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15 unusual facts about County Donegal


Castle Fin, Illinois

Wilson named Castle Fin after his hometown of Castle Finn in County Donegal, Ireland.

Codium

Codium bursa, (Linnaeus) C.Agardh; has been found in Mulroy Bay in County Donegal in 1977 (specimen in the Ulster Museum) and 1988.

Codium adhaerens has been recorded from a few sites on the west coast and from Tory Island on the north coast in County Donegal.

Damien Faulkner

Damien Faulkner (born 15 February 1977) is an Irish race car driver from Moville County Donegal.

Darerca of Ireland

Darerca's second husband, Chonas the Briton, founded the church of Both-chonais, now Binnion, Parish of Clonmany, in the barony of Inishowen, County Donegal.

Donegal Celtic F.C.

They registered their chosen name with the Irish Football League, taking the name from the area in which they were based, Lenadoon, Gweedore, Glenveagh are all local areas named after towns in County Donegal, with the Celtic part being taken on due to the massive local following for Scotland's Celtic, and formerly Belfast Celtic.

Dunduff Castle

These lands were in County Donegal known as Coolaghy in the Barony of Raphoe, known as Fort Dunduff and later as the Manor of Mount-Stewart.

Executions during the Irish Civil War

On 14 March at Drumboe Castle in County Donegal, in the north west, four anti-Treaty IRA fighters, Charles Daly (26), Sean Larkin (26), Daniel Enwright (23), and Timothy O' Sullivan (23), who had been captured and held in the castle since January, were summarily shot in retaliation for the death of a National Army soldier in an ambush.

Inishowen

Then as the road heads South along Lough Foyle it passes through Moville town, Quigley's Point and the Village of Muff where the road turns right and heads back to Bridgend where the journey started.

MV Rhum

Her new Irish owner operates Rhum and Coll between Burtonport and Arranmore in County Donegal.

Narin

Narin, County Donegal, a village on the west coast of County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland

Rosabelle Osborne

The second daughter of Dr. J. A. Osborne of Milford, County Donegal, Rosabelle Osborne received her training at the Manchester Children's Hospital, Pendlebury, and the Royal Infirmary, Bristol.

Samuel Haliday

He was son of the Rev. Samuel Haliday (or Hollyday) (1637–1724), who was ordained presbyterian minister of Convoy, County Donegal, in 1664; then moved to Omagh in 1677; left for Scotland in 1689, where he was successively minister of Dunscore, Drysdale, and New North Church, Edinburgh; and returning to Ireland in 1692, became minister of Ardstraw, where he continued till his death.

Sir Edmund Francis Hayes, 5th Baronet

Sir Edmund Francis Hayes, 5th Baronet (1850 - 1912) of Drumboe Castle, County Donegal was a Baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland.

Traffic Blues

The series was filmed over six months, putting the Dublin Metropolitan division based in Dublin Castle, the Louth division taking in stations in Drogheda and Dundalk and the Donegal division focusing on Burnfoot and Letterkenny areas in the centre of attention.


Áed Rúad, Díthorba and Cimbáeth

Áed died at the end of his third stint, by drowning in a waterfall which was named Eas Ruaid, "the red's waterfall" (Assaroe Falls, Ballyshannon, County Donegal), after him.

Alexander McNair

His grandfather, David McNair, Sr., immigrated to Pennsylvania from Donaghmore, County Donegal, Ireland around 1733 and had Scottish ancestors from Loch Lomond.

Arthur Warren Darley

Arthur was also a church organist who spent some time as a Church of Ireland organist near Bruckless, County Donegal, where he spent some time with the great Donegal fiddler, John Doherty.

Bogwoman

Bogwoman is a 1997 film that follows the story of Maureen, a woman born in the Boglands of County Donegal who moves across the border to the Bogside to marry a Derry (Northern Ireland) man.

Daniel Quigley

He is coached by the former three time world kickboxing champion Paddy Toland at PT's Kickboxing Gym in Carrigans, County Donegal and in Derry City.

Dudi Appleton

In 1999 they made The Most Fertile Man in Ireland (set in County Donegal in west Ulster), for which he would later win the HBO Comedy award in Colorado for best director, awarded to Appleton by Billy Crystal.

Fannett Township, Franklin County, Pennsylvania

The township derives its name as an older variant spelling of Fanad, County Donegal from early Irish settlement in the area.

George Paulet

Tyrone and Tyrconnell fled from Ireland early in September 1607 (the Flight of the Earls); O'Cahan, who ruled the greater part of what is now County Londonderry, and of O'Doherty, the chief of Inishowen in County Donegal, came under some suspicion.

Gustavus Conyngham

Gustavus Conyngham (about 1744 – 27 November 1819) was born in County Donegal, Ireland, and was a merchant sea captain, officer in the Continental Navy and a privateer.

Henry Plumer McIlhenny

During his lifetime his collections of French masterpieces, 18th and 19th century silver, furniture and other decorative arts were housed in both his Rittenhouse Square townhouse and at Glenveagh Castle, his country house in County Donegal, part of the Province of Ulster in Ireland.

Irish National Invincibles

Carey was shot dead on board the Melrose Castle off Cape Town, South Africa, on 29 July 1883, by Donegal man Patrick O Donnell, for giving evidence against his former comrades.

July 2010 R238 traffic collision

Eight people were killed on the night of 11 July 2010 when a black Volkswagen Passat collided with a red Toyota Corolla on the R238 Buncrana to Clonmany road on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland.

Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill

Her father's family were native Irish-speakers from Ranafast, County Donegal and Maighread was therefore brought up speaking the language, along with her sister Tríona and brothers Éamonn, Mícheál and Conall.

Moville

Moville (Magh Bhile or Bun an Phobail in Irish, having the same etymology as Movilla Abbey) is a town and coastal resort on the Inishowen Peninsula of County Donegal, Ireland, close to the northern tip of the island of Ireland.

Noel Doherty

The explosives would be used in 1969 as part of a series of bombings in which members of the UPV caused small explosions at a Castlereagh electricity station, Silent Valley reservoir and a further electricity station in County Donegal.

Ó Breisleáin

The Ó Breisleáin were natives of Fanad, County Donegal, and a branch of the family later became brehons to the Maguire of County Fermanagh

Ó Catháin

The Uí Catháin of Cenél nEógain originated in the Laggan area of County Donegal, and from there moved eastwards in the twelfth century, ousting the Uí Conchobair from Keenaght and retaining their lordship of Keenaght and Coleraine until the seventeenth century.

Sir Samuel Hercules Hayes, 4th Baronet

He was educated at Harrow, and succeeded his father Sir Edmund Samuel Hayes, 3rd Baronet as baronet in 1860 and inherited the family estate of Drumboe Castle in County Donegal.

Trady railway station

Trady railway station served an area between Tooban and Farland Point in County Donegal, Ireland.