43-627: The Inishowen Independent is a local print and digital newspaper for Inishowen , County Donegal , Ireland . It has offices at 66 Millbrae in Buncrana . Launched in March 2007, it is one of several regional newspapers in the area. The newspaper's print edition is published every Tuesday. The 48-page newspaper is owned locally and produced by journalists living in Inishowen.. Its output includes news, features, sports reports and event coverage for
86-469: A High King of Ireland ), whose name was also used for Tyrone (Irish: Tír Eoghain ). Inis Eoghain is also the ancient homeland of the Meic Lochlainn (descended from the tribe of Eoghan), a clan that grew so formidable that they eventually came under siege by a Limerick King, who came north to Aileach, and ordered the destruction of Aileach fort, and that each soldier was to carry away a stone from
129-406: A capacity of 11,000 tons. By 1835 wharves extended from the shipquay back to the bridge, on the slob lands (alluvial deposits ) south of the city. By the 1840s the port had a thriving shipbuilding business and was known for building clipper ships, though shipbuilding at the port declined after the introduction of iron vessels, and no large ships were built for some decades after 1846. In 1854
172-584: A quay to be built into the river for loading and unloading; this was the Shipquay, downhill from the city, giving rise to Shipquay Street and the Shipquay Gate. By the end of the 18th century the city had its first bridge across the river, a new quay, and the shoreline below the Water Bastion had been reclaimed. It was reported that in 1771 that the merchants of the city owned 67 ships, with
215-483: A ringfort that served as the royal seat of the over-kingdom of Ailech , stands at the entrance to the peninsula. The main towns and villages of Inishowen are: Inishowen is a peninsula of 884.33 square kilometres (218,523 acres), situated in the northernmost part of the island of Ireland . It is bordered to the north by the Atlantic Ocean , to the east by Lough Foyle , and to the west by Lough Swilly . It
258-542: A marked contrast to the more mountainous area surrounding it. Ptolemy 's Geography (2nd century) described a point called Ουεννικνιον ( Wenniknion , perhaps from * wen - "friends") which probably referred to Inishowen. Predating the formation of County Donegal by centuries, the area was named Inis Eoghain (the Island of Eoghan) after Eógan mac Néill , son of Niall of the Nine Hostages ( Niall Naoigeallach ,
301-587: A national level, Inishowen forms part of the Donegal constituency , which elects five TDs to Dáil Éireann , the lower house of the Oireachtas (the Irish Parliament ). At the county level, Inishowen is an electoral area, a Municipal District , electing nine councillors to Donegal County Council . Currently there are three members of Fianna Fáil , two each of Sinn Féin and Fine Gael , one from
344-418: A new graving dock (£25,000), flats deepened (£7,000) leading to an expansion in trade of all kinds. Of coastal traffic the total tonnage handled in 1857 had been 148,291 t (for steamers), and 45,676 t (sailing ships); in 1867 it was 134,368 t and 67,304 t respectively. In foreign trade, 1857 saw 27,637 t entering the port; in 1867 it was 40,397 t, while in 1857 transatlantic traffic
387-500: A regular basis by any of them. Local clubs include Beart CLG (in Burt ), Buncrana GAA club, Carndonagh GAA club, Malin GAA club, Moville GAA club, Naomh Pádraig GAA club ( Muff ), and Urris GAA club. The Inishowen Football League (IOFL) is an amateur league for football (soccer) clubs in the Inishowen peninsula. Inishowen Rugby Club is based at Carndonagh. Other sports in
430-553: Is a lay-by with a large map and information boards. The first leg of the coastal route is along the coast of Lough Swilly . It passes Inch Island , Fahan (a blue flag beach), Fahan 18-hole Golf Course, Buncrana Town, Tullyarvan Mill (An interpretive centre tracing over 250 years of textile production in the Buncrana area.). It continues along the western coast on Lough Swilly . The route passes Dunree beach, Dunree Fort (military museum) and then turns inland for Mamore Gap (between
473-581: Is at Lisahally , County Londonderry , though historically the port was upriver in the city of Derry itself. It is operated by the Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners, whose former offices, just north of the city's walls, are now a museum. The River Foyle has been an entryport since before the time of Saint Columba , and was used by the Vikings and the Normans . At the time the river
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#1732780922570516-505: Is housed in an extension built to the museum. There is a memorial to those lost at sea from the Inishowen Peninsula in front of the museum. Inishowen has a number of Gaelic football clubs which represent the various parishes on the peninsula. Each club has different football teams for both sexes and a variety of age groups. While hurling is played at underage level by all the clubs there is, of yet, no adult team fielded on
559-715: Is joined at the south to the rest of the island and is mostly in County Donegal in the Republic of Ireland . The south-eastern part of the peninsula lies in County Londonderry , Northern Ireland , having been transferred from County Donegal at the behest of the London companies as part of the Plantation of Ulster in the early 17th century. The peninsula is separated from the rest of Northern Ireland by
602-621: Is located at the site of the former coastal defence and fortification at Fort Dunree . During the Napoleonic Wars , the fort was built to defend Lough Swilly . The museum includes restored guns, a military camp and underground bunkers. The Inishowen Maritime Museum & Planetarium was founded in 1994 by maritime history enthusiasts who raised funds to buy the Old Coast Guard Station on Greencastle Harbor. The museum includes photographs and artefacts. A planetarium
645-470: Is much shallower than Lough Swilly, and requires the use of a guide boat to guide ships to and from Londonderry Port . A large area of land, most of which now forms part of Grianán Farm , one of the largest farms in Ireland, was reclaimed from a shallow area of Lough Swilly, stretching from the village of Burnfoot to Bridgend and Burt. The outline of this land is plainly visible due to its flatness, showing
688-578: Is technically no longer an island, as it has a causeway connecting it to the mainland at Tooban , south of Fahan. Lough Swilly is a fjord -like lough, and was of strategic importance for many years to the British Empire as a deep-water harbour. It is also famous as the departure point of the Flight of the Earls . Lough Foyle is important as the entrance to the river Foyle, and the city of Derry, but
731-574: Is the Derry Journal , published in nearby Derry city, since 1772. It still serves the peninsula as a paper of record . Inishowen is at the starting (or ending) point of the Wild Atlantic Way . The Inishowen 100 tourist route is an approximately 100-mile signposted scenic drive around the peninsula. It takes in or passes nearby many of the tourist sights and places of interest on the peninsula. It starts at Bridgend where there
774-604: The Inishowen peninsula. The newspaper has campaigned on local issues such as the mica crisis facing householders on the peninsula, politics, and environmental issues. Inishowen Inishowen ( Irish : Inis Eoghain , meaning 'island of Eoghan') is a peninsula in the north of County Donegal in Ireland. Inishowen is the largest peninsula on the island of Ireland . The Inishowen peninsula includes Ireland's most northerly point, Malin Head . The Grianan of Aileach ,
817-722: The Labour Party and one independent. In addition to the radio stations and newspapers available elsewhere in Donegal, there are several media outlets that are based solely on the peninsula, including two newspapers (the Inish Times and the Inishowen Independent , both of which are published in Buncrana) and one online daily local news service ( InishowenNews.com ). The traditional news source for Inishowen
860-1006: The River Foyle . After the last ice age , the peninsula was an island. Most of Inishowen's population inhabits the peripheral coastal areas, while the interior consists of low mountains, mostly covered in bogland , the highest of which is Slieve Snaght , which is 619 metres (2,030 feet) above sea level. Other major hills are located in the Malin Head peninsula, as well as the Urris Hills in west Inishowen. Due to its geography, Inishowen usually has relatively more moderate weather conditions, with temperatures slightly lower than in other parts of Ireland in summer and slightly warmer in winter, especially during extended cold weather periods. Inishowen has several harbours, some of which are used for commercial fishing purposes, including Greencastle, Bunagee and Leenan. A seasonal ferry service crosses
903-754: The Urris Hills and Raghtin More mountain), Leenan Bay, Dunaff, Head, Tullagh Bay (a blue flag beach), through the villages of Clonmany and Ballyliffin. Ballyliffin has an 18-hole golf course. The route then passes the Isle of Doagh (where there is a famine museum and an interpretive centre). Next is Carndonagh - the second largest town in Inishowen, after which the route turns North again through Malin Town , past Five Fingers Strand and then up onto cliff top viewpoint at Knockamany Bens, then down again to sea level with
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#1732780922570946-624: The Burns and Laird steamer until the late 1960s. Manufactured items including linen, linoleum and shirts were exported to Great Britain for onward distribution. The McCorkell Line sailed from here. The outbreak of the Second World War , and the German campaign against Allied shipping, saw the establishment of a naval base, HMS Ferret on the Foyle, with the use of port facilities in
989-544: The Foyle Port Marina offers more than 600 metres (2,000 ft) of secure, deep-water berthing. Most of the current Londonderry Port is in the townland of Lisahally (or Lissahawley), a toponym that may be derived from Irish Lios a' Chalaidh ' ringfort of the landing place'. The port has witnessed mass emigration of Irish and Scots-Irish people over the centuries to North America, Scotland, England and Australia. Lisahally F.C. , which
1032-786: The Foyle by way of the lower deck of the Craigavon Bridge, which was dual gauge. Two of the LPHC locomotives survived into preservation- No. 1, which is at the Ulster Folk & Transport Museum in Cultra, and No. 3, which is owned by the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland at Whitehead. The port saw the transport of many goods over the centuries. Seed potatoes were shipped to places as far away as Egypt . Cattle were regularly shipped to and from Glasgow by
1075-624: The Foyle, connecting Greencastle with Magilligan in County Londonderry, while another crosses the Swilly, connecting Buncrana with Rathmullan . The village of Fahan has a privately built marina . There are several small outlying islands off the Inishowen coast, most notably Inishtrahull and Glashedy islands, both uninhabited, although the former was inhabited until the early twentieth century. Inch , located in Lough Swilly ,
1118-401: The Londonderry Port & Harbour Commissioners were established to manage the port and oversee its expansion. The Commissioners were also given full control of the waterways from the city to the mouth of Lough Foyle, allowing for strategic planning of the port. An 1868 report describing the city's expansion mentioned the expenditure on the port: New docks and quays built (at a cost of £126,500),
1161-539: The area include cycling, golf, horse riding, kayaking , shooting (for example at North Inishowen Gun Club [1] ), surfing and rock climbing. Londonderry Port Londonderry Port , now operating as Foyle Port , is a port located on Lough Foyle in Northern Ireland . It is the United Kingdom ’s most westerly port and an important northerly port on the island of Ireland . The current port
1204-482: The banks of the River Foyle. This and with the need for deep water moorings for larger vessels saw the port moved to the docks at Lisahally in 1993. These docks were originally used by DuPont to import raw materials for their manufacturing process and by the nearby Coolkeeragh power station to import fuel oil for their turbines. In 1995 the port welcomed the cruise ship Southern Cross , with 800 passengers,
1247-451: The city centre berths, at its commercial port at Lisahally as well as the tender port of Greencastle . In July 2003 Foyle Port installed the first of its two permanent pontoons referred to as the Foyle Port Marina in the heart of the city. The marina facility consists of a 200 metres (660 ft)-long wooden structure (south), later a second pontoon was established close by adding a 140-metre (460 ft) concrete structure (north). Overall,
1290-752: The city, and the building of new quays at Lisahally, at the mouth of the river where it enters the lough. Londonderry Port and the docks at Lisahally gave vital service to the Allies in the longest running campaign of the Second World War, the Battle of the Atlantic . This ended with the surrender of the German U-boat fleet at Lisahally on 14 May 1945. About a dozen boats came alongside for that official surrender, taken by Admiral Sir Max Horton in
1333-639: The control of the Londonderry Port & Harbour Commissioner (LPHC). This railway had connections to the other railways in Derry; The Great Northern and the Northern Counties Committee , both of which were 5ft3 gauge , and thanks to a length of dual gauge , the County Donegal Railways Joint Committee and Londonderry & Lough Swilly Railway , which were 3 ft . Wagons could be shunted across
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1376-434: The entire length connected to the four rail systems serving the city. The port had regular cross-channel services to Great Britain, and steamer services to North America. The Commissioners ensured the channel was dredged and well marked, and also maintained a pilot station at Inishowen Head , and a roadstead at Moville , which was a port of call for transatlantic steamers carrying mail. The port had its own railway yard, under
1419-420: The first to visit for 40 years. In recent years Londonderry Port and Harbour Commissioners have established a number of diversified trading divisions marketed under the "Foyle" brand: Lisahally Terminal has 440 metres (1,440 ft) of quay and can facilitate vessels up to 62,000 GT. Primarily a bulk port and major importer of oil, coal, animal feed, fertiliser and plywood the port also accepts cruise ships at
1462-732: The fort in order to prevent its rebuilding. Later, after the decline of the Meic Lochlainn, the Norman Earldom of Ulster expanded into Inishowen, founding Greencastle in the process. After the Bruce invasion in the early 14th century, the Ó Dochartaigh clan (descended from the tribe of Conaill), gradually conquered it as they lost their own homeland in the Laggan, a district in the east of Tír Conaill. Inishowen has many historical monuments, dating back to early settlements, including
1505-658: The main castle ruins of Inishowen are Carrickabraghey on the Isle of Doagh , the Norman Castle at Greencastle, Inch Castle, Buncrana Castle and Elagh Castle. In 1196, John de Courcy , an Anglo-Norman knight who had invaded Ulster in 1177, defeated the King of the Cenél Conaill and most of County Donegal was at his mercy. Two years later he returned to devastate Inishowen. However, in subsequent campaigns de Courcy
1548-427: The presence of US, Canadian and Republic of Ireland commanders; the other U-boats arrived over the next several weeks. Eventually all were dispatched to sea and sunk. The waterfront area of the city was redeveloped in the 1990s. The cattle-holding pens that used to be near where the current British Telecom building stands were demolished along with the transit sheds in order to create a new road and car parking along
1591-466: The road heads South along Lough Foyle, it passes through Moville town, Quigley's Point and the village of Muff . The famine village on the Isle of Doagh in Lagacurry takes visitors on a tour from the famine days of the 1840s to the present. It includes thatched cottages, a large walk-through museum, and guided tours of life in an isolated place living on the edge. Fort Dunree Military Museum
1634-561: The route looking out into the Atlantic, before heading to Ireland's most northerly point Malin Head . On the North Eastern coast, the route passes through Culdaff village and Culdaff Bay (another Blue Flag beach), Tramone Bay, and Kinnagoe Bay . Further East, it reaches Lough Foyle and then Greencastle (a port used by fishing boats and a landing point for the car ferry from Magilligan in Northern Ireland). Then, as
1677-521: The ruins of several castles, and the fort at Grianán Aileach. The ancient Grianán Ailigh fort at Burt was the one-time seat of the High Kings of Ireland, including both High Kings of the Meic Lochlainn, who held power in Inis Eoghain for many centuries. It was restored in the nineteenth century, although some damage in recent years has resulted in the partial collapse of the south side wall. Among
1720-521: Was defeated by Clan O'Neill and their Chief Áed Méith and found himself unable to conquer the western part of Ulster. In 1608 Sir Cahir O'Doherty , the Chief of the Name of Clan O'Doherty and Lord of Inishowen, launched O'Doherty's Rebellion by burning Derry . After the defeat of the uprising, most of Clan O'Doherty's territory was awarded to Arthur Chichester . In 1990, an O'Doherty clan ceremony
1763-533: Was held in Derry , during which Ramon Salvador O'Dogherty of Spain was installed as ceremonial "Lord of Inishowen" and received a traditional white wand of office. Ireland's deadliest road accident happened at Inishowen in July 2010. At the last Census of Ireland in 2016 , Inishowen counted a population of 40,544 Buncrana is the largest town in Inishowen, with a 2016 population of 6,785 in its urban area. On
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1806-405: Was non-existent; by 1867 it had grown to 258,086 t. The total trade figures for port were given as 221,604 t, in 1857, compared to 500,373 t ten years later. The Foyle Shipyard, founded in 1882, brought shipbuilding back to the port, but it ceased trading in 1892. By the 1920s the port boasted two miles of quays, with warehouses, stationary and mobile cranes, and with railways along
1849-495: Was wider and more shallow, and as ships grew larger, they would anchor close in to shore and unload by lighter. The planting of the walled city on the west bank of the Foyle necessitated a more efficient approach, and the port of Londonderry was created in 1664 by the charter granted by King Charles II to the Londonderry Corporation making them responsible for its regulation and upkeep. The corporation caused
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