Fort DunreeThe coastal artillery fort on the headland over Lough Swilly is a military museum now, with the gun emplacements still in place.
Lighthouse
Fanad Head Lighthouse
Portsalon, County Donegal
The lighthouse at the mouth of Lough Swilly is still working, and the old keepers' houses take visitors.
Enjoy a tour of Fanad Lighthouse.
- Where
- Portsalon, County Donegal
- Address
- Cionn Fhánada, Earra Thíre na Binne, Baile Láir
- Official site
- fanadlighthouse.com
- Map
- Directions · OpenStreetMap
- Before you go
- Opening times, prices and access change. Check with the place itself.
Nearby
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Muckish MountainThe flat top above Creeslough is the shape you will remember, and an 8.3 kilometre bog and track loop runs around the foot of it.
Doe CastleThe tower house stands on a low spit in Sheephaven Bay, water on three sides of it and a rock cut ditch on the fourth.
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