Qualla: Fanad Peninsula https://qualla.com/fanad-peninsula en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Fanad Peninsula https://qualla.com/fanad-peninsula Fanad Peninsula: Introduction https://qualla.com/fanad-peninsula/ In 1811, the Royal Navy frigate Saldanha sank in a storm off the entrance to Lough Swilly. There was, by tradition, exactly one survivor: the ship's parrot. Whether this is precisely true or merely the kind of detail that adheres to a real disaster is left to local memory. What is certainly true is that the wreck prompted the Admiralty to build a lighthouse at Fanad Head, completed in 1818, that still stands at the very tip of one of Ireland's most underrated peninsulas. Fanad in Irish means sloping ground. The peninsula stretches twenty-five kilometres from Ramelton in the south to that storm-built lighthouse in the north, with Lough Swilly on one side and Mulroy Bay on the other.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/fanad-peninsula-wk/gcfd-fanad-peninsula-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Fanad Peninsula: Settlements Strung Along Two Coasts https://qualla.com/fanad-peninsula/ Fanad has no town to speak of, only villages strung along its two coasts. Coming up from Letterkenny on the eastern shore you pass Ramelton with its old quayside warehouses, Rathmullen where the Earls of Tyrone and Tyrconnell departed Ireland forever in 1607, Clondalon, Anny, and...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/fanad-peninsula-wk/gcfd-fanad-peninsula-the-lighthouse-and-the-arch.mp3 0:06 3 full Fanad Peninsula: Killydonnell and the Soldiers of Napoleon https://qualla.com/fanad-peninsula/ On the Lough Swilly shore stands the ivy-wreathed ruin of Killydonnell Friary, founded in 1471 for the Franciscans and suppressed in 1603 during the Tudor conquest of Donegal. The graveyard kept being used long after the friars left. Further north, the line of artillery batteries...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/f/d/fanad-peninsula-wk/gcfd-fanad-peninsula-killydonnell-and-the-soldiers-of-napoleon.mp3 0:06 4 full Fanad Peninsula: Three Links Courses and the Wild Atlantic Way https://qualla.com/fanad-peninsula/ Portsalon Golf Club is a links course at the north end of Portsalon beach, six thousand one hundred and seventy-two yards off the white tees, par seventy-two. Otway, a nine-hole course near the junction of R247 and R268, is older and quieter. South across Sheephaven Bay, the Rosa...

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