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Donegal forums top 10 attractions?

  • 04-01-2011 6:56pm
    #1
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭


    Hey all, i was saving this for a Rainy / slow day,

    A while back we had a good few threads started for people looking for advise on places to visit when coming to Donegal, which got me thinking why don't we compile our own list of things to do / places to see in Donegal?

    I've had too much free time on my hands and done up a google map with the places i would add in there plotted on it, if anyone has any suggestions, anywhere at all, fell free to reply in here with it and i'll stick it up on the map, then after a while (a month or so) maybe we could have a vote / poll (although they mightn't be enough room in the poll) to compile a list of our, the Donegal forums, top 10 or something like that. If we did do a top ten maybe we could compile that list with photos and sticky it along with he google maps link :)

    Heres a link to what i have done so far on the map ..... Click me I have marked beaches / towns / attractions / scenic drives on it.


    So whatda think good idea / bad idea? Suggestions for places to add?


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  • #2
    Durnish
    Registered Users Posts: 692 ✭✭✭Durnish


    gosh, Homer, I thought this was going to be about your posters!

    Great work and I see that Doon Fort is even included, well done.


  • #3
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    seriously homer fantastic job but you do know there is Porn on the internet?


  • #4
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    danniemcq wrote: »
    seriously homer fantastic job but you do know there is Porn on the internet?


    Porn? hold on let me google that.....ohh i see :P

    Thanks, it honestly didn't take long to do, it'll save Muffler and me time / work in the long run by not having to keep pointing people to other threads here when they ask things that have already been answered.... well thats my thinking anyways he he.


  • #5
    ruanaidh
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭ruanaidh


    Nice work!


  • #6
    Ave Sodalis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,555 ✭✭✭Ave Sodalis


    That's great! Good idea

    I'd also add Grey Mare's Tail waterfall on the Bluestack Drive and Carnaween mountain climb :)


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  • #7
    RMDrive
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 554 ✭✭✭RMDrive


    Super job. But you've made it likely that this thread will be short on suggestions as you have covered almost everything!! :D

    Must get the thinking cap on.


  • #8
    xp90
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 583 ✭✭✭xp90


    Ah ya hoor your missing loads, wheres the glenties teenage disco??

    Quagmire.jpg


  • #9
    GoldenGreen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 213 ✭✭GoldenGreen


    Ards Friary http://www.ardsfriary.ie/ Retreat and conferance center also great walk out along the Ards Estuary that links up with the forest park.
    (Google Map cords: 55.157003,-7.865696 )


    Tramore Strand in Dunfanaghy: vote in top 10 breach walk in ireland.
    Cords: 55.18455250246648, -7.985343933105469 this is the starting point, walk across dunnes for 20 mins then on the beach, the walk in now marked with a map at the start of the walk. This walk brings you up to Mc Swyes Gun as well.

    Horn Head: (Cords: 55.21609841414742, -7.978177070617676)

    Ionad Cois Locha, Dunlewy: http://www.dunleweycentre.com/ (Cords: 55.024233836709136, -8.147048950195312)

    Muckish Mountain: Not sure of the starting point to climb it via the old miners path, but here is the cords for mountain (55.10921164121447, -7.991523742675781)

    Tory Island: (55.266084669775104, -8.22549819946289)

    Thats a few more for now


  • #10
    muckish
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 610 ✭✭✭muckish


    55.224083 -7.014066 View over Lough Foyle, greencastle
    55.234079 -6.932559 Head Road Shroove, WWII Lookout, portCill
    55.328085 -7.331929 View over 5 fingers Strand
    55.267878 -7.173602 Clonca Church & grave Carvings, high Cross
    55.272210 -7.148093 Bocan Stone Circle
    54.848355 -7.602761 Beltany Stone Circle
    55.104626 -8.002024 Muckish Mountain

    Just a few suggestions!


  • #11
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,305 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    muckish wrote: »
    Beltany Stone Circle
    Was just about to post that :)

    Well done Homer


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  • #12
    dee o gee
    Closed Accounts Posts: 365 ✭✭dee o gee


    What about the Inishowen 100 scenic drive, Doagh famine village, or Glenevin waterfall.


  • #13
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    How about The Poison Glen/Dunlewey and also Barnes Gap. They're nice runs if you just want a jaunt in the car.

    I'd put a major X on the map at the Dunlewey Centre though. Rip off. But maybe that's a topic for a different thread. ;)


  • #14
    North_West_Art
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭North_West_Art


    Bundoran, Rossnowlagh, Falcaragh and Fanad for surfing

    some of the best sea diving in Ireland

    Murvagh, Rosapena, Ballyliffin, Critch Island, Portnoo for golf

    deep sea fishing and boat hire from Teelin, Killybegs, Rathmullan, Portnablagh, Burtonport, Bunbeg, Mullinasole, Moville

    Tory Island

    Oakfield Park, Raphoe

    Muckish Mountain

    Dunree Fort


  • #15
    M.Pool
    Closed Accounts Posts: 185 ✭✭M.Pool


    The map is great Homer, am struggling to come up with more but here goes; boat trip on Donegal bay, ferry from Rathmullen to Buncrana, Murvagh beach outside Donegal Town, new arts centre in Letterkenny, day trip to Innisboffin.


  • #16
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    Thank all!

    I've updated the map with most of the places now, i couldn't find some of them but i'll get them eventually. There are some great suggestions in here, i've never thought about adding Golf course / Surfing locations / Fishing spots thats a great idea, added a few more symbols to make them more distinctive on the map too...

    Keep the suggestions coming, anyone thats directed to the map if they are looking for something to do will have a fairly hard job choosing where to go if this keeps up :P

    Edit: just in case your wondering, some of the locations dont show up on the map when you go to the link in the OP now, but if you go to the bottom of the location menu it gives you the option to go to a second page of locations :)


  • #17
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,305 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    How much is Bord Failte paying you for all this effort? :D


  • #18
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    muffler wrote: »
    How much is Bord Failte paying you for all this effort? :D

    A few beers on the next beers night :p


  • #19
    claudiaaims
    Registered Users Posts: 180 ✭✭claudiaaims


    The view of Errigal from Gola Island.


  • #20
    slimboyfat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 581 ✭✭✭slimboyfat


    Has anyone mentioned Tory Island yet?


  • #21
    muffler
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 46,305 ✭✭✭✭muffler


    slimboyfat wrote: »
    Has anyone mentioned Tory Island yet?
    Yup :)


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  • #22
    donegalgirl28
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 684 ✭✭✭donegalgirl28


    Is Carrickfinn not a blue flag beach??


  • #23
    TICKLE_ME_ELMO
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 23,931 Mod ✭✭✭✭TICKLE_ME_ELMO


    donegalgirl28 wrote: »
    Is Carrickfinn not a blue flag beach??

    According to Donegal CoCo there are 12 Blue Flag beaches in Donegal.
    Bundoran, Rossnowlagh, Murvagh, Fintra, Carrickfin, Narin, Killyhoey, Marble Hill, Portsalon, Lisfannon, Culdaff and Stroove


  • #24
    Madam
    Registered Users Posts: 1,501 ✭✭✭Madam


    What a good idea, gives me some ideas for when I go home. I've taken the family to most of the beaches and places of interest I can think of, but how many times can I say 'hey there's a really intersting graveyard/church up here'! lol Thanks again:)


  • #25
    danjo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 589 ✭✭✭danjo


    Great idea! Will have to change the title though to 10,000 attractions judging by the response.
    Great if you could incorporate photos from the photo game thread and the ones posted by muckish yesterday.

    This will be a great reference for tourism.


  • #26
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    ***Shameless bump***

    Just thought i've give this another wee mention to see if anyone else has anything to ad to the list, I must try and figure out some way to get a poll / vote organised for the first week in Feb :)


  • #27
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    Has anyone been to the windmills at Barnes. I remember being up there ages ago fishing and walking up the hill and looking down towards the sea the view was amazing.


  • #28
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    fontanalis wrote: »
    Has anyone been to the windmills at Barnes. I remember being up there ages ago fishing and walking up the hill and looking down towards the sea the view was amazing.

    Yeah i was actually in them, just after they had opened it was a class trip for a new subject CSPE or something it was called, photo of me in the front of the paper in it too :), i havn't got the foggiest how to get there / where it is not though? can you drive up to them?


  • #29
    fontanalis
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,619 ✭✭✭fontanalis


    homer_simpson wrote: »
    Yeah i was actually in them, just after they had opened it was a class trip for a new subject CSPE or something it was called, photo of me in the front of the paper in it too :), i havn't got the foggiest how to get there / where it is not though? can you drive up to them?

    There was always a road going up that direction but when the windmills went up it was improved. I can't remember the exact directions to the road but here it is on the ordnance survey website.
    http://maps.osi.ie/publicviewer/#V1,600792,882460,6


  • #30
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    Another wee bumity bump for this. I'll be doing a final one this weekend and stickying it (time permitting), so any other suggestions anyone?


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  • #31
    Focalbhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭Focalbhach


    The new "extension" of the Appalachian Trail (from Sliabh League through the Bluestacks, and onwards to Antrim)?


  • #32
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    Leto wrote: »
    The new "extension" of the Appalachian Trail (from Sliabh League through the Bluestacks, and onwards to Antrim)?

    Ya would have a link to a map of the route?


  • #33
    Focalbhach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 459 ✭✭Focalbhach


    homer_simpson wrote: »
    Ya would have a link to a map of the route?

    Well, this was the proposed route sometime before last November (from here). Today's Irish Times confirms Donegal's inclusion in the International Trail - the paper version has a wee graphic outlining the route, but it doesn't appear to be online.


  • #34
    North_West_Art
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,103 ✭✭✭North_West_Art


    Just thought of Beltany Stone Circle at Raphoe... link here
    and the Inishowen planetarium and maritime museum at Greencastle... link to Planetariun here


  • #35
    homer simpson
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,852 ✭✭✭homer simpson


    Its well on the way to being finished now (new thread made and stickied) i'm slowly adding in short descriptions and links to website photos regarding the individual items, so if anyone has any photos hosted(on the likes of flickr, pix.ie) and wouldn't mind having them linked from the description of the item please reply in here with the photo.

    Also if anyone wants to write a very quick review, as in a sentence to describe the place, please reply here with it and i'll add it in there (even one i have something already wrote for, as mines are very basic). I've only done the ones i know well so need loads more.


  • #36
    Penfailed
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,644 ✭✭✭Penfailed


    The Inishowen Quad Safari/Lazer Wars/Bumper Balls - http://www.inishowenquadsafari.ie/

    Gigs '24 - Ben Ottewell and Ian Ball (Gomez), The Jesus & Mary Chain, The Smashing Pumpkins/Weezer, Pearl Jam, Green Day, Stendhal Festival, Forest Fest, Electric Picnic, Pixies, Ride, Therapy?, Public Service Broadcasting, IDLES(x2), And So I Watch You From Afar



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  • #37
    Buck
    Registered Users Posts: 250 ✭✭Buck


    Thanks Homer, just back from a long weekend in Donegal. Found this thread very helpful. :D


  • #38
    Pangea
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,565 ✭✭✭Pangea


    I dont see Fintragh Beach on that map, Its a Blue Flag beach. :)


  • #39
    frii
    Registered Users Posts: 27 ✭frii


    So what is the top 10? :)


  • #40
    TroutMask
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 743 ✭✭✭TroutMask


    Daniel O'Donnell Centre in Dungloe has to be in the Top 10


  • #41
    DonegalCat
    Registered Users Posts: 1 ✭DonegalCat


    Hello folks.

    Great idea for a thread.

    Can I just add another place ~ Bonny Glen Wood near Ardara. Sorry, I don't know how to get the co-ordinates.

    It's a beautiful woodland near Ardara (out past the Kilclooney Dolmen) with an interesting history.

    It is said that several families during the famine were offered tickets on boats to America if they gave the land over to the Porter Estate.

    There is no entrance fee, plenty of parking and lots of tables & benches dotted along the way where you can take a picnic.

    There are two laid out walks (one short and the other a little longer) and there are 3 lakes in the woods. It is a natural habitat to many species of butterfly, bird, and even deer.

    The paths seem easy enough to push a baby chair along (I saw parents with strollers there and they didn't seem to have any bother).


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  • #42
    NIMAN
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 33,989 ✭✭✭✭NIMAN


    As someone who lives near it, its a shame that Malin Head has no proper visitor centre.

    I think one was touted, not sure if it will ever go ahead, but most countries would have some sort of marking of their most northerly point. I think there's something at the Mizen Head end, isn't there?


  • #43
    caustic 1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,314 ✭✭✭caustic 1


    I think Malin head is stunning without adding a visitor centre, somehow I think would take away from the wildness if there was one there. Just my opinion.


  • #44
    NIMAN
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    You may be right, but if tourists are going to make the effort to get there, then the least they could have would be decent facilities to maybe use a toilet or get a bite to eat.


  • #45
    icescreamqueen
    Closed Accounts Posts: 680 ✭✭✭icescreamqueen


    Would like to add www.grassroutes.ie to the list of things to do in Donegal. They are based in Termon and they hire out electric and normal bikes but they will bring out the bikes to you within a reasonable distance from Termon. Myself and my sister hired out the bikes from Glenveagh castle and we had the most amazing day cycling around Glenveagh and Churchill. It was one of the best days out I've had in Donegal and is such a great way to get off the beaten track but doesn't require an amazing level of fitness lol. A big thumbs up for this business and a major boast for Donegal. An maith :)


  • #46
    annascott
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,271 ✭✭✭annascott


    Would it be possible to compile a list of top 20 things to do that doesn't involve looking at scenery or pubs?
    I just can't think of anything but there must be stuff out there.

    1. Bowling at Arena 7 Letterkenny
    2. Cinema - Letterkenny, Lifford and Bundoran
    3. Dog Racing - Lifford
    4. ????


  • #47
    retalivity
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,508 ✭✭✭✭retalivity


    Plenty of outdoor activities to be had:

    Numerous golf courses all over the place, or pitch and putt for easier/cheaper alternative
    Climb errigal/muckish/slieve snaght
    Canoeing & deep sea fishing out of Bunbeg/Burtonport (probably others)
    The go-karting centre on the ramelton road seems to still be open and has added other activities http://lkactivitycentre.com


  • #48
    danniemcq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    retalivity wrote: »
    Canoeing & deep sea fishing out of Bunbeg/Burtonport (probably others)

    Rathmullen too, you can charter a boat and head to the wrecks out at the mouth of the lough or just head somewhere along the Swilly and there is also the fishing festival coming up now in June.


  • #49
    guttenberg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 960 ✭✭✭guttenberg


    Donegal Airsoft in Newtowncunningham is also pretty good (they do an airsoft and archery package). Pushing the boat here but you can also get lovely Pink and White ice cream ( it's a 99) in Buncrana. I've been known to drive the half hour there just for it. :o:D


  • #50
    firemansam4
    Registered Users Posts: 1,717 ✭✭✭firemansam4


    not sure if anyone has mentioned oakfield park Raphoe?
    www.oakfieldpark.com


  • #51
    Iwernia
    Registered Users Posts: 149 ✭✭Iwernia


    http://www.donegalbaywaterbus.com/


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