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Local attractions
Ballycastle is an attractive market town and the port for reaching Rathlin Island; it is noted for its Lammas Fair held over the summer bank holiday at the end of August and dating from 1606.
It is also a well-known seaside resort. It is beautifully situated where Glenshesk and Glentaise converge at Ballycastle Bay.
The town proper is 1 1/2 miles (2 km) inland and is connected with the smaller seaside part by a broad tree-planted avenue. At the seafront a picnic site is a memorial to Guglielmo Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, who in 1899 made his first successful cross-water transmissions between Ballycastle and Rathlin |sland.
The old stone harbour long since silted in now houses a superb Pavilion, ten of the finest grass tennis courts in Ireland (two floodlit) and an excellent bowling green.
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