Gypsies' Cave

This name applies to a large Cave about two and a fourth miles from Cromarty on the Shore of the Moray Firth. It is capable of sheltering at least two hundred men and is resorted to very frequently for shelter by large bodies of Gipsies or Tinkers. On the property of Colonel Ross.

Notes: Although this area is named after MacFarquhar, very little is known of the man other than he was a smuggler, the rest of the stories were thought to have been lost over the years. The area was also thought to of been a sometime haunt for gypsies as was reported to the Inverness Courier in 1829 by a famous local geologist by the name of Hugh Miller. (trover.com)

" I was a very few days ago at MacFarquhar's Bed and the gypsies' cave, the scene of my ' Boatman's Tale.' (Hugh Miller)

Links and Resources:

Photo 1 there appear to be three caves here - not clear which one is Gypsie's.
www.trover.com/d/1mAFL-macfarquhar%E2%80%99s-bed-highland-scotland.
www.thefriendsofhughmiller.org.uk/index.asp?pageid=517590.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpSo6g-u1M.
Miller, Hugh, 1829, Inverness Courier (A Noble Smuggler And Other Stories, ed Martin Gostwick).
Miller, Hugh 1835 Scenes and Legends of the North of Scotland or The Traditional History of Cromarty.
OS 10k background mapping.
Streetmap.
Abbot, Alex Reece, 2017, 'MacFarquhar's Bed'. Strolling among the Cairngorms, the smuggler MacFarquhar observes the way 'the bark of the beech trees trails silver, lichen beards. Their dark, wind-sculpted branches reach out for the sky, wild as the hair of Macbeth's crones.'
Scotland's Places.

This entry was last updated: 2022-03-16 18:11:18

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NGR:	NH 80050 65379
WGS84:	57.66227, -4.01218
Length:	Not recorded
Vert. Range:	Not recorded
Altitude:	Not recorded
Geology:	Moine Supergroup - metamorphic; psammite & pelite
Tags:	Cave, SeaCave
Registry:	main

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