Brewer's: Fingal's Cave

The basaltic cavern of Staffa. So called from Fion na Gael (Fingal), the great Gaelic hero, whose achievements have been made familiar by the Fingal of Macpherson.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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