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Giants Causeway, on the North East coast of Ireland in County Antrim, is actually the real name for this geologic monument with volcanic rock formations pushed up in hexagonal forms

"The story of the causeway
by Clive Barbour

The giants were called Finn McCoul & Bennendonner.

Benendoner was a Scottish giant who came over to Ulster by building the causeway. Finn McCoul the Irish giant was frightened but decided to dress up as a baby in order to frighten Benendonner - if this was the size of the bairn what was the father like! - so he fled back to Scotland destroying the causeway which can now only be seen at both its ends in County Antrim in Northern Ireland and on the isle of Staffa in Fingal's cave. Incidentally Finn McCoul was also responsible for creating Lough Neagh in the middle of Ulster by picking up a clod of earth and throwing it at another giant in Scotland. He miss-aimed and it fell into the sea and became the Isle of man halfway between Ireland and England."








Ireland, Ulster
Image size
531x800px 143.31 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 300D DIGITAL
Shutter Speed
1/320 second
Aperture
F/13.0
Focal Length
52 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Aug 17, 2004, 5:05:24 PM
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aarghj's avatar
i don't know if you are aware, but this is the location where the cover of led zeppelin's album 'houses of the holy' was shot ([link]). :horns: