Glenarm Castle & Garden
Museums & Science Centres · Belfast, Belfast & Antrim
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Closed — opens 10am
🏠 Indoor & outdoorSeasonal openingSchool holiday activitiesMemberships available🐐 Animals🛝 PlaygroundAdventure play🌲 WoodlandGardensCastleEducational
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
- Dogs welcome
Hourly charge 17 Mar-31 Oct: up to 1hr GBP0.50, up to 3hr GBP1.00, up to 5hr GBP2.00, all day GBP3.00. Free for Walled Garden/Woodland Walk/Heritage Centre ticket holders, Castle Tour and Mini Land Rover ticket holders, members and accommodation guests. Free Fri-Sat 17:00-22:00 for Pizza Pavilion visitors. Disabled bays in main car park and beside Tea Room.
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Glenarm Castle is the ancestral home of the McDonnell family, Earls of Antrim, set in a working estate at Glenarm on the Antrim coast. Visitors can explore the award-winning 18th-century Walled Garden (winner of the Historic Houses Garden of the Year Award), enjoy woodland walks with views across the estate, and discover local history in the Antrim McDonnell Heritage Centre. Families are well catered for with the Woodland Adventure Play Area, Mini Land Rover Experience and a packed programme of events including the famous Tulip Festival. The estate also has a tea room, pizza pavilion and a courtyard of independent shops.
Kids Go FREE in July & August: children under 12 get FREE admission to the Walled Garden, Woodland Walk and Heritage Centre. Car parking charged hourly 17 Mar-31 Oct (free for ticket holders, members, accommodation guests).
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- Rucksack
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Audiobook or story CD
- Sunglasses
- Kitchen roll
- Backseat organiser
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