We had a drive up the Dark Hedges in Amoy Northern Ireland (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmAKfkn11Qc). Amoy is a small village near Ballymoney in Co. Antrim - Northern part of Ireland. Amoy and Ballymoney have become more famous than usual lately due to the Dark Hedges on the Bregagh Road in the area. The hedges were very popular for their historic reasons - but of course lately the GOT / Game of Thrones TV show filming on the spot has brought the area world wide fame.
The whole idea behind that famous street is the avenue of beech trees which people move through - the thing is that those trees do not appear just in an ordinary way or line but they tend to form an atmospheric tunnel that give people the feeling as if they are walking inside it.
The time this place started to become popular and people started to visit it as a touristic place was all after it appeared in the Game of Thrones movie series that lots of people fell in love with its story as well as scenes - which lots of them were proudly taken in Northern Ireland.
The Dark Hedges is a very old place that was built when James Stuart built a new house back in 1775 and named it Gracehill House after the name of his wife. In order to create an imposing approach to that house, there were almost more than 100 beach trees planted there - and that was how the story of those old huge trees started.
There are some legends related to this place - which could appear a little bit terrifying for some people. The legends say that a ghost tends to visit the Dark Hedges at night and this ghost is named "The Grey Lady" who travels through the road and flits from one tree to the other; this ghost is believed to be of James Stuart's daughter or else one of the maids who died there in a mysterious way, or a spirit from an abandoned graveyard beneath the fields, who on Halloween is joined in her visitation by other spirits from the graveyard.
Those old trees appear so big and strong but in fact they might suffer different health conditions and even some of them were damaged and destroyed due to different weather conditions - this is considered important to let people take care while visiting this place and take all the precautions needed without heading there at times of the year when the weather might not be good.
Back in the eighteenth century when those trees where planted, the main reason was to impress the visitors coming to the Gracehill House, but now they even impress those who come to walk under those trees and check one of the locations related to the Game of Thrones movie series that was filmed there - the Stuart family would have been happy about such news :-)
Those huge trees are now considered one of the most photographed natural phenomena in Northern Ireland - so you should definitely go there while visiting Northern Ireland, you will never regret such a decision.
The Dark Hedges is not the only location in Northern Ireland in which the Game of Thrones movie was filmed, but there are lots of other places which we should refer to as well, such as the Cushendun Caves (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7dNEReGod4), Lough Neagh which has been referred to as the smoking sea (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COUaQZJ8-kI), the Ballintoy Harbour (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwkPhKBbi84), Toome Canal (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1KqyF3tj7Y), Binevenagh Mountain (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYQXeJm4D2o), Portstewart Beach (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD73BZpr0hg), Larrybane (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RXOUknZ5N4), Downhill Beach Castlerock (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DhqUuCqhC8), and you could also check the Causeway Coastal Road Trip which we have once made which includes different sites related to Game of Thrones filming locations (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-k4dDegBR2I).
In addition to these places, there are different doors which appeared in the movies of Game of Thrones that some of them happen to be in Northern Ireland as well, such as the 10th door (S6, EP 9) which was in the Dark Horse Bar in Belfast (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEU1fHE50Sk), Door number 3 which was in Percy French Restaurant in Newcastle County Down (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONv66SEr5FQ), door number 4 which was in the Blakes of Hollow Pub in Enniskillen County Fermanagh (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqCYN1_pI-E), door number 6 in Fullerton Arms in Ballintoy (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGZdoJdaWkg), door number 8 in Cushendun (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyDD3LdIHu4), door number 9 in Ballygally Castle Hotel (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SnEqs1sBIU), and eventually you could also meet the dire wolves who were chosen to play their roles in the movie and who also happen to be Irish (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaF8voMxGc8).
It is a nice walk - you will see a few cars and people walking - often at weekends - buses will also come - so best to visit at a quiet time, if possible.
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