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Fortress which force landed on a beach at Bundoran on 10 May 1943. Irish Army Archive reports confirm Harry X Ford's presence in Bundoran and not anywhere near Dunfanaghy or Portnablagh. Some sources published around 1993 attribute a landing on 2 May 1943 to have taken place on Killahoey Strand but this is an error confirmed by Irish Army Archives and the archives of the United States Air Force.
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This event became confused with another aircraft landing in 1943 when, in the early 1990s, an
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aircraft (42-66130) was forced to land on a beach near
Dunfanaghy. (Irish Army archive reports call this 'Hill Strand'.) It was feared the rising tides would swallow the plane, but 200 locals came out to pull it to safety. The aircraft was refuelled and the crew of four accommodated nearby
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led to their destabilisation and the movement of the sand to block up the river. As a result, the marsh filled with fresh water and became a lake. The sand also silted up
Dunfanaghy harbour. The New Lake became a haven for seabirds and is now a
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The centre of
Dunfanaghy is a small square with a market house built in 1847 and a quay built in 1831 and formerly used to export corn. There are four churches: the early 17th-century Clondehorky Old Church (now ruined), constructed during the
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In 2018, Dunfanaghy is very well served by bus services to and from
Letterkenny, the largest town in County Donegal. Buses are provided by Mangan Tours Buses, Gallagher Coaches, Feda O'Donnell Coaches and John McGinley Coaches.
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opened on 9 March 1903, closed for passenger traffic on 3 June 1940 and finally closed altogether on 6 January 1947. Lough Swilly Buses served the area with four buses per day going from
Dunfanaghy to
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Dunfanaghy man is now based in the US, and put in a man-of-the-match performance last week as Donegal New York saw off their Monaghan counterparts.
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in the 1930s and fulfilled this role until the 1960s. Since 1968 it has been used as an artists studio and gallery.
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overnight. They departed the next day to continue their delivery flight of the aircraft.
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Dudley Edwards, Robert (1976). Robert Dudley Edwards &Thomas Desmond Williams (ed.).
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of the Famine and its impact on the local inhabitants.
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fever hospital. Closed in 1922, it was reopened as a
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and known locally as 'the Chapel'); and Holy Trinity
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List of populated places in the Republic of Ireland
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1580:Inishmeane
1565:Inishdooey
1555:Inishbofin
1489:Meenagolan
1454:Drumardagh
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