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Fingall

Fingall is the archaic form of Fingal.

Meaning of Fingal

Proper noun (1)

Fingal

  1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.
    • Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him in war! ye have fought in your youth; your names are renowned in song.1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 204
  2. A locality in the Shire of Mornington Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.
  3. A locality in Break O'Day Council, north eastern Tasmania, Australia.

Proper noun (2)

Fingal

  1. A county of Ireland north of Dublin, formed in 1994 from parts of County Dublin.

Questions about Fingall

What is Fingall the archaic form of?
Fingall is the archaic form of Fingal.

Words near Fingall in the dictionary

  1. Fingal
  2. Fingal Bay
  3. Fingal Head
  4. Fingal's Cave
  5. Fingalian
  6. Fingall
  7. Fingallian
  8. fingan
  9. fingans
  10. fingent
  11. finger

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Fingall (page history and authors); Fingal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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