“Sure it’s a pity but Finn is away hunting deer in County Kerry. She opened the door to Benandonner saying, Finn would not answer the door, so his wife shoved him in the great bath with a couple of sheets over him.įinn’s wife, Oonagh, thought quickly. Red Man’s spear was as tall and thick as a Round-Tower, and he used it to knock on the door of the Fort-of-Allen. But as soon as he saw the Scot getting closer and closer on the causeway, he realised Benandonner was much, much bigger than he had imagined! Finn skidaddled back home to the Fort-of-Allen in County Kildare, and told his wife he’d picked a fight but had thought better of it now.įinn heard the stamping feet of Benandonner from Kilcock, and when those feet got to Robertstown, Finn had to stuff five pounds of moss into each ear. One day he shouted a challenge to the Scottish giant Benandonner, The Red Man, to cross the causeway and fight him. He built it of unusual six-sided cobblestones, so they would fit neatly together like a honeycomb, and they made a very pretty pavement indeed! Finn was so angry, and determined to get at them, that he built a whole causeway from Ulster across the sea to Scotland. Stories are told of one great Irish Giant, Finn MacCool, whose most fearsome enemies were the Scottish giants.
For many years the local people have named them “Giant’s Graves” There are many stone tombs here, five thousand years old, made of enormous boulders that could not possibly be lifted by one man, or even a whole family of ordinary men. Its landscape is fabulously beautiful – it has towering cliffs and rocky hills, winding rivers and scooped-out lakes that look like they could have been made by the hands of slightly crazy giants. Ulster is the most Northern of Ireland’s ancient kingdoms.
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