Fingal

Fingal

See also: fingal

English

Etymology 1

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

Proper noun

Fingal

1. A male given name, best known in Scotland.
   • 1765 James Macpherson, The Poems of Ossian, Tauchnitz 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

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

Proper noun

Fingal

1. A county in Ireland north of Dublin.

Translations

county in Ireland

Irish: Fine Gall f