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Fahan
Sign in to saveFahan (; pronounced 'Fawn'. ) is a district of Inishowen in the north of County Donegal, Ireland, located south of Buncrana. In Irish, Fahan is named after its patron saint, Saint Mura, first abbot of Fahan, an early Christian monastery.
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- Ulster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 588
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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- Fahan
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- Village
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- Ireland
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- left
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- Location in Ireland
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- Ireland
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- Province
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- Ulster
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- County
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- County Donegal
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- 2022
- Settlement.population_total
- 589
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- WET
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- Fahan, County Donegal
- Irish Grid Reference
- C333269
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- Fathain
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Fahan (; pronounced 'Fawn'. ) is a district of Inishowen in the north of County Donegal, Ireland, located south of Buncrana. In Irish, Fahan is named after its patron saint, Saint Mura, first abbot of Fahan, an early Christian monastery.
==History== The walled graveyard, located west of the rectory, contains the grave of pioneering nurse Agnes Jones, the ruins of a 6th-century monastery featuring a 7th-century cross-slab of St. Mura, and the ruins of a 16th-century monastery and 17th-century church together with a number of grave slabs bearing coats of arms. The monastery and village were sacked by Vikings in the 10th and 13th centuries. Medieval mill wheels are built into both the graveyard wall and the wall on the opposite side of the road.
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