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Home and Dry

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Off to Donegal for 3 days next week and wondering if anyone had any tips/advice for me and my good lady wife, with places to visit or things to see.
Thanks in advance.
 

If you like hiking then Slieve League at the SW tip is a fine mountain - some of the highest sea cliffs in Europe. Errigal is also a nice climb - quite an easy one from the road. There's a village near Slieve League called Glencolmcille with an alehouse that does good folk music sessions.

Bundoran in the SE of the county if you find Blackpool a bit posh and refined, and prefer something more down to earth.
 
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If you are in Donegal you have to go to Malin Head. A drive around the coast line is well worth while. It really depends where in Donegal you are based, it is a big county. If you are close to the border you should spend a few hours in Derry, stroll around the walls and look at the Guildhall. Have a pint of Guiness in Sandino's.
 

Home and Dry said:
Off to Donegal for 3 days next week and wondering if anyone had any tips/advice for me and my good lady wife, with places to visit or things to see.
Thanks in advance.
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The area around Letterkenny is good mate, particularly around the village of Downings.

It's very very pretty, beautiful beaches, cracking pubs and the people are sound as long as you're not Northern Irish !
 
Downings is lovely
they still speak a bit of Gaeilge up that way, though most of it is between Gweedore and Adara

you could easily spend 3 days in just that area. It's a big county. The islands like Tory or Aran are also worth a look
 

COYBL25 said:
The area around Letterkenny is good mate, particularly around the village of Downings.

It's very very pretty, beautiful beaches, cracking pubs and the people are sound as long as you're not Northern Irish !
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My favourite beach in the whole world is near Downings.

Not the beach at Downings itself.....but just behind the Rosapenna Golf Club, a mile or two up the road toward Carrigart.

It is called Tramore Beach and is very easy to miss....one has to actually drive along a little known public Riad that takes you round the Clubhouse.

The car park is not worthy of the name and there are no facilities on the beach.....but once there it is mile after mile of golden sand making a half moon round a cove and the landscape looking across the water to the other side constantly changes.

It is magnificent.

If you are up that way @Home and Dry, just ask at the grocery store in Carrigart or Downings fir directions ;)

And ignore that bit about "Northern Irish" :)

Donegal tourism is about 90% people from over the border......you rarely encounter a Dub.

Mostly Belfast and Derry people, hi

And of course Donegal is more "Northen Irish" than any of the six counties are.....it being the most northerly county on the island :)
 
Khalekan said:
My favourite beach in the whole world is near Downings.

Not the beach at Downings itself.....but just behind the Rosapenna Golf Club, a mile or two up the road toward Carrigart.

It is called Tramore Beach and is very easy to miss....one has to actually drive along a little known public Riad that takes you round the Clubhouse.

The car park is not worthy of the name and there are no facilities on the beach.....but once there it is mile after mile of golden sand making a half moon round a cove and the landscape looking across the water to the other side constantly changes.

It is magnificent.

If you are up that way @Home and Dry, just ask at the grocery store in Carrigart or Downings fir directions ;)

And ignore that bit about "Northern Irish" :)

Donegal tourism is about 90% people from over the border......you rarely encounter a Dub.

Mostly Belfast and Derry people, hi

And of course Donegal is more "Northen Irish" than any of the six counties are.....it being the most northerly county on the island :)
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Lol, I went to a wedding in Downings, where the reception was held at the Rossapenna Golf Club. The reception lasted about eighteen hours and moved over to the Sands Hotel at around 10am the following day, where the drinking started again !
 
COYBL25 said:
Lol, I went to a wedding in Downings, where the reception was held at the Rossapenna Golf Club. The reception lasted about eighteen hours and moved over to the Sands Hotel at around 10am the following day, where the drinking started again !
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lol
 

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