According to a famous Irish legend, the Giant’s Causeway was built by the mythological hero Finn McCool. The story goes that Finn was provoked into a fight with a Scottish giant named Benandonner. In order to reach each other – for there was a sea between their homes – Finn McCool built the causeway over the North Channel. The Scottish giant could now come to Ireland and settle their dispute face to face. However, when Finn saw the enormous size of his adversary during his arrival, he realized he had made a mistake, and recognized that Benandonner was far larger and fiercer than he was. Swiftly, he devised a cunning plan. He asked his wise and quick-thinking wife to disguise him as their newborn baby. When Benandonner arrived and saw the ‘baby’, he could only imagine how gigantic the father would be. Terrified by the prospect of meeting the baby’s father, Benandonner fled back to Scotland, destroying the Causeway so Finn could not follow him. All that remains of this once mighty bridge is what we can see today at either ends – at The Giant’s Causeway in Northern Ireland, and on the isle of Staffa in Scotland – both boasting identical basalt columns as evidence of an ancient route.