Donegal takes its name from Dún na nGall, ‘fort of the foreigners’, though to its own people it has always been Tír Chonaill — the land of Conall, ruled for centuries by the O’Donnell clan.
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Donegal takes its name from Dún na nGall, ‘fort of the foreigners’, though to its own people it has always been Tír Chonaill — the land of Conall, ruled for centuries by the O’Donnell clan.
This is the county of the Flight of the Earls, when Red Hugh O’Donnell and Hugh O’Neill sailed from Rathmullan in 1607, closing the door on old Gaelic Ireland — and of Slieve League, among the highest sea cliffs in Europe.
