page_title: County Donegal
section_title: Irish language
hierarchical_section_title: County Donegal / Irish language
caption_attribution_description: English: Bunbeg - R258 As seen travelling a bit NW on R258. We made a right turn at the intersection, with R257 just ahead, to drive to Derrybeg (Doiri Beaga in Gaelic) via R257.
context_page_description: County Donegal is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconnell, after the historic territory of the same name, on which it was based. Donegal County Council is the local council and Lifford the county town.
  The population was 159,192 at the 2016 census.
context_section_description: The Donegal Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking area) is the second-largest in Ireland. The version of the Irish language spoken in County Donegal is Ulster Irish.
  Of the Gaeltacht population of 24,744 (16% of the county's total population), 17,132 say they can speak Irish. There are three Irish-speaking parishes: Gweedore, The Rosses and Cloughaneely. Other Irish-speaking areas include Gaeltacht an Láir: Glencolmcille, Fintown, Fanad and Rosguill, the islands of Arranmore, Tory Island and Inishbofin. Gweedore is the largest Irish-speaking parish, with over 5,000 inhabitants. All schools in the region use Irish as the language of instruction. One of the constituent colleges of NUI Galway, Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge, is based in Gweedore.
caption: Road signs in Irish in the Gweedore Gaeltacht
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