Game of Thrones filming at Knocklayde, Northern Ireland
By Dan Selcke
Filming for Game of Thrones Season 6 may have wrapped in Spain, but there’s still plenty of activity in Northern Ireland: Riverrun in Corbet, lord knows what inside studio space in Belfast, and…something in the Knocklayde area. The folks at the Ballymoney Times spotted the production’s telltale pink signs in the area. We’re not exactly what’s going on in the area, but something’s up.
That’s some activity around a stone bridge that marks and old railway that used to run from Ballymoney to Ballycastle, two small towns in County Antrim. According to the Times, filming will be taking place this week at the Hillside road in Ballycastle.
The Game of Thrones production has filmed along the old Ballymoney to Ballycastle railway before. The famous Dark Hedges, an odd tree formation that lies about halfway between Ballymoney and Ballycastle, stood in for the Kingsroad back in Season 2, as Arya and Gendry headed north from King’s Landing.
But to fans of Game of Thrones it will be more recognisable as the Kings Road and the Dark Hedges of Armoy pic.twitter.com/ER2A5GWY5b
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There have also been reports that a crew was filming at a disused quarry on the side of Knocklayde Mountain, so that whole area may one day be wall-to-wall Game of Thrones tourist locations.
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