Fingal (disambiguation) explained

Fingal is a county in Ireland, formerly the northern part of the historical county of Dublin. Fingal may also refer to:

Arts

• Fingal (hero), the eponymous hero of a poem in the Ossian cycle by James Macpherson
• Fingal (music group), Irish traditional music group

Places

Australia

• Fingal, Tasmania, Australian town
• Fingal, Victoria, Australian town
• Fingal Head, New South Wales, Australian village, often referred to as Fingal

Elsewhere

• Fingal, North Dakota, U.S. town
• Fingal, Ontario, community in Canada near a Royal Canadian Air Force station

Sport

• Fingal county hurling team
• Sporting Fingal F.C., association football club in the Football League of Ireland

Other uses

• Fingal mac Gofraid, late 11th century King of the Isles
• MV Fingal, former Northern Lighthouse Board ship converted into a boutique hotel, berthed in Edinburgh, Scotland
• SS Fingal, Norwegian merchant ship sunk off Australia in World War II

See also

• Fingal Bay, New South Wales, near Port Stephens in Australia
• Fingal's Cave, sea-cave on Staffa in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland
• Finghall, village in North Yorkshire, England
• Irish place names in other countries