The story goes that Irish giant Fionn Mac Cumhaill and
Scottish giant Benandonner were having a spat over social media or something
when Benandonner challenged Fionn to a fight, to which Fionn agreed.
However, as Benandonner was travelling across from Scotland
on the causeway that is supposed to have joined both countries in those days,
Fionn realised that Benandonner was a lot bigger than his profile picture had
led him to believe and that he was in over his head. Thinking quickly, Fionn
climbed into a cradle and persuaded his wife Oonagh to disguise him as a baby.
When Benandonner arrived, he was first introduced to Fionn’s ‘baby son’.
Benandonner, being all brawn and less brain, realised that
if this was the size of Fionn’s baby, then Fionn must be absolutely massive!
Offering his condolences to Oonagh on what obviously must have been a tough
pregnancy, he ran off, destroying the causeway behind him.
And that is how the 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the
result of an ancient volcanic eruption, whose strange hexagonal shape have made
them one of the island’s most popular tourist attractions and one of our few
UNESCO-listed sites, became known as the Giant’s Causeway.
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