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 | | As a territorial term, Gall Gháidhil settled down to mean Galloway, the Hebrides as a whole being known as Innse Gall, 'Isles of the Foreigners.' In 1034 Suibne, son of Cinaeth, king of the Gall Gháidhil, died. |
 | | Another Galloway 'breed' mentioned by Dr. Trotter is the Fingauls, described as tall, well made, fair-haired, and blue-eyed, with 'wunnerfu feet for size.' They were commonest in Saterness, Co'en, Borgue, Whithern, and Kirkmaiden, and they were reckoned to be descendants of the Norsemen. |
 | | The Fingauls of Galloway may have been immigrants from this quarter, and if so their advent may have been as late as 1014, when the Danes and Norsemen were broken at Clontarff, near Dublin. |
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