Giant

Benandonner

The Scottish giant of the Causeway’s popular ending.

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First met in print in 1832, in an Antrim farmer’s telling in the Dublin Penny Journal, where he is beaten and settles down in Ireland. The version in which he flees home tearing up the causeway is later. No meaning for his name is recorded.

Kin and bonds

At odds with Fionn mac Cumhaill

In the tales

Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway The strongest giant in Ireland is coming for Fionn. Fionn’s wife has a plan, a cradle and twenty-one iron griddles.

Sources

Collected folklore. Recorded from storytellers and local tradition.

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