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The quaint village of Bushmills is a great base for families touring Northern Ireland’s County Antrim. Spend a 1/2 day at Giant’s Causeway, explore the Dunluce Castle, considered Ireland’s most romantic, and cross the swinging Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge near Ballintoy.
Leave the car behind: bike, walk or take a steam train ride. And should the kids need a break from the adventure and the great outdoors, take a leisurely stroll through the streets of Bushmills and take in the local architecture.
Don’t forget to pause along the River Bush and watch the silver bodied salmon as they make their way upriver to spawn.On the way to the Giant’s Causeway is the cultural town of Bushmills.
The town is steeped in history and is most famed for having the world’s oldest licensed Whiskey Distillery – The Bushmill’s Distillery. Licensed in 1608 it offers conducted tours and a visitor’s centre. On the outskirts of the town at the junction to Portballintrae, is a truly heritage experience – The Giant’s Causeway and Bushmills Railway.
Travel on a steam locomotive along the magnificent coastal stretch between Bushmills and the Giant’s Causeway. The railway has been built to the Irish narrow gauge of three feet and runs for two miles along the track bed of the former Giant’s Causeway Tramway which originally ran from Port rush to the Causeway.
The town of Bushmills is great place to spend some time in. There are several good Bistro’s and Cafes, with some nice gift shops and thee most amazing Greengrocers in the country – its call Glasses and well worth a visit.
Bushmills, a market and post-town, in that part of the parish of BILLY which is in the barony of CAREY, county of ANTRIM, and province of ULSTER, 6 1/4 miles (N.E. by N.)from Coleraine, and 125 1/2 (N.) from Dublin, containing 108 houses and 507 inhabitants.
This place is pleasantly situated near the mouth of the river Bush, from which it derives its name: it is neatly built, and is the general place of resort for parties visiting the Giant’s Causeway, about two miles distant, for whose accommodation a large and handsome hotel has been erected by Sir F. W. Macnaghten, Bart., who, in 18l7, established a weekly market here.
A distillery is carried on, and is much celebrated for the quality of its whiskey, of which about 12,000 gallons are annually made and principally sent to England, Scotland, the West Indies, and America.
There is a manufactory of spades, shovels, scythes, and sickles upon the river Bush; extensive paper-mills have been erected by F. V. Ward, Esq., for the supply of the home and Scottish markets, and near them are mills for flour and for dressing flax. The market is on Tuesday, and is well supplied with grain, linen yarn, pork, and provisions of all kinds; and fairs are held on Jan. 28th, March 28th, June 28th, July 21st, Oct. 21st, and Dec, 12th.
Here is a constabulary police station; and the petty sessions for the district are held every fortnight. The court house, a large and handsome building, recently erected by Sir F. W. Macnaghten, contains also apartments for the police, and some cells for the confinement of prisoners.
The parish church of Dunluce is situated in the town; and there are also a place of worship for
Presbyterians in connection with the Synod of Ulster, and one for Methodists. A school has been established by the trustees of Erasmus Smith’s charity, for the instruction of the children of parishioners, the master of which has a good house and two acres of land ; there are also several schools in various parts of the parish.
In the immediate neighbourhood is Bushmills House, the seat of Sir F. W. Macnaghten, Bart., who has made numerous improvements on his estate: the mansion is at present being rebuilt in a very splendid style, and with the grounds will form an interesting ornament to the place.
In the bed of the river, near the bridge, are some small but beautiful basaltic columns fantastically curved.
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Bushmills Distillery: In the seventh century A.D., the Irish began distilling a brandy-style whiskey made from grapes. By the mid-1500s, they were making whiskey from barley. The Irish called these beverages aqua vitae in Latin, or uisce beatha in Gaelic. Both names mean “water of life.”
Origins: Bushmills traces its founding back to 1608, when King James I granted Sir Thomas Phillips a royal license to distill whiskey in County Antrim.
The Factory: Exactly when the Bushmills Distillery opened is unknown, but the company was operating at least as early as 1743.
Significance: Bushmills claims to be “Ireland’s oldest whiskey distillery.” Furthermore, Bushmills insists that for 400 years, its malted barley recipe has remained unchanged. Even after 1850, when the British government taxed malted barley, Bushmills’ distillers refused to switch to untaxed unmalted barley.
Prohibition: In 1933, when Prohibition ended in the United States, Bushmills sent a ship filled with whiskey to Chicago. It is said to be the largest cargo ever to leave Ireland.
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