Formed by volcanic activity 60,000,000 years ago, the Giant’s Causeway is the most popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland. It is located on the northeast coast of Northern Ireland, in County Antrim and is two miles north of the town of Bushmills.

The causeway consists of approximately 40 thousand, mainly hexagonal, basalt columns formed when volcanic lava intruded into the chalk layers, cooled rapidly. These columns can be as high as 36 feet tall and lead from the cliff face into the sea.

Irish legend tells that the causeway was built by a mythical warrior who wished to attack his counterpart in Scotland. The site became popular as a tourist attraction in the ninetieth century and suffered from a large degree of commercial exploitation, including a tramway that was built to bring visitors to the site.

When the National Trust acquired the site in the 1960’s, they did a lot of work to restore the site and to remove the worst traces of this development. Today, visitors can walk over the basalt blocks. Due to a fire in 2000, there is no visitor centre on the site currently but is hoped that a new centre will be opened in 2012. The site is a national nature reserve and a World Heritage Site. The Giant’s Causeway is owned by the National Trust.

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