Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its natural acoustics. The National Trust for Scotland owns the cave as part of a national nature reserve. It became known as Fingal's Cave after the eponymous hero of an epic poem by 18th-century Scots poet-historian James Macpherson.
Entrance to Fingal's Cave, 1900
View from the depths of the cave with the island of Iona visible in the background, 2008
Basalt columns inside Fingal's Cave, 2022
Engraving of Fingal's Cave by James Fittler in Scotia Depicta, 1804.
Staffa is an island of the Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. The Vikings gave it this name as its columnar basalt reminded them of their houses, which were built from vertically placed tree-logs.
Sea cliffs
Am Buchaille
Engraving based on sketches made of Fingal's Cave by John Cleveley Jnr. published in 1772
Engraving of Fingal's Cave by James Fittler in Scotia Depicta, 1804