Pobull Fhinn, North Uist

Name: Pobull Fhinn
Address: North Uist, United Kingdom

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Top attraction, Archaeological site

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Pobull Fhinn is a stone circle on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The name is Gaelic. The first word has been variously spelt as pobull, poball, pobul or as plural pobuill. The phrase can be translated as "Fionn's people", "the white/fair people", or "Finn's tent". The plural form Pobuill Fhinn can be translated as "Fionn's peoples" and is unlikely to be correct. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 57°33'52"N, 7°16'56"W

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Pobull Fhinn – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Teampull na Trionaid, Barpa Langass, Carinish, Lochmaddy.

3.4 miSW
Church
Teampull na Trionaid, North Uist
86 min walk • Teampull na Trionaid is a ruined 13th-century Augustinian nunnery at Carinish, on North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
0.5 miNW
Archaeological site
Barpa Langass, North Uist
14 min walk • Barpa Langass, is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures about 72 feet in diameter by 18 feet in height, and is around 5,000 years old.
3.1 miS
Archaeological site
Carinish, North Uist
80 min walk • Carinish, is a hamlet on North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It is in the south of the island, about two miles from the causeway to Benbecula. The hamlet is known for the Carinish Stone Circle and the Trinity Temple. Carinish is within the parish of North Uist and is situated on the A865.
5.1 miNE
Harbor
Lochmaddy, North Uist
130 min walk • Lochmaddy is the administrative centre of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. Na Madaidhean are rocks in the bay after which the loch, and subsequently the village, are named. Lochmaddy is within the parish of North Uist.
2.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Lake
Loch Sgadabhagh, North Uist
63 min walk • Loch Sgadabhagh or Loch Scadavay is a body of water on the island of North Uist, Scotland. The name may be of Old Norse derivation meaning "lake of tax bay" although if so, the reason is obscure.
5 miNE
Archaeological site
Na Fir Bhrèige, North Uist
128 min walk • Na Fir Bhrèige is a set of three standing stones on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. They lie on the northwestern slope of Blashaval. The stones are set in a line that runs WNW to ESE, nearly in alignment with the peaks of Blashaval and Maari. They protrude 0.7m...
4.5 miS
Island
Fraoch-Eilean
115 min walk • Fraoch-eilean is a small island with an uncertain population north of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is about 55 hectares in extent and the highest point is 11 metres. Its name derives from the Gaelic for "heather island".
6.2 miNE
Island
Ceallasaigh Beag
160 min walk • Ceallasaigh Beag is a low-lying island in Loch Maddy off North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. This an area of shallow lagoons filled and drained by the tides each day.
5.5 miS
Island
Grimsay
139 min walk • Grimsay is a tidal island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
3.9 miSW
Island
Baleshare
100 min walk • Baleshare is a flat tidal island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Baleshare lies to the south-west of North Uist. Its economics and community were boosted by the building of a causeway in 1962. The 350-metre causeway was built by William Tawse Ltd.
5.1 miW
Island
Kirkibost
131 min walk • Kirkibost is a low-lying island west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.