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The County Arms is the official coat of arms of both County Donegal and Donegal County Council. The modern County Donegal was made a shire [ 10 ] by order of the English Crown in 1585. The English authorities at Dublin Castle formed the new county by amalgamating the old Kingdom of Tír Chonaill with the old Lordship of Inishowen .
Historic constituencies in County Donegal (1 C, 11 P) D. ... Pages in category "History of County Donegal" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.
Today there are Doherty families in many parts of Ireland, with primary concentration in their homeland of the Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal and the vicinity of Derry. The O’Dohertys are an important part of the Irish diaspora. To this end, the family continues through voluntary organisations, exploring family and Irish history and ...
Donegal (/ ˌ d ʌ n ɪ ˈ ɡ ɔː l, ˌ d ɒ n-, ˈ d ɒ n ɪ ɡ ɔː l / DUN-ig-AWL, DON-, DON-ig-awl; [2] Irish: Dún na nGall [ˈd̪ˠuːnˠ n̪ˠə ˈŋal̪ˠ], "fort of the foreigners") [3] is a town in County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Although Donegal gave its name to the county, now Lifford is the county town. [4]
County Donegal was a constituency represented in the Irish House of Commons until its abolition on 1 January 1801. The county received two seats at Westminster thereafter. History
The purpose of Donegal County Museum is to "collect, record, preserve, and display the material evidence and associated information of the History and Heritage of County Donegal". [7] In 2013, the then Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht , Jimmy Deenihan , said that the museum was among the "best in Ireland" at "dealing with the past ...
History of County Donegal (8 C, 23 P) M. Mass media in County Donegal (2 C, 18 P) P. People from County Donegal (5 C, 74 P) Politics of County Donegal (5 C, 5 P)
Donegal County Council (Irish: Comhairle Contae Dhún na nGall) is the authority responsible for local government in County Donegal, Ireland. As a county council , it is governed by the Local Government Act 2001 .