Run on Feirste

Run na Feirste Run na Feirste
Coordinates	55 ° 3 ′  N , 8 ° 14 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 3 ′  N , 8 ° 14 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Ireland
province	Ulster
county	Donegal
height	34 m
Residents	309 (2016)
Telephone code	+353 (0) 74

Rann na Feirste [ ɾan̪ n̪ə ˈfʲɛɾʃtʲə ] ( Anglicized Ranafast , Rannafast or Rinnafarset , former name Ceann Dubhrann ) is a townland and village in the Anagaire constituency in the na Rosa region ("the foothills", English the Rosses ) in the west of the county Donegal in Ireland , 230 km northwest of the capital Dublin . In 2016 there were 309 people living in the village.

language

Rann na Feirste is located in the Gaeltacht region of Donegal. Irish is the main language of the place and therefore the Irish form of the place name is the only official one. The name means "the cape of the tidal sand bank " (Kap: rinn , in dialect rann , the tidal sand bank : an fhearsaid , genitive na feirste ). In the 2016 census, 90.4% of the population of Rann na Feirste reported speaking Irish and 83.1% of the population speak Irish every day. Every summer many students come to Coláiste Bhríde , which was founded in 1926, to study Irish and learn about Irish culture.

nature

Street in Rann na Feirste

The area consists mainly of grassland and is flat in the west, hilly in the east. The sea is northwest. The highest point nearby (5.7 km east) is the mountain at Grogán Mór , 453 meters above sea level. The area around Rann Na Feirste is very sparsely populated with 3 inhabitants per square kilometer. The next largest municipality is Gaoth Dobhair , 5.1 km east of Rann Na Feirste. In the vicinity of Rann Na Feirste there are an unusually large number of named bays, islands and lakes. The climate is temperate. The average annual temperature in the region is 6 ° C. The warmest month is June when the average temperature is 12 ° C. The coldest month is January with 0 ° C.

Sons and daughters

Well-known locals included the writers Séamus Ó Grianna (1891–1969) and Seosamh Mac Grianna .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rann na Feirste (Census Town) on citypopulation.de, accessed on February 25, 2019