Rathlin Island

Today’s the day ................ for a ‘drowned magpie’

A ‘drowned magpie’ was the way that Charles Kingsley described Rathlin Island in Westward Ho (1855).

And I can see what he means. Black and white are the colours that stand out in the cliffs as you cross Rathlin Sound from Ballycastle on the mainland. The island sits on a bed of white chalk above which the predominant rock is a dark basalt...................