Burtonport
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| Burtonport Ailt an Chorráin |
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| Irish grid reference B717154 |
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| Province: | Ulster | |
| County: | County Donegal | |
| Dáil Éireann: | Donegal South West | |
| Population (2002) | 1,120 | |
Burtonport (official name: Ailt an Chorráin)[1] is a fishing village situated on the northwest coast of Ireland, some 7 km northwest of Dungloe in County Donegal and it forms part of the official Gaeltacht region.
The main employers in the village are the Burtonport Fishermen's Co-op and the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) ice plant. In recent years these establishments have been in decline due to the abandonment of fishing as a career and way of life by locals, due to depleted fish stocks and very restrictive fishing laws.
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[edit] History
A plaque there commemorates the brief landing on the nearby island of Rutland (Inishmacadurn in Irish) of a French military force led by James Napper Tandy in a failed attempt to assist rebels during the 1798 rebellion on September 16, 1798.
[edit] Transport
- Burtonport had a railway service from Letterkenny between 1903 and 1940 provided by the Letterkenny & Burtonport Extension Railway (L&BER), a company jointly owned by the State and the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway (L&LSR). Burtonport railway station opened on 9 March 1903, but finally closed on 3 June 1940.[2]
- As the mainland port for both the Arranmore car ferry service and the Arranmore fast ferry passenger service, Burtonport receives a lot of passing tourist traffic.
[edit] People
- Packie Bonner is from the area around Burtonport.
- Peadar O'Donnell novelist, leftist, and prominent IRA activist from the 1920-30s era was born in Burtonport.
- Council member, and Fianna Fáil politician, David Alcorn is from the Lackenagh area of Burtonport.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004
- ^ Burtonport station. Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved on 2007-09-13.
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