The Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge, County Antrim - Blog Five

 Hello hello everyone, and welcome back to the Bridges of Ireland Blog on Blogger, today we are looking at a particularly unusual bridge, the Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge in County Antrim. 

Located near the village on Ballintoy, the bridge connects the island of Carricarede (Irish for 'Rock of the Casting') to the mainland. The bridge is twenty meters long and is thirty meters above the rocks below. It is a tourist attraction to visitors who climb across it to see the island, and it is owned by the National Trust. It costs £9 to cross the bridge, and it can hold eight people at a time. It has been thought that salmon fishermen have been building bridges to the island for over 350 years, and the bridge has changed a lot over time. In the 1970's the bridge only had one handrail and had large gaps between the planks, though the bridge is much safer now, and has two handrails. Many tourists have been intimidated by it's height however, and some have been to scared to cross the bridge again back to the mainland and have had to have been helicoptered off the island.

That's all for this week's entry, goodbye goodbye!