Burtonport

Burtonport (Ailt an Chorráin in Irish) is a fishing village situated on the northwest coast of Ireland, some 7 km beyond Dungloe in County Donegal. Burtonport is in the official Gaeltacht.

The main employers in the village are the Burtonport Fishermen's Co-op and the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) ice plant. A plaque there commemorates the brief landing of a French military force led by James Napper Tandy in a failed attempt to assist rebels during the 1798 rebellion on September 16, 1798. As the mainland port for the Arranmore car ferry service, Burtonport receives a lot of passing tourist traffic.

Burtonport had a railway service from Letterkenny between 1903 and 1940 provided by the Letterkenny & Burtonport Extension Railway (L&BER), a company jointly owned by the State and the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway (L&LSR).

Politician Pat "the Cope" Gallagher is from the town.

See also

*List of towns in the Republic of Ireland
*Ulster Irish