Fingal
Fingal is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Eastern and Midland Region. It is one of three successor counties to County Dublin, which was disestablished for administrative purposes in 1994.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: local government county in Ireland with 296,000 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “County Fingal”, “County of Fingal”, and “Fingal county”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Swords Castle and Swords Round Tower.
Swords Castle
Castle
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Swords Castle is an early medieval castle located in Swords, County Dublin. Originally built for the Archbishops of Dublin in the early 13th century near the Ward River, some of the castle estate had fallen into disrepair by the 14th and 15th centuries.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Swords and Malahide.
Swords
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Swords is a town 12 km north of Dublin, with a population in 2022 of 41,000. It's historically in County Dublin, which in 1994 was divided, with Swords becoming the county town of Fingal. Dublin Airport is within the town limits and much of Swords is industrial or commuterland for the city, but with an ancient castle and Round Tower.
Malahide
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Malahide is a seaside town 18 km northeast of Dublin, with a population in 2022 of 18,608. Historically it's part of County Dublin, which was divided so nowadays Malahide is governed by County Fingal.
Rowlestown
Village
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Rolestown, is a small village six miles north-west of Swords along the R125 in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland. It lies about halfway between Swords and Ashbourne, County Meath. Rowlestown is situated 6 km northwest of Fingal.
Fingal
- Category: county of Ireland
- Location: Leinster, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Western Frisian—“Fingal” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Fingal”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة فينغال”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Fine Gall”
- Azerbaijani: “Finqal”
- Balinese: “Fingal”
- Basque: “Fingaleko konderria”
- Belarusian: “графтсва Фінгал”
- Belarusian: “Фінгал”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি ফিংগল”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Fingal”
- Catalan: “Fingal”
- Cebuano: “Fingal County”
- Chinese: “芬戈尔郡”
- Chinese: “芬戈郡”
- Czech: “Fingal”
- Danish: “County Fingal”
- Dutch: “Fingal”
- Esperanto: “Fingal (Irlando)”
- Esperanto: “Fingal”
- Finnish: “Fingal”
- Finnish: “Fingalin kreivikunta”
- French: “Comté de Fingal”
- French: “Fingal”
- Galician: “condado de Fingal”
- Georgian: “ფინგალის საგრაფო”
- German: “County Fingal”
- German: “Fingal”
- Greek: “Φίνγκαλ”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી ફિંગલ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז פינגל”
- Hindi: “काउंटी फ़िंगल”
- Indonesian: “County Fingal”
- Irish: “Fine Gall”
- Italian: “Contea di Fingal”
- Italian: “Fingal”
- Japanese: “フィンガル”
- Japanese: “フィンガル州”
- Japanese: “フィンガル市”
- Japanese: “フィンガル県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಫಿಂಗಲ್”
- Korean: “핑갈 주”
- Korean: “핑걸주”
- Latvian: “Fingala”
- Latvian: “Fingalas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Fingalas”
- Macedonian: “Фингал”
- Malay: “County Fingal”
- Manx: “Fine Goal”
- Marathi: “काउंटी फिंगल”
- Newari: “फिङ्गल”
- Northern Frisian: “Fingal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fingal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Fingal”
- Persian: “فینگل”
- Polish: “Fingal”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Fingal”
- Russian: “Фингал”
- Scots: “Fingal”
- Serbian: “Фингал”
- Sinhala: “ෆින්ගල් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Fingal”
- Slovenian: “Fingal”
- Spanish: “Fingal”
- Swedish: “Fingal”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி பின்கள்”
- Telugu: “కౌంటీ ఫింగల్”
- Thai: “ฟินกัล”
- Turkish: “Fingal”
- Ukrainian: “Фінгал”
- Urdu: “فینگال”
- Venetian: “Fingal”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Fingal”
- Welsh: “Swydd Fingal”
- Western Frisian: “Fingal”
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