Donegal, (Irish: Contae Dhún na nGall), the most northerly county in Ireland, extends along much of the north-west coast.

It is one of three counties in the province of Ulster that did not become part of Northern Ireland. The name comes from the Irish, meaning "the fort of the foreigners" (a reference to the Vikings) and was named after the former administrative centre of Donegal Town. When first created, it was sometimes referred to as County Tyrconnel (Irish: Tír Chonaill), after the Tyrconnel earldom it succeeded.

It is a region famous for its scenery - with a beautiful, much indented coast, great areas of mountains, deep glens and many lakes. All kinds of rock, form a cave-riddled limestone to complicated mixtures of igneous rocks, make up the foundations of the county; and it is this that gives it so much variety of form and colour to the scenery. Despite Lifford being the county town, the largest town is Letterkenny.

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