 The Giant's Causeway, located within Northern Ireland, it is claimed as a natural formation, the result of a peculiar ancient volcanic fissure eruption. An array of about 40,000 suspiciously artificially appearing interlocking basalt columns, precisely located in County Antrim, upon the northern coast of Northern Ireland, although the causeway was named, quote, the fourth greatest natural wonder in the UK, end quote. There is another more controversial, and many others insist, a far more intriguing theory for how the causeway came into being. Declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1986, a National Nature Reserve in 1987, by the Department of the Environment for Northern Ireland. However, according to local legend, the columns are instead the remains of a once artificially built structure, once built by ancient giants. The story states that the Irish Giant, Pheon Maccamale, was challenged to a duel by a Scottish Giant known as Beneddonner. Pheon supposedly accepted this challenge, and built the causeway so that the two giants could collide in battle. In one version, Pheon defeats Beneddonner. In another, Pheon hides from Beneddonner, when he realizes that Pheon is much bigger than he. Predictably, due to the age of the causeway, and said subsequent legends, variants have arose over the ages. Yet interestingly, the legends have survived, and indeed persisted, as a possible explanation for the causeway's existence. Another variant, telling a Pheon's wife, disguising Pheon as an infant, tucking him in a cradle. He continues that Beneddonner, according to said legend, sees the size of the baby, perceiving it not to be Pheon, but that he instead must have been its father, and that Pheon must be of gigantic proportions. He fled back to Scotland, destroying the causeway behind him, so that Pheon would be unable to chase him across the sea. The majority of the columns are hexagonal in shape. Some columns, however, possess four, five, seven, or even eight angled sides, the tallest being 12 meters, created from pure solidified lava. Was the causeway, as the legends tell, once created by ancient giants? Or is it merely a curiously artificial-looking natural formation? Regardless, we find giants causeway, and indeed its attached legends, highly compelling.