On a bright morning after rain, wet basalt columns step like a honeycomb into a blue, white-flecked sea beneath a tall columned cliff, Scotland faint on the horizon.

Ulaid · Ulster

Clochán na bhFomhórach

The Giant's Causeway · Co. Antrim

The stepping-stones of the Fomorians.

Open it on the full site There it is marked on the map of the five fifths, where the road of a tale can be traced.

Some forty thousand basalt columns, most of them six-sided, formed as lava cooled and cracked fifty to sixty million years ago. Tradition made them a road to Scotland built by Fionn. The official Irish name today is Clochán an Aifir; the older literary name remembers the Fomorians. A UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1986.

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.

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