Donegal

Donegal is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster. It is known as after the town of Donegal Irish: Dun na n Gall, that means fort of the foreigners in the south of the county. Donegal County Council is the nearby council and Lifford the county city. The population became 159,192 at the 2016 census. It has also been called County Tyrconnell, after the ancient territory of the equal call. At various instances in its history, it's been known as County Tirconaill, County Tirconnell or County Tyrconnell Irish: Tir Chonaill. The former changed into used as its legit call throughout 1922 to 1927.

This is in connection with each the old tuath of Tir Chonaill and the earldom that succeeded it. County Donegal become the house of the once mighty Clann Dalaigh, whose maximum famous department had been the Clann O Domhnaill, better recognized in English because the O'Donnell dynasty. Until round 1600, the O Donnells have been considered one of Ireland's richest and maximum effective native Irish ruling households. Within Ulster, simplest the Ui Neill regarded in English as the O'Neill Clan of modern County Tyrone changed into more effective.