Visitors stuffing coins into Northern Ireland’s famed basalt columns are unintentionally damaging this natural wonder and ...

Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction ... interlocking columns were made by an Irish giant named Finn McCool so that he could cross the Irish Sea to fight a ...

The National Trust has confirmed it expects to remove all coins wedged into cracks of the basalt rock of Co Antrim’s famous Giant’s Causeway. It follows a report by the British Geological ...

Visitors to the Giant’s Causeway, the world-famous tourist attraction in Northern Ireland, are being urged not to indulge in the popular ritual of wedging coins in between the site’s iconic stones.

Small coins are causing giant problems at one of Northern Ireland’s most famous natural sites. Authorities are urging visitors to stop jamming pocket change between the basalt columns that make up the ...

According to legends, the site was formed by Irish giant Finn McCool who created the causeway to get across the Irish Sea to face his rival, the Scottish giant Benandonner. The mighty Benandonner ...

Northern Ireland’s World Heritage Site is being damaged by visitors leaving coins in the cracks of the famous stones. Scores of coins have been left wedged into the cracks of the basalt rock columns ...

Visitors to the Giant's Causeway have been urged to stop wedging ... legend has it that it was formed by an Irish giant named Finn McCool who wanted to cross the Irish Sea to Scotland.

Fionn mac Cumhaill/ Finn McCool. The National Trust protects and cares for more than 40,000 columns at the Giant’s Causeway, which is Northern Ireland’s first Unesco World Heritage Site and ...

The coins, that tourists leave behind for love or luck, are having a devastating impact on the world-famous heritage site ...