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We went to see the Giant's causeway on the weekend just before the start of the Celtic New Year on the Dark Moon of Samhain 09. I had always wanted to visit this volcanic rock formation and so I finally went on a short holiday with Niamh to visit the shoreline that looks at Rathlin Island and Scotland and the Sea of Moyle and of course the Bushmills Distillery. We stayed in a unique self catering place called the Drum Gatelodge - managed by the Landmark Trust. It is nicely set out with all the mod cons and it is surrounded by mature trees - see picture below.
The Drum Gatelodge, Bushmills
The actual causeway is magnificent in it geometries and grandeur. The effect was caused by the rapid cooling of basalt rock as it was forced up from beneath the earth by volcanic eruption many many thousand of years ago. The geometries of the basalt rock as it cooled created 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 sided pieces but the most common is the six sided section as shown below.
Sacred Geometries of basalt rock at the Giant's Causeway Ireland 09
The dynamic that makes the geometries form is the blueprint for life on this planet - this is the same six sided form as found with water, oak, quartz and in healthy humans. I gathered up some small pebbles and will place them on the Ancestor Memorial Cairn at Tara at the next full moon.
Huge vertical columns of basalt at the Giant's Causeway Ireland
The ancient stories about this rock formation is that an ancestor called Finn McCoole was fighting a giant from Scotland and they threw rocks at each other. This fanciful story was used to explain why Scotland and Ireland share the same basalt rock formation. Like an iceberg there is much more beneath the surface. The formation extends for many miles along both coasts and is joined by the Sea of Moyle as shown below.
Giant's Causeway and the Sea of Moyle
There are many castles with detailed history all along this coastline, as indeed there are many stories about Rathlin Island. Dunluce Castle and the Carrick a Rede rope bridge are profitable tourist attraction these days but on a little road where buses cannot go there sits the remains of an abandoned castle as shown below.
Abandoned castle on the Antrim Coast.
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