10 Facts About Fingal

1.

Fingal is one of three counties into which County Dublin was divided in 1994.

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2.

The motto of the arms of Fingal reads Irish: Fluirse Talaimh is Mara meaning "Abundance of Land and Water".

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3.

Fingal is bordered by County Meath to the north, by Kildare to the west and by Dublin city to the south.

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4.

Name "Fingal" derives from the medieval territory of Fine Gall, the Viking settlement north of Dublin.

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5.

Fingal is within the part of the Eastern and Midland Regional Assembly, established in 2015, one of three such regional assemblies in the state.

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6.

Fingal was therefore implicitly included in the grant of "Meath" either as part of Meath proper or under the additional element of that grant "and for increase to the gift, all fees which he has or shall acquire about Dublin".

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7.

In 1208 the Lordship of Fingal was granted to Walter de Lacy by King John of England.

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8.

The Lordship of Fingal was, therefore, a paramount superiority over several sub-infeudated smaller baronies, and thus eventually accrued vicecomital attributes.

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9.

Geographically, Fingal became a core area of the Pale, and that part of Ireland was most intensively settled by the Normans and in due course the English.

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10.

Fingal is home to Morton Stadium, Ireland's national athletics stadium and 2003 Special Olympics venue.

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