Located at the foot of the basalt cliffs along the sea coast at the edge of the Antrim Plateau in Northern Ireland, the Path of the Giants is made up of about 40,000 columns of massive black basalt jutting out from the sea. These formations over the past 300 years have greatly contributed to the development of Earth sciences, and showed that this amazing spectacle was due to volcanic activity during the Third Age; About 50-60 million years ago.