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Fingal - This article refers to the administrative county of Fingal. For other uses of the name, see Fingal (disambiguation).
Fingal (Fine Gall in Irish, meaning "land of foreigners", i.e. Norsemen) is an administrative county of the Republic of Ireland, part of the former historic county of Dublin. The county was established on 1 January, 1994 with the division of County Dublin into three new administrative counties, and covers the coastal area north of City of Dublin along the Irish Sea and south of the River Delvin to the River Liffey, and is is bordered by the counties of Meath, Kildare and South Dublin. Fingal, which had been a historical region since the time of the Vikings, achieved county status through the Local Government (Dublin) Act, 1993 and more formally in the Local Government Act, 2001. Fingal County Council, the administrative authority, inherited the former Dublin County Council premises on O'Connell Street, as no suitable building was available within the county at the time. However, this gave it the unusual status of having its county council offices significantly outside the county, O'Connell Street being in the Dublin City Council area. In 2001, the council moved its main offices to a new building in Swords. Fingal is the fifth largest local authority area in Ireland by population. The main urban center in Fingal is Swords with other important centres at Balbriggan, Blanchardstown, Castleknock, Howth, Malahide and Mulhuddart. The Institute of Technology, Blanchardstown and Dublin International Airport are located within the county. - External link: Fingal Web Portal
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