Burtonport

Ailt an Chorráin Burtonport
Town
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 54°58′56″N 8°26′04″W / 54.982293°N 8.434324°W / 54.982293; -8.434324Coordinates: 54°58′56″N 8°26′04″W / 54.982293°N 8.434324°W / 54.982293; -8.434324
Country	Ireland
Province	Ulster
County	County Donegal
Government
• Dáil Éireann	Donegal South–West
Population (2011)
• Total	323
Irish Grid Reference	B717154
As this is a Gaeltacht village, the Irish Ailt an Chorráin is the only official name.

Ailt an Chorráin or Ailt a' Chorráin (English name: Burtonport)^[1] is a Gaeltacht fishing village about 7 km northwest of Dungloe in The Rosses area of County Donegal, Republic of Ireland

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.

History

A plaque there commemorates the brief landing on the nearby island of Inishmacadurn (or Rutland Island) of a French military force led by James Napper Tandy in a failed attempt to assist rebels during the 1798 rebellion on 16 September 1798.

Transport

The ferry leaving Burtonport for Arranmore

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.

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]

People

• Joseph Sweeney, Irish politician and former MP
• Packie Bonner is from the area around Burtonport.
• Pat the Cope Gallagher
• Peadar O'Donnell novelist, leftist, and prominent IRA activist from the 1920-30s era was born in Burtonport.

See also

• List of populated places in Ireland
• Ulster Irish

References

1. ↑ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004
2. ↑ "Burtonport station". Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2007-09-13. 

• That Old Sinner – Letterkenny and Burtonport Railway by Frank Sweeney Ulster Herald

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