Qualla: Bushmills, County Antrim https://qualla.com/bushmills-county-antrim en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bushmills, County Antrim https://qualla.com/bushmills-county-antrim Bushmills, County Antrim: Introduction https://qualla.com/bushmills-county-antrim/ Bushmills owes its name to two things you would notice on the same walk - the small fast River Bush running off the basalt of the Antrim plateau, and the watermill that early seventeenth-century settlers built to use its water. The village wears its trade on its sleeve. A short walk through Main Street puts you within a stone's throw of one of the most famous whiskey distilleries in the world, and a slightly longer walk takes you across fields and dunes to the Giant's Causeway, two miles north on the coast. Twelve hundred people live here. Two million visitors come to the rocks. Bushmills is the village in between.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/6/bushmills-county-antrim-wp/gcg6-bushmills-county-antrim-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bushmills, County Antrim: A 1608 Licence https://qualla.com/bushmills-county-antrim/ King James I granted a licence to distil aqua vitae in this part of the north Antrim coast in 1608. The Old Bushmills Distillery, which built its identity on that grant, claims status as the world's oldest licensed distillery. Whether 1608 is the oldest depends on how you read th...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/g/6/bushmills-county-antrim-wp/gcg6-bushmills-county-antrim-what-the-census-says.mp3 0:06 4 full Bushmills, County Antrim: A Walk to the Causeway https://qualla.com/bushmills-county-antrim/ The most beautiful way to leave Bushmills is on foot. A seven-mile coastal walk runs from Portrush, past the ruins of Dunluce Castle perched on its sea stack, along the Causeway and Bushmills Railway line, and on to the Causeway itself. The Belfast-Derry railway connects the area...

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