Looking seaward from the middle of the basalt causeway the extends into the Irish Sea in the general direction of Scotland. Legend has it the Irish giant Finn McCool apparently walked this causeway to Scotland to fight the giant Benandonner, commonly known as the Red Man, only to see he was much bigger. He rushed back home and had his wife hide him, pretending he was a baby. When the Scottish giant saw this 6’-6” baby he surmised that the father must be huge and ran back to Scotland.