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THE CREATION OF LOUGH NEAGH AND THE ISLE OF MAN
The warrior Fin McCool was chasing a Scottish giant across Ulster, unable to quite reach him he bent down and scooped out a huge divot and flung it at the disappearing giant. The throw was of such a range it overtook the giant, and carried on out into the Irish Sea, with a massive splash the Isle of Man was created in the Irish Sea between England and Northern Ireland. Whilst, the hole in the ground where Fin McCool grabbed the divot of earth quickly filled with water creating Lough Neagh! See on the Map-olah map: www.zeemaps.com/view?group=2653234&item=The_Creation_of_Lough_Neagh_and_the_Isle_of_Man
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On the north coast of County Antrim can be found around 40,000 interlocking hexagonal basalt columns, said to have been made into a causeway by the Irish giant Finn MacCool so that he could fight the Scottish giant Benandonner.
The other end of the causeway is located on the Scottish Isle of Staffa, at Fingal's Cave, with its identical basalt columns. The geological feature can also be put down to the cooling of volcanic activity in the area 50 - 60 million years ago. |
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