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Fingal County Councils’ Community Development Office is administering a Fingal Community Response to COVID-19 Funding scheme to support voluntary and community groups to provide a local community response to COVID-19 in Fingal. Priority will be given to initiatives that strive to contain and limit the reach of the virus, safeguard volunteers and support vulnerable members in our community.

Fingal Local Enterprise Office (LEO) has been at the forefront in the implementation of urgent and actions to help address the crisis local business owner/managers are currently facing with the pandemic.

The Department of Rural and Community Development has produced a Communications information pack for for community and voluntary groups and members of the public as part of its response to COVID-19.

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A great resource for old photos of places in Fingal is www.digital.libraries.dublincity.ie 

Find out more about the architectural heritage of Fingal from the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.

Every field in Fingal, and across Ireland, has a name or had one in the past.

Aerial Photography provides us with a fascinating record of the changes to Fingal’s landscape over the years.

Ireland is home to 28 species of land mammal, over 400 species of birds, more than 4,000 plant species and over 12,000 species of insect.

Fingal has about 50 holy wells. The veneration of water had its origins in prehistory, when people threw offerings into sacred springs, rivers and lakes-a tradition we mirror when we throw coins into a fountain

There are 54 historic graveyards within Fingal which form a significant element of the county’s heritage. Many are still in use. Some such as Lusk, Swords, St Douloughs and Grallagh are associated with saints and date from the earliest periods of Christianty. Others like Cloghran, Holmpatrick and Mulhuddart are medieval parish graveyards.

Mary Ellen (Molly) Adrien was born on 25 September 1873. She is remembered as one of Fingal’s ‘Revolutionary women’. Molly joined Cumann na mBan after its establishment in April 1914 and is said to have been instrumental in forming the Lusk branch. On Easter Sunday 1916, Cumman na mBan were ordered to assemble at Black Church Phisboro, an order countermanded and were sent away to await recall. However Molly remained in the city and was chosen to bring the order to rise from Pearse to the leader of Irish Volunteers Joseph Lawless and then to Thomas Ashe Commandant of the North County Brigade.

Saturday the 16th May is National Drawing day which brings to mind the importance of illustrations, drawings and paintings of our heritage sites that have survived through the ages. In the 18th century the fashion for drawing antiquities was exemplified by Gabriel Beranger whose paintings of his Rambles thro’ the County of Dublin in 1770s beautifully recorded now long gone castles and monuments in Fingal.

Fingal has an ancient and varied maritime history from Viking raids and the medieval havens of Howth where the pague arrived, to the pirates of Lambay and the smugglers of Rush and Loughshinny. By the later fourteenth century the mouth of the Liffey had silted up and merchandise had to be landed elsewhere along the coast.

Contrary to popular belief most of Ireland’s natural forests were cleared before 1600, much of this clearance in prehistoric times. In medieval times there were scattered woods and copses throughout Fingal but forest cover reached a critical low in the 17th century. Much of present day Blanchardstown was covered in woodland known as the Great Scaldwood. There was an organised wolf cull in the Great Scaldwood in 1652.

Hundreds of sites in Fingal are both archaeological monuments and protected structures. Take Brazil house (as the archaeologist’s recorded it) or Brazeel House (according to the architects).  This was the former residence of the Bolton family, many of whom had distinguished legal careers, including Sir Richard Bolton, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, in the reign of Charles the First.

Fingal County Council’s Arts Office continues to support professional Fingal artists during the Covid Crisis through a range of initiatives

The Fingal Arts Office is dedicated to delivering our programme of work and remaining available to our stakeholders and communities

Fingal County Council have partnered with the Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board with a view to advancing music education opportunities for children and young people in the county.  The partners are eager to hear your views on performance music education for children and young people and have developed public consultation surveys that are now available online to complete and have your opinions heard

Fingal County Council’s Art Office has issued a message of support and solidarity to all the artists, arts groups, arts organisations and partners who work with the office.