The magnificent rock of harsh Ireland (14 photos)

Dun Brist Rock is located 80 meters from Downpatrick Head, its height is 45 meters.





She moored in the northern part of Ireland and is a popular attraction in County Mayo. Get on her green meadow without having the skills of a climber you are unlikely to succeed.



Regarding their fellows, the sea stack (as they are called rocks that were once connected to the land by a sheer wall or a crumbling arch) in among the youngest - the forces of nature separated it from the land in 1393.





There is no confirmation of this, however, local legends preserved mention of the inhabitants of the cliff, who lost their land bridge and were forced to move from the cliff to the mainland on ropes.



Dan Brist, translated from the Gaelic language, means - destroyed fortress (collapsed fort). However, the fortress as such is never here. It was. The only time the surface of the rock was explored refers to 1980. Then its habitability was confirmed.



Foundations, tools and fences were found here - presumably cattle pens. After in 1990 the stack was conquered climbers, and then someone desperate risked his life in 2016. How there is no such ban on climbing, but there is also no permission.



I am embarrassed by the idea of ​​settling on the edge of the earth.

Imagine that you and your children and animals settled in a conditional city ​​on the coast, but not within the boundaries of the equipped embankment, but somewhere to the side - on a steep bank. How many days are left of the tragedy when your child jumps out to look at the seagulls and will be blown away by the wind in raging ocean waters? And here is the northern part of Ireland! Makes to think.



The cliff near which the stack is located is a place of pilgrimage Catholics. The ruins of the church and the statue of St. Patrick have been preserved here.



Multi-colored layers of mineral rock began to form over 300 million years ago - the era of the lower Carboniferous period. Truth there are geologists who dispute this and talk about hundreds of thousands of years, and not millions. Now there is a reverse process - the sea and the weather slowly, millimeter by millimeter destroys the steep coast.








Nearby is a natural grotto, from which during storms billow spray! plunging into it along an equipped descent you can see a distant gleam, and especially desperate ones can try swim in icy water under the thickness of rocks to the ocean and back.