Under heavy grey cloud the swell bursts white into the tall arched mouth of Fingal's Cave in the basalt-columned cliffs of Staffa, puffins on the grassy ledges.

Alba · Scotland

An Uamh Bhinn

Fingal's Cave, Staffa · Inner Hebrides, Scotland

The far end of the causeway.

Open it on the full site There it is marked on the map of the five fifths, where the road of a tale can be traced.

The same basalt columns rise out of the sea on Staffa. When Joseph Banks visited in 1772 he recorded it as the cave of Fhinn, Fionn’s cave, which became “Fingal’s Cave”. The Gaelic name usually given, An Uamh Bhinn, “the melodious cave”, was written down later. By 1832 people in Antrim were saying the causeway came ashore here.

In the tales

Fionn and the Giant’s Causeway The strongest giant in Ireland is coming for Fionn. Fionn’s wife has a plan, a cradle and twenty-one iron griddles.

Sources

Each tale above lists the sources it is retold from. Every source the site draws on is listed on the full site.