Burtonport
Ailt an Chorráin Burtonport | |
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Town | |
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Coordinates: 54°58′56″N 8°26′04″W / 54.982293°N 8.434324°WCoordinates: 54°58′56″N 8°26′04″W / 54.982293°N 8.434324°W | |
Country | Ireland |
Province | Ulster |
County | County Donegal |
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• 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, 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
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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
References
- ↑ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004
- ↑ "Burtonport station" (PDF). Railscot - Irish Railways. Retrieved 2007-09-13.
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