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www.donegal.ie. Coontie Dunnygal[4][5] is an Ulster Scots spelling. County Donegal (/ ˌdʌniˈɡɔːl, ˌdɒn -/ DUN-ee-GAWL, DON-; Irish: Contae Dhún na nGall) [6] is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county.
Raphoe (/ r ə ˈ f oʊ / rə-FOH; Irish: Ráth Bhoth) is a small town in County Donegal in the north-west of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. It is the main town in the fertile district of East Donegal known as the Laggan, as well as giving its name to the Barony of Raphoe, which was later divided into the baronies of Raphoe North and Raphoe South, as well as to the Roman Catholic ...
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 2,787 townlands in County Donegal, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county.
The number of counties varied depending on the time period, however thirty-two is the traditionally accepted and used number. Upon the partition of Ireland in 1921, six of the traditional counties became part of Northern Ireland. In Northern Ireland, counties ceased to be used for local government in 1973; districts are instead used.
Geography of Ireland. Ireland is an island in Northern Europe in the north Atlantic Ocean. The island, of up to around 480 km (300 mi) north-south, and 275 km (171 mi) east-west, lies near the western edge of the European continental shelf, part of the Eurasian Plate. Its main geographical features include low central plains surrounded by ...
Cross erected near Banba's Crown, Ireland's northernmost point. This is a list of the extreme points of Ireland – the points that are furthest north, south, east or west in Ireland. It includes the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Often the term "Malin to Mizen" is used when encompassing the entire island from north to south.
In Ireland, the highest category of road is a motorway (mótarbhealach, plural: mótarbhealaí), indicated by the prefix M followed by a one- or two-digit number (the number of the national route of which each motorway forms a part). The motorway network consists entirely of motorway-grade dual carriageways and is largely focused upon Dublin.
Donegal Bay (Irish: Bá Dhún na nGall) is an inlet (or bay) in the northwest of Ireland. Three counties – Donegal to the north and west, Leitrim and Sligo to the south – have shorelines on the bay, which is bounded on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. The town of Donegal and the River Eske lie at the head of the bay.