Glenarm Castle sits in an enviable location at the western end of its attractive village, surrounded by an elegant park. The salmon- and trout-rich Glenarm River and adjacent forest margin the park to the south, but a very short walk northwards from the castle brings you to a crescent bay and the rugged Antrim seashore. From here, you can see Scotland on a clear day, notably the Mull of Kintyre, not far away.

A big draw at Glenarm, especially in summer, is its four-acre, trapezoid walled garden, built in the 1820s to shelter all the fruit and vegetable produce then required by the castle. Today, it is primarily ornamental, but productivity has been reinstated, via a small and very charming potager just over the wall, beside the old gardeners’ bothy and mushroom house.

Within the walled g

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