While CGI was used to enhance the appearance, you can still easily see the resemblance between those clifftop towers and rope bridges across the stormy waves below Pyke.
What is dead may never die! Dunluce Castleĭunluce Castle is actually a castle ruin situated on the edge of a basalt outcrop about 20 minutes drive from Ballintoy Harbour.Įxterior shots of the castle ruins were used in filming to represent the clifftop location of Castle Pyke, the seat of House Greyjoy. This is also where Theon re-pledges his allegiance to the Drowned God by nearly-drowning, as part of their harsh religion. Ballintoy Beachīallintoy Beach, just next to the main harbour, was also used for filming some pretty important Iron Island scenes, like the funeral for Balon Greyjoy.
Many scenes depicting the Iron Islands were filmed in this pretty and rocky harbour town, like when Theon returns home for the first time after years in Winterfell, as well as when he ships out again on his new ship “The Sea Bitch”.
Ballintoy Harbour is located on the Northern Ireland coast just outside of Ballintoy, which is about an hour’s drive from Belfast.
