Ballycastle - Travel & Tourism Guide Ballycastle - Irlande

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A quiet village with a beautiful beach (not to be confused with its namesake in Northern Ireland). Not far away, magnificent cliffs dropping sheer into the Atlantic Ocean conceal one of the world's best-known and most extensive archaeological sites, Céide Fields. The ancient cultivated fields of Céide Fields form a remarkable site of Neolithic remains: dwellings, tombs, altars, circles, low walls and other stones. Around 4,000 BC, Neolithic populations were farmers and herders. These fields, discovered in the 1930s, have been particularly well preserved thanks to the peat bog that covered them.