Fingal (from the Irish: Fine Gall meaning "foreign tribe") is a county in Ireland, one of the three counties formed from County Dublin in 1994. With its county seat located in Swords, it has a population of a nearly quarter of a million.
The Vikings referred to the area as Dyflinarskiri, the hinterland of Dublin. . The original name, however, derived from the old Gaelic Fionn Gall, meaning fair strangers, denoting the Norse, whereas south county ...
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Fingal (from the Irish: Fine Gall meaning "foreign tribe") is a county in Ireland, one of the three counties formed from County Dublin in 1994. With its county seat located in Swords, it has a population of a nearly quarter of a million.
The Vikings referred to the area as Dyflinarskiri, the hinterland of Dublin. . The original name, however, derived from the old Gaelic Fionn Gall, meaning fair strangers, denoting the Norse, whereas south county Dublin was called Dubh Gall, meaning dark or black strangers, denoting the occupying Danes . Early Anglo-Norman versions of the name include the similar Fiehengall, Fynnegal, Fyngal, and Finegal, which led to the mis-identification with Fine Gall.
Fingalian is an extinct language, a hybrid of Old and Middle English and Old Norse, with Gaelic influences, which was spoken by the people of Fingal until the mid-1800s.
The first administrative identity going by a variant of the original name was the grant of the Lordship of Fingal, a Prescriptive...
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