Northern Ireland's rugged and beautiful Antrim coast attracted little attention long ago. But in 1692 the bishop of derry visted and returned with word of some spectacular rock formation. Its a place of beauty encompassing 18 miles of spectacular cliffs which the rock rise to over 300 feet the bizarre formation include more than 38,000 polygonal basalt columns many over 40 feet high. But i kid you not these rock the causeway was the result of in tense volcanic activity that took place some 60 million years ago( now there a place to go). Molten rock poured out over the landscape to form deep pools of lava the contraction of the rock as it cooled in the air and water resulted in the formation of the many sided columns of basalt. this place as got MYTH AND MAGIC. Legend told that the causeway was in fact the architecture of celtic giant and the Irish hero Finn McCool this is the most common one that a rival giant Benandonner lived across the Irish sea on the Hebridean island of Staffa . A fight had been brewing for some time but Finn couldn't find a boat big enough to take him across the water.So he began to build a causeway-a pathway from land to land across water. But when Finn saw the size of his rival , he chose brain over brawn.Instead of crossing the causeway to challenge the much bigger Benandonner he let his Scottish nemesis come to him.When he arrived, Finn disguised himself as a baby and jumped in to a cot. Some stories then go that Benandonner attempted to touch the baby and the disguised Finn bit off his finger .Others say his wife gave him rock to eat and his teeth fell out. Either way ,when the scot saw baby Finn he wasn't hanging around to see how big his father was so hotfooted it back across the causeway as fast as he could. Nothing was left but the columnar foundations at either end. Across the water on staffa island is a 227-footcave-fingal'scave-is formed of similar hexagoally joined basalt a must see place