Towns and Villages
Fingal varies enormously in character from densely-populated suburban areas of the contiguous Dublin metropolitan to remote rural villages and almost-unpopulated agricultural townlands.
- Balbriggan
- Baldoyle
- Ballyboughal
- Bayside
- Blanchardstown
- Castleknock
- Clonee
- Clonsilla
- Corduff
- Donabate
- Garristown
- Springhill
- Hollystown
- Howth
- Lusk
- Malahide
- Mulhuddart
- Naul
- Oldtown
- Ongar
- Portmarnock
- Portrane
- Rush
- Rolestown
- Skerries
- Swords
- Sutton
- Tyrrelstown
Fingal County Council is also responsible for the northern-most parts of Ballymun, Santry and Finglas. The part of Kilbarrack now known as Bayside, along with Sutton and Howth (the peninsula was historically distinct from the plains of Fingal), were transferred from the city of Dublin in a somewhat controversial move. Clonee, a former rural area of Meath now with a heavily built-up hinterland, crosses the boundary between the old County of Dublin and County Meath, while Ongar is an adjacent newly-created residential development in western Clonsilla seeking to develop a "village" amenity.
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