Lough Swilly
The Lough Swilly ( Irish : Loch Súilí ) is a fjord-like inlet, between the peninsulas Fanad the west and Inishowen in the east to the north of the Republic of Ireland in County Donegal is. It is about 45 kilometers long and three to five kilometers wide in the middle.
The north end of Lough Swilly line Fanad Head and Dunaff Head . Places on the edge of the estuary are Buncrana in the east and Rathmullan and Portsalon in the west. At the south end of Lough Swilly is the town of Letterkenny .
After a failed uprising in September 1607 , Aodh Mór Ó Néill, 2nd Earl of Tyrone (2nd Earl of Tyrone ) and Rory O'Donnell (1st Earl of Tyrconnell ) left Rathmullan via Lough Swilly Ireland; also known as the Escape of the Counts . In October 1798 , during the Irish Rebellion of 1798, a French fleet, which was to land troops under the leadership of Wolfe Tone , was intercepted and destroyed at the entrance to Lough Swilly.
Lough Swilly was used by the Royal Navy as an anchorage during World War I and the English built a number of forts on the edge of the Lough to secure it. The remains of some of the forts can be seen at Lenan Head , Dunree (now a museum) or near Buncrana , among others . Lough Swilly was also one of the treaty ports that remained under the rule of the English until 1938 after the formation of the Irish Free State by the Anglo-Irish Treaty .
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Coordinates: 55 ° 10 ′ 23 " N , 7 ° 32 ′ 25" W.