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Fingal's Cave

A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology | 2004 | | Copyright

Fingal's Cave. An imposing basaltic cavern on the now uninhabited island of Staffa in the Inner Hebrides, 6 miles N of Iona. Popular tradition, unsupported by the text of The Poems of Ossian, has associated the cave with James Macpherson's character Fingal. Felix Mendelssohn brought the cave to European attention by using the name ‘Fingal's Cave’ as the subtitle of his Hebrides Overture (1829). ‘Fingal’ is a part of more than twenty other place-names in the Scottish Highlands, e.g. Fingal's Grave, near Killin, Perthshire; Fingal's Seat, a mountain at the head of Portree Loch, Isle of Skye; Fingal's Griddle, ancient remains north-west of Sunart, Argyllshire, etc.

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Fingal's Cave

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2011 | Copyright

Fingal's Cave , cavern, 227 ft (69 m) long, celebrated for its unusual beauty, on Staffa island, one of the Inner Hebrides, W Scotland. The entrance is an archway supported by basaltic columns 20 to 40 ft (6.1–12.2 m) high. The cave is inundated by the sea. Felix Mendelssohn composed an overture called The Hebrides or Fingal's Cave.

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Fingal's Cave

A Dictionary of British Place-Names | 2003 | | Copyright

Fingal's Cave Arg (Staffa). Fingal is the legendary Irish giant Fionn Mac Cumhail. The Gaelic name of the cave is An Uamh Binn, ‘the melodious cave’, referring to the eery sound made by the sea among the basalt pillars.

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A. D. MILLS. "Fingal's Cave." A Dictionary of British Place-Names. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 31 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

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