The Gweedore Turf Burning Station

Built in one of the most spectacular locations in Ireland the Gweedore turf Burning station was a huge, green, steel building, it soared incongruously out of the rugged landscape of north-west Donegal.

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Marfach Ráithe: The Cromwellian massacre of Ray

The largest medieval stone cross in Ireland lies in the townland of Ray just outside the town of Falcarragh in Co Donegal. Standing in the ruins of the Church of Ray, the cross has an ancient history and has witnessed saints and slaughter.

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Black Jack Adair and the Derryveagh Evictions

It is often said that everyone is well thought off when they die, but there is one man with links to Gweedore of whom that can never be said. He was the Landlord ‘Black’ Jack Adair, the mastermind of the infamous Derryveagh Evictions.

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