The Glens Hotel in the Heart of the Glens of Antrim. They Glens of Antrim are naturally unique - within twenty or so square miles you can enjoy a variations in natural landscape that includes glacial valley's, sandy beaches, vertical cliffs, tundra plateau, wooded glens, waterfalls and picturesque villages. Ancient sites and places of intrigue abound - it is well worth taking a couple of days, investing in a standard ordnance map and go exploring the small roads that weave throughout the Glens.

From Ballycastle you ascend up to Ballyvoy - here you have a choice of two roads. The more narrow, winding but extremely beautiful and spectacular Torr Scenic Road which will take you past the small lanes leading to Fair Head, Murlough Bay and Torr Head itself. The road then follows the coast at an altitude which allows you to enjoy some wonderful views across to Scotland and the Mull of Kintyre, the road passes the ancient cashel of Altagore and descends past Carra Castle into Cushendun.

The other route follows the main Antrim Coast Road through Ballypatrick Forest Park and past Loughareema - the vanishing lake. At the highest point of the road you will get a superb panoramic view over Glendun, Glencorp, Glenaan, Glenballyemon and Glenariff before descending into Glendun and over the famous Charles Lanyon viaduct bridge - this is well worth seeing as it is a 'classic' example of bridge design and construction dating to 1832. The road continues through Castle Green where the Cushendun road rejoins and takes you through the length of Glencorp and into Cushendall.

Cushendall lies close to where the river Dall flows into Cushendall Bay - the name derives from an Irish word meaning 'Foot of the Dall', another suggestion appears in the Ordnance Survey Memoirs of 1830-38 which refers to Cushendall being a corruption of the word Bunindalla or Bun-an-daaa meaning 'the foot of the the two rivers'' - the river Dall forms just outside the village from the union of the Glenann and Glenballyemon rivers. Like many Ulster villages it is endowed with wonderful architecture, the summits of Lurigethan and Tievebulliagh overlook the village and adjacent glens which themselves are scattered with traces of ancient man's existence here since Neolithic times. The village developed from the 1600's with the advent of water mills and the migration of Scottish settlers.