Fair Head
Fair Head or Benmore is a five-kilometre-long, 200-metre-high, mountain cliff, close to the sea, at the north-eastern corner of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Cape
- Description: dolerite mountain cliff, Northern Ireland
- Also known as: “Benmore”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballyvoy and Ballycastle.
Ballyvoy
Village
Photo: David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ballyvoy is a small village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is on the main A2 coast road 5 km east of Ballycastle and 17 km north west of Cushendall. Ballyvoy is situated 2½ miles southwest of Fair Head.
Ballycastle
Photo: Adam Bishop, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ballycastle is a small fishing port and beach resort, historically in County Antrim in Northern Ireland. Those counties have been abolished so the town is now in Causeway Coast and Glens District, and in 2011 had a population of 5237.
Fair Head
- Categories: climbing area and landform
- Location: Causeway Coast and Glens, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Fair Head” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Fair Head”
- Breton: “An Bhinn Mhór”
- Cebuano: “Benmore Head”
- Czech: “Fair Head”
- Dutch: “Fair Head”
- French: “Fair Head”
- Irish: “An Bhinn Mhór, Contae Aontroma”
- Irish: “An Bhinn Mhór”
- Japanese: “フェア・ヘッド”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fair Head”
- Swedish: “Benmore Head”
- Swedish: “Fair Head”
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Localities in the Area
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