Carrickfinn BeachPale sand beside Donegal Airport, with wildflower grassland behind the dunes.
Island
Arranmore
Burtonport, County Donegal
People live on it, off the west coast, and the northern side is high cliff. The ferry runs from Burtonport.
The largest of County Donegal's off shore Islands, Árainn Mhór is a wild and rugged place with fantastic cliff scenery, dramatic sea caves and golden sandy beaches.
- Where
- Burtonport, County Donegal
- Address
- Arranmore
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
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Carrickfinn BeachPale sand beside Donegal Airport, with wildflower grassland behind the dunes.
Kilclooney DolmenA portal tomb with a capstone over four metres long, up on a ridge northwest of Ardara.
Mount ErrigalThe quartzite cone above Dunlewey is 751 metres, and a marked path goes up from a car park on the R251.
Glencolmcille Folk VillageThatched cottages rebuilt in a row on a hillside above the beach, each one furnished to a different century. It opens from Easter to the end of October.
Toraigh (Tory Island)People live on it, about fourteen kilometres offshore, and the eastern end is cliff. The ferry goes from Magheroarty.
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Malin HeadViewpoint · MalinIreland's most northerly point, with a signal tower, a car park and a cliff path down to Hell's Hole.
Fanad Head LighthouseLighthouse · PortsalonThe lighthouse at the mouth of Lough Swilly is still working, and the old keepers' houses take visitors.
Grianan of AileachFort · BurtThe drystone ringfort sits 250 metres up in Inishowen and looks down on both Lough Swilly and Lough Foyle.
Donegal CastleCastle · Donegal townThe OPW restored this 15th century O'Donnell tower house and its Jacobean wing, in the middle of the town.
Doe CastleCastle · CreesloughThe tower house stands on a low spit in Sheephaven Bay, water on three sides of it and a rock cut ditch on the fourth.
Ards Forest ParkForest · CreesloughWoodland on a peninsula in Sheephaven Bay, with marked trails, dunes and several small beaches inside it.
Fort DunreeFort · BuncranaThe coastal artillery fort on the headland over Lough Swilly is a military museum now, with the gun emplacements still in place.