NORTHERN IRELAND – Places of interest

Kateřina Horská

Outline

• Giant´s Causeway• Belfast • Castles• Other places to see

Giant´s Causeway

General information

• Area of basalt(čedič) columns

• Resulting from volcanic eruptions

• Sutuation: County Antrim

• Protected by UNESCO

Legend

• Giant Fionn Mac Cumhaill (Finn McCool) built the causeway to walk to Scotland to fight his Scottish enemy Benandonner

• He fell asleep before he got to Scotland. When he didn't arrive, the much larger Benandonner crossed the bridge looking for him.Wife of Finn wanted to protect her husband so she laid a blanket over him. Then she said Benandoner he was actually Finn's baby When Benandonner saw the size of the 'infant', he realized how big his father Finn had to be and fled home in terror, destroying the Causeway in case he was followed by Finn.

Pictures

Giant Causeway Organ

Belfast

Victorian architecture

Queen´s University of Belfast

• Victorian style• 1849

Dry dock

• Largest in the world

Windsor House

• The highest skyscraper in Ireland

• 23 floors

Belfast City Hall Belfast Castle

Albert Clock

Castles

Dunluce castle – Antrim coast Carrickfergus Castle

Kirkistown Castle Monea castle

Other places to see

Mussenden Temple

• built in 1785 • the erosion has

brought Mussenden Temple closer to the edge

Lough Neagh

• the largest lake in the United Kingdom

                                                                                                       

                               

Murlough National Nature Reserve

• Sand dune system• location at the edge of

Dundrum Bay and the Mourne Mountains

Beaghmore Stone Circles

• a complex of early Bronze Age megalithic stones

Boa Island

• One of several islands in Loch Erne

• Famous for its statues• A pagan stone statue

called Janus from the 4th or 5th century (double-sided)

Thank you for your attention!!!

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