Bundoran
Coordinates: 54 ° 29 ′ N , 8 ° 17 ′ W
Bundoran ( Irish : Bun Dobhráin ) is a coastal town in County Donegal in the northwest of the Republic of Ireland .
Geography and data
Bundoran is located a few kilometers south of Ballyshannon in the extreme south of County Donegal, right on the border with County Leitrim on the N15 from Lifford via Donegal Town to Sligo Town . This is also where the Irish Bottleneck is located , so that the remaining area of the Republic of Ireland is only about 6 km wide at this point through a far west protruding border tip of Northern Ireland and Bundoran is also passed by everyone who comes from travel west of Ireland to County Donegal without entering the UK .
The population of Bundoran (with the surrounding area) was determined in the 2016 census as 1963 people.
European surfers consider the coast near Bundoran, in the south of Donegal Bay , to be one of the best Irish beaches with good opportunities and excellent water quality.
history
Bundoran has retained the character of a seaside resort to this day. The first mention of Bundoran goes back to the year 1777, when William Cole, 1st Viscount Enniskillen built his summer residence Bundoran Lodge there. More and more his wealthy contemporaries followed him as visitors, who discovered Bundoran for the beach and the sea air.
Up until the middle of the 19th century, today's Bundoran consisted of two separate villages. Bundoran was the village west of the bridge over the River Bradog, now known as the West End . To the east of the bridge, about two kilometers away, was the village of Single Street . Between these two separate parishes was the townland of Drumacrin . This area is now part of the present city center. It was only after the station opened under the name Bundoran in 1866 that the two individual communities continued to develop and grew together to form today's Bundoran. The majority of the local population lived in Single Street , while across the bridge, in what is now the West End , mainly the wealthy newcomers resided.
With the increase in the trend to travel, especially by rail, the popularity of Bundoran jumped the class barriers and more and more Irish from the east coast discovered the charm of the place and also returned here year after year, so that Bundoran finally at the end of the 19th century was one of the most popular seaside resorts or seaside resorts in Ireland and hotels and guest houses opened in large numbers all over the city. Before the “Irish economic miracle” began at the end of the 1980s, a drive along the road along the coast still exuded the charm of this era.
A devastating hotel fire in the heart of the city in August 1980 killed ten people, locals and tourists.
Twin cities
Bundoran is a member of Douzelage , a European city federation, to which one city from one country of the European Union belongs.
Personalities
- Liam MacDaid (* 1945), Roman Catholic bishop
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Map of Ireland (can be enlarged greatly)
- ↑ Bundoran (agglomeration) on citypopulation.de, accessed on October 7, 2017
- ^ NYT : Emerald Swell: Riding the Frigid Waves of a Raging Sea. March 25, 2008
