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Donegal is in South Donegal and is located at the mouth of the River Eske and Donegal Bay, which is overshadowed by the Blue Stack Mountains ("the Croaghs"). The Drumenny Burn, which flows along the eastern edge of Donegal Town, flows into the River Eske on the north-eastern edge of the town, between the Community Hospital and The Northern Garage.
County Donegal (/ ˌ d ʌ n i ˈ ɡ ɔː l, ˌ d ɒ n-/ 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.
Kilclooney More belongs to the low-lying land in the west of County Donegal that is prominent for its concentration of court and portal tombs.In the Neolithic period this land was fertile due to a warmer and drier climate, supporting farming communities who crafted ceramics and built tombs which are still described as ‘magnificent’.
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Boylagh (Irish: Baollaigh [l 1]) is a historic barony in County Donegal in Ireland. [1] Patrick Weston Joyce said the name Boylagh comes from the territory of the O'Boyles. [2] It was created along with Banagh when the former barony of Boylagh and Banagh was split in 1791 by an Act of the Parliament of Ireland.
Rosguill (Irish language and official name: Ros Goill) [1] is a peninsula situated in the north-north-west of County Donegal on the north coast of Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Lying between the peninsulae of Fanad to the east and Horn Head to the west, Rosguill is a dichotomy of heathland and ocean.
The wood features one of north-west Ireland's best and largest semi-natural deciduous woodlands. It contains old sessile oak woods, with holly and hazel trees. Other habitats include scrub, wet grassland, wet woodland, and wet heath. It is also a Special Area of Conservation under the EU Habitats Directive, listed in Annex I of the Directive ...
Geological maps of County Donegal show rock alignments running south-west to north east across the Fanad peninsula. The underlying rock in the peninsula is mostly of Dalradian meta-sedimentary rocks, which have been exposed by weathering and erosion over the millennia There are areas of Granodiorite igneous rocks across the northern end of the peninsula from Ballywhoriskey to Fanad Head, but ...