County Donegal Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
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About County Donegal
Donegal is a large, thinly populated county in the north of the Republic of Ireland, further north than any part of Northern Ireland, and connected to the rest of the Republic by a strip only 9 km wide. Glaciers gave it a fractal coastline, gouging out large fjords such as Lough Foyle and Lough Swilly, and innumerable smaller inlets, peninsulas and islands. Except for its eastern edge, it's mountainous with poor soil and a cool wet climate. However ancient travel (even locally, to market) was better by sea than across the hills and bogs, so early Christian leaders established monasteries, and people fished. Vikings sailed up the fjords and settled (henceDún na nGall, "Fort of the Foreigners", similar to "Galway") but were ousted in the 11th century, and the area came under Gaelic rule from
County Donegal Travel Guide Sections
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