Giant

Far Rua

The red-haired Scottish giant in Patrick Kennedy’s telling (1866).

Open it on the full site There every name opens, and a web shows who is kin to whom.

He crosses the causeway to fight Fionn, meets the “baby”, and goes home the way he came, leaving the road unbroken.

Kin and bonds

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.

Collected folklore. Recorded from storytellers and local tradition.

Each tale above lists the sources it is retold from. Every source the site draws on is listed on the full site.