Portrush,

Portrush, a watering-place in County Antrim, 6½ miles by rail N. of Coleraine, and 7 W. by S. of the Giants' Causeway, with which it is connected by an electric tramway (1883). The town is built on the isthmus of a short peninsula, looking to the Causeway cliffs on the one side, and to Inishowen and almost Malin Head on the other. It has fine stretches of firm sand for bathing, and has communications by steamer with Morecambe and Glasgow. Pop. 1322.