Fingallian or the
Fingal dialect is an
extinct variety of English formerly spoken in
Fingal, Ireland. It is thought to have been an offshoot of
Middle English, which was brought to Ireland during the
Norman invasion, and was extinct by the mid-19th century. Although little is known of Fingallian, it is thought to have been similar to the
Forth and Bargy dialect of
County Wexford. The surviving literature of Fingallian consists of two satirical or humorous poems, the short "Fingallian Dance" and the much longer
Purgatorium Hibernicum. Both poems are anonymous and are thought to be humorous parodies of Fingallian by non-native speakers, so their value from a linguistic point of view may be limited.