Portrush, Northern Ireland: Seaside Resort
More info about travel to Portrush: Portrush is Northern Ireland's favorite resort, filled with family-oriented amusements, fun eateries and cheap and cheery B and Bs.
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Portrush, Northern Ireland
Portrush is located along the same coast as the Giants Causeway. The coastal town is an ideal place to spend a weekend during good weather. Portrush has several sandy beaches were keen surfers may be able to catch a wave or two. You can ride the Big Dipper at Barrys amusements or just stroll along the promenade.
Portrush
Harry`s walkabouts Portrush, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Portrush Sea Rescue UTV trailer
Portrush Northern Ireland
Morning look at Portrush
East Strand, Portrush, Northern Ireland
This video is about the East Strand, Portrush in Northern Ireland and features an original surf guitar tune by Paul McIlwaine. Recorded in February 2015.
Portrush County Antrim Ireland
Portrush is a small seaside resort town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, on the County Londonderry border.
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
The beautiful Bushmills Suite, Royal Court Hotel, Portrush
We have been given permission to have a look around and video the excellent Bushmills Suite in the Royal Court Hotel Portrush. suite prices are very reasonable so it may not be long before we are making a reservation. Unfortunately this video was taken in the evening so I cannot show you the magnificent White Rocks beach and sea views you can enjoy from the suite.
The Royal Court Hotel is situated overlooking the harbour town of Portrush and its world famous Royal Portrush Golf Club with panoramic views of County Donegal. It occupies one of the best positions on Northern Ireland’s most famous coastline.
The Royal Court is a popular location for Weddings due to the stunning scenery, and can cater up to 350 guests in its luxurious Atlantic Suite. The Hotel is the perfect getaway for businesses with the excellent conference facilities on site. Restaurant facilities are available offering lunch, high tea and a la carte menus daily.
The Royal Court Hotel is in close proximity to the Giant’s Causeway, Old Bushmills Distillery and other major tourist attractions and offers an excellent base for golfers and watersports enthusiasts.
The Royal Court offers the perfect base not only for golfing, fishing and water sports but also for those who wish to explore the world famous Causeway Coast.
Portrush RNLI gallantry award - reconstruction
This is a reconstruction of the rescue that earned Portrush RNLI lifeboat mechanic Anthony Chambers a Bronze Medal for Gallantry at the charity's Annual Presentation of Awards 2010.
The medal was awarded in recognition of Anthony's part in rescuing two 14-year-old boys trapped by the rising tide in a cliff cave near Castlerock Strand on 5 August 2009.
Portrush Cruise Easter Sunday
Cars parked in Lansdowne carpark on Easter Sunday
Portrush Harbour
Portrush Harbour
The BEAST from the East, comes to Portrush 2018
Shadow & Willow @ Portrush when the Beast from the East strikes
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
A day at the Coast - Portrush | Everything Joel
Just clips of me cruising down Portrush on my Penny board. Enjoy!
Filmed with GoPro Hero 4 Silver
Song: Belleza - Question
British Heart Foundation Walk - Portrush to Giant's Causeway
Volunteers of the Prehen Lifestyle Centre and members of the Coleraine and Derry/Londonderry churches walked 13km from Portrush to the Giant's Causeway to raise funds and awareness for the British Heart Foundation. 12 November 2017
23/32 Portrush to Cleggan along the coast of Northern Ireland
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It's a five hour leg to Burtonport but heavy swell and poor conditions see Shark Bay take a break at Sheephaven where they come to the rescue of a stranded jet skier - what would have happened without help? Burtonport harbour proves something of a challenge...it's full of rocks and very difficult to navigate so Shark Bay follows other local fishing boats in and out! As the voyage continues thick sea fog descends before they reach Cleggan to refuel.
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23/32 Portrush to Cleggan along the coast of Northern Ireland
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We’re in Portrush and it’s been a really nice place to pull into. We’ve fuelled up nice and easy against the pontoon, got some supplies – more bread and water etc. With the weather being good, we’re going to just carry on, although it would be nice to just chill here – it’s red hot, really nice! Got shorts and a T-shirt on for a chance. But nah, we’re gonna carry on and try and make Burtonport this afternoon. We reckon it’s gonna be about 5 hours, about 80 odd miles. We’ll see how we go – we can pull in anywhere but that’s our next stop for fuel.
Well the day didn’t turn out quite as we’d planned it. We’d hoped to go around to Burtonport, moor there for the night and refuel, but the more we headed along the coast the worst the conditions seemed to get. We were getting wind against tide, there was a big swell coming in off the Atlantic. We were basically just getting tired. We’d had a long day – we’d come all the way from Campbeltown. We made a call – we decided we’d come in here. It’s another place we’d actually research very much – we looked in the pilot’s guides. It’s called Sheephaven, and in fact it’s a gorgeous bay.
But before we could settle down for the night, our services were called upon.
We’re moored in Sheephaven bay for the evening and a jet skier came out – he’s got in trouble. So we’ve had to cast off our moorings and we’re heading out now to pick him up. He’s been drifting way out to sea, so he’s in trouble. He tried repairing his engines himself, now he’s called us over, and we’re the only boat – the absolutely only boat – in the bay – nothing else. Don’t know what he’d do if we weren’t here! We’ll see if we can pull him in anyway.
Yeah.
Good deed of the day, eh?
A good deed by Eddie before he heads back to the studio in Cornwall in the morning.
Now this is what we wanted – a flat calm morning. It’s 6 o’clock and it’s what we dreamed we’d have. So we’re gonna head off now and see what the day brings.
Even with charts and plotter, the minefield of rocks and islets around the entrance to Burtonport harbour appeared to be impossible to navigate through. Luckily we spotted a local boat confidently heading in, so we tanked on close behind.
Just got the harbourmaster who was on his way out to go fishing. Another five minutes and we wouldn’t have been able to get any fuel – pure luck. It’s also pure luck that we managed to follow that other boat in too – very confusing here.
My ancestors came from this region – maybe Boyle the Butcher is one of my distant relatives!
It seemed sensible to tuck in close behind one of the ferries and follow it out through the obstacle course of the approaching Burtonport Harbour. Dreams don’t always come true, and this one certainly didn’t last for long. Calm, cold sea and bright sunshine equals thick sea fog that surrounded us for the next five hours.
What’s that!?
First time we’ve seen the sun for a few hours, isn’t it?
As we arrived in Cleggan the fog lifted, and right on schedule our tanker was reversing along the jetty. Exhausted after hours in thick fog and growing sea, and having cruised a very large sector of the west coast of Ireland without seeing anything, we decided to overnight there.
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EASTER TRIP TO PORTRUSH (PART 1)
Part one of our Easter Family trip to Portrush.
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Portrush Northern Ireland
East strand Portrush showing Royal Portrush Golf Course.