County Antrim

With rocky landscapes, stunning cliffs, sweeping valleys and crashing waves, the Antrim coast is truly spectacular. While the Causeway Coast might get the crowds, there's plenty more to see in this stunning county, including the nine wooded Glens of Antrim.

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Giants Causeway - County Antrim

Giant’s Causeway, is a geological wonder, renowned for its 40,000 polygonal columns of layered basalt. It is the only World Heritage Site in Northern Ireland. Resulting from a volcanic eruption 60 million years ago, this is the focal point for a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and has attracted visitors for centuries. Although legend has a different explanation: that the columns are the remains of a causeway built by an Irish giant Finn MacCool, who was challenged to a fight by a Scottish giant called Benandonner. Finn accepted the challenge and built the causeway across the sea between Ireland and Scotland so that the two giants could meet.

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