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Na Dúnaibh
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Downings or Downies () is a Gaeltacht village and townland on the Rosguill peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland. The village is on the shores of Sheephaven Bay on the north coast of Ireland.
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- Instance of
- Gaeltacht
- Official name
- Na Dúnaibh
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Donegal
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
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- Downings
- Irish Grid Reference
- B847228
- historic county
- County Donegal
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- Na Dúnaibh
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Downings or Downies () is a Gaeltacht village and townland on the Rosguill peninsula in County Donegal, Ireland. The village is on the shores of Sheephaven Bay on the north coast of Ireland.
==Name== As the village is in a Gaeltacht district, its official name is , its name in the Irish language. The name probably means 'the forts', reflecting the existence of several hill forts in the area. The full original Irish name seems to have been . The name may also be a hibernicisation of the English name, to describe the sandy dunes connecting the peninsula to the County Donegal mainland.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Na Dúnaibh” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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