tourist attractions donegal

Overlooking Lough Swilly, Fort Dunree is a military museum with special emphasis on coastal artillery and the military history of the North West. It has a large display of artefacts, an audio-visual display and large coastal artillery pieces in their original location.

There is a tea and coffee shop available to visitors.

Groups can visit the museum at any time of the year by prior arrangement....

Situated midway between Dungloe and Burtonport is Lough Meela. Meela hugs the rugged coast of west Donegal. The lake is in a rock strewn blanket bog setting.
Meela is well known for it's trout fishing....

Lough Anure is scenically situated in the north-east of Dungloe. This is a very popular boating and sea-angling centre. The Lough flows into sea trough the River Crolly....

Located in southeast Donegal and skirted by the Ulster Way, Barnesmore Gap is formed by the space between Barnesmore and Croaghconnellagh....

Located on the N15 road to Donegal Town from Ballybofey, Barnsemore and its partner Croaghconnellagh stand like lofty sentinels on either side of Barnesmore Gap.it was formed by galical movement during the Ice-Age....

Lough Eske is a large lake found to the south of the Blue Stack Mountains. The River Eske flows from the lake entering the sea at Rossnowlagh. By the lakeshore you will see some tall gateposts. The much overgrown avenue behind the gates leads to Lough Eske Castle.

The estate was developed by the Brooke family in the 18th century, and the house that they built was a reconstruction of an earlier Jacobean building.The present ruin was built in the middle of the 19th century by Thomas...

Under the shadow of the Blue Stack Mountains is Lough Bellshade. The lake has good stocks of charr and also contains brown trout. There is a small wood adjacent containing mainly oak, although birch, holly, rowan and hazel as well as a great variety of plants and shrubs are also found there....

This is the birth place of Mickey McGowan, the author of "Rotha Mor an tSaoil" (The Hard Road to Klondike). A 17th century thatched cottage situated on the main route from Gortahork to Bloody Foreland, it is close too to the ferry point for Tory Island. There are guided tours available, a 15 minute film, toilets and a small cafe which serves snacks only.

It is situated in the Gaeltacht in the parish of cloughaneely. Mici MacGabhann was the author of Rotha Mor an tSaoil, a book tha...

Donegal Castle is located in Donegal town in County Donegal in the Northwest of Ireland. The Castle is situated in the centre of the town on a rock outcrop overlooking the River Eask. It was built by one of the O'Donnell chieftains in the 15th century.
Donegal Castle was the residence of the O'Donnell Family, who were originally loyal subjects of Queen Elizabeth I. This changed when the last of the family "Red" Hugh O'Donnell, with his friend, Hugh O'Neill rebelled and fought a bloody n...

Here within a late 19th century setting in a rugged and remote mountain valley, Henry Mc Ilhenny from Philadelphia created one of the most celebrated gardens in Ireland.
Woodland gardens and pleasure grounds, an Italian terrace with antique sculpture and terracotta pots, all these different themes have been skillfully interwoven against the wild and beautiful Donegal landscape.
Glenveagh National Park Visitor Centre, which is located at the end of Lough Veagh near the edge of...