large picnic tables here, and it's easily accessible for families with kids.

Rathlin Island, an island between Ireland and Scotland, can only be reached by sailors within a narrow time window, outside of which it gets bumpy because of the races and overfalls. About 100 people live here, some of whom we met yesterday in the pub. If you want to move here, you have to accept a poll and a vote from those who already live here, I don't know whether that will take place in the pub or the church.

The building was built by the Gage family in the mid-1700s, it was used as a warehouse for the seaweed. There was also a person here to keep the accounts and operate the scales. The house was also used to store grain and other agricultural products. Trade was mainly with Scotland and the seaweed was exchanged for coal as fuel was scarce on the island. The building later became a music, dance and theater venue and therefore remains a special place on the island. The building has been rebuilt again and again over the past 200 years, the traces can be seen.

There is a sea lion colony by the cliffs before and after the ruin. But you are very shy.