Authorities are urging visitors to stop jamming pocket change between the basalt columns that make up the Giant’s Causeway, a national nature reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site on the coast ...

In 2024, the Giant’s Causeway, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, received more than 684,000 visitors, with many leaving coins in the gaps between its estimated 40,000 columns. According to ...

The Giant's Causeway has faced many threats to its survival ... "By removing them, it means we're stopping any further physical impact on the site itself. We're also stopping that chemical ...

Scores of coins have been left wedged into the cracks of the basalt rock columns of the Giant’s Causeway in north Antrim. Reflecting the broad spectrum of visitors to the attraction, the coins ...

Tourists risk destroying Northern Ireland’s iconic Giant’s Causeway rocks by jamming coins ... it means we're stopping any further physical impact on the site itself. We're also stopping ...

It attracts nearly 700,000 visitors each year. But Northern Ireland's Giant's Causeway, part of an iconic hiking route along the exposed Northern Ireland coast, is being irreparably damaged by ...

Some of the coins removed from the world heritage site. Photo: PA Tourists are damaging the Giant’s Causeway by jamming coins into the cracks of the stones. Coins have been left wedged into the ...

(CNN) — 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 ...