Ranafast
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Ranafast
Irish: Rann na Feirste Rinnafarset | |
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Village | |
 A view of Ranafast | |
  Ranafast Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 55°02′04″N 8°18′22″W / 55.034569°N 8.306013°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Barony | Boylagh |
| Government | |
| • Dáil constituency | Donegal |
| Population | 350 |
| Irish Grid Reference | B847228 |
| Rann na Feirste is the only official name. The anglicised spellings Rannafast and Rinnafarset have no official status. | |
Ranafast or Rinnafarset, officially only known by its Irish name Rann na Feirste (IPA: [ˌɾˠaːn̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈfʲɛɾˠʃtʲə]),[2][3] is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Rosses district in the west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.
Name[edit]
Ranafast, or sometimes Rannafast or Rinnafarset, is the anglicised version of the area's original and official name Rann na Feirste.
Language[edit]
Ranafast is a Gaeltacht area, therefore the Irish language is the predominantly spoken language. According to the 2016 census 90.4% of the population of Ranafast could speak Irish and 66.6% of the population spoke Irish daily outside the education system.[1][4]
Arts and culture[edit]
The writers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seosamh Mac Grianna were born in Ranafast.[citation needed]
Education[edit]
Coláiste Bhríde is an Irish-language Gaeltacht College and was established in 1926.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Sapmap Area: Settlements Rann Na Feirste". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "Rann na Feirste / Rinnafarset". logainm.ie / Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004. The townland's name is also sometimes spelt in Irish as Rinn na Feirste.
- ^ "Irish Language and the Gaeltacht - CSO - Central Statistics Office". CSO. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ "Coláiste Bhríde, Rann na Feirste".
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