Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Fingal's Oak

Fingal's Oak, a famous old tree in Ardchattan parish, Argyllshire, near Barcaldine House. It girthed 29 feet (only half its original size) in 1835, and continued so to decay and crumble, that in 1844 it measured but 23 feet in girth.


(F.H. Groome, Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland (1882-4); © 2004 Gazetteer for Scotland)

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "a famous old tree"   (ADL Feature Type: "woods")
Administrative units: Ardchattan Parish       Argyll County

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