Giants Causeway – legend has it this was part of a causeway built by Finn MacCool, so he could get to Scotland)
To quote from wikipedia, Free Derry was a self-declared autonomous nationalist area of Derry, Northern Ireland, between 1969 and 1972. Its name was taken from a sign painted on a gable wall in the Bogside in January 1969 which read, “You are now entering Free Derry”. It was in this area that Bloody Sunday happened.
Malin Head (the northern-most point of Ireland, which is actually in the Republic of Ireland, not Northern Ireland).
Turf – we saw a lot of turf-cutting going on. Next time I’m in South West Tasmania I’ll know to just cut out a few bricks of that spongy stuff I’m walking on, to let it dry out and make a nice fire out of later on.
