Ranafast
Ranafast
Irish: Rann na Feirste Rinnafarset | |
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Village | |
| A view of Ranafast A view of Ranafast | |
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| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Barony | Boylagh |
| Government | |
| • Dáil constituency | Donegal |
| Population | |
• Total | 350 |
| Irish Grid Reference | B847228 |
| Rann na Feirste is the only official name. The anglicised spellings Rannafast and Rinnafarset have no official status. | |
Ranafast or Rinnafarset, officially only known by its Irish name Rann na Feirste (IPA: [ˌɾˠaːn̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈfʲɛɾˠʃtʲə]),[2][3] is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Rosses district in the west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.[4][5]
Name
[edit | edit source]Ranafast,[4] or sometimes Rannafast[6] or Rinnafarset,[2] is the anglicised version of the area's original and official name Rann na Feirste.[2][3]
Language
[edit | edit source]Ranafast is a Gaeltacht area, therefore the Irish language is the predominantly spoken language. According to the 2016 census 90.4% of the population of Ranafast could speak Irish and 66.6% of the population spoke Irish daily outside the education system.[1][7]
Arts and culture
[edit | edit source]The writers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seosamh Mac Grianna were born in Ranafast.[8][9]
The storyteller and writer, Mici (Sheáin Néill) Ó Baoill, was from Ranafast.[10][11]
Education
[edit | edit source]There is a primary gaelcoil, Scoil Naisiunta Olibhear Pluinceid (Oliver Plunkett National School), located in the village.[12]
Coláiste Bhríde is an Irish-language Gaeltacht College that was established in the village by Fr Lorcán Ó Muireadhaigh in August 1926.[13][14][15] The college was formerly based in Omeath, County Louth from 1912-1926.[14][15] A number of notable people have attended the college including T. K. Whitaker, Éamon de Valera, Bernadette McAliskey, Phil Coulter, and Cardinal Tomás O Fiaich.[13][16]
See also
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- ^ a b An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) 2004, Bailte fearainn (Townlands) (S.I. No. 872 of 2004). Signed on 21 December 2004 by Éamon Ó Cuív. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 11 December 2025.
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