Fingal

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Etymology 1

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From Scottish Gaelic Fionnghall, from fionn (fair) + gall (stranger). Used by Macpherson as a rendering of the Irish Fionn mac Cumhail.

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Fingal

  1. A male given name from Scottish Gaelic, best known in Scotland.
    • 1765, James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz, published 1847, page 204:
      Fingal! thou king of heroes! Ossian, next to him in war! ye have fought in your youth; your names are renowned in song.

Etymology 2

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From Irish Fine Gall (literally race of the Norsemen).

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Fingal

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