Fingal, Tasmania

History

Fingal was gazetted as a locality in 1965.

The Fingal area was surveyed in 1824 by Roderic O'Connor and John Helder Wedge, and is believed to have been named after Fingal's Cave in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland rather than Fingal in Ireland. The town of Fingal came into existence in 1827 as a convict station, and experienced a boom when Van Diemen's Land's first payable gold was discovered in nearby Mangana.

Fingal Post Office opened on 1 June 1832.

Geography

Almost all the boundaries are survey lines. The South Esk River flows through from north to south-west.

Climate

|Jan record high C = 41.3 |Feb record high C = 36.4 |Mar record high C = 35.7 |Apr record high C = 29.4 |May record high C = 25.3 |Jun record high C = 20.7 |Jul record high C = 19.2 |Aug record high C = 22.2 |Sep record high C = 29.0 |Oct record high C = 31.6 |Nov record high C = 35.4 |Dec record high C = 39.3 |year record high C = 41.3 |Jan record low C = 0.1 |Feb record low C = −0.2 |Mar record low C = −1.9 |Apr record low C = −4.8 |May record low C = −8.1 |Jun record low C = −9.0 |Jul record low C = −8.1 |Aug record low C = −7.4 |Sep record low C = −6.2 |Oct record low C = −4.6 |Nov record low C = −2.1 |Dec record low C = −1.5 |year record low C = −9.0

Road infrastructure

Route A4 (Esk Main Road) runs through from south-west to north-east.

References

References

1. . (2022-07-26). ["2021 Census Quick Stats Fingal (Tas.)"](https://abs.gov.au/census/find-census-data/quickstats/2021/SAL60200). *Australian Bureau of Statistics*.
2. . (23 October 2017). ["2016 Census Quick Stats Fingal (Tas.)"](https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC60199?opendocument). *Australian Bureau of Statistics*.
3. . ["Placenames Tasmania – Fingal"](https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/#p1). *Placenames Tasmania*.
4. ''A letter found among the correspondence of the Lands and Survey Department, dated 30 November 1827, written by Roderic O'Connor (one of the Commissioners with Frankland, appointed to divide the colony into Counties, Hundreds and Parishes, and set aside reserves for townships etc) reads as follows: "The township which we have selected between Talbot's and Grant's is an admirable one as it embraces all the points from the South Esk and Break of Day Rivers ... we abandon the one on marked on the chart at the head of Mr Talbot's grant reserving only as much as will suffice for the Parish. We have called the Township 'Fingal' in honour of Mr Talbot whose family rank high in Ireland" (1/LSD 71/196) Letter from E R Pretyman 19/07/1961 (F/353).'' https://www.placenames.tas.gov.au/
5. [http://www.smh.com.au/news/tasmania/fingal/2005/02/17/1108500205758.html Fingal: Quiet and attractive rural town], ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', February 8, 2004.
6. Premier Postal History. "Post Office List". Premier Postal Auctions.
7. "Fingal, Tasmania".
8. http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/averages/tables/cw_092012_All.shtml {{Bare URL inline. (August 2022)
9. . (May 2017). ["Tasmanian Road Route Codes"](https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/Documents/Route%20Descriptions%20V3.6.pdf). *Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water & Environment*.