Ranafast

Ranafast
Irish: Rann na Feirste
Rinnafarset
Village
A view of Ranafast
A view of Ranafast
Ranafast is located in County Donegal
Ranafast
Ranafast
Location in County Donegal
Ranafast is located in Ireland
Ranafast
Ranafast
Ranafast (Ireland)
Coordinates: 55°02′04″N 8°18′22″W / 55.034569°N 8.306013°W / 55.034569; -8.306013
CountryIreland
ProvinceUlster
CountyCounty Donegal
BaronyBoylagh
Government
 • Dáil constituencyDonegal
Population
[1]
 • Total
350
Irish Grid ReferenceB847228
Rann na Feirste is the only official name. The anglicised spellings Rannafast and Rinnafarset have no official status.

Ranafast or Rinnafarset, officially only known by its Irish name Rann na Feirste (IPA: [ˌɾˠaːn̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈfʲɛɾˠʃtʲə]),[2][3] is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Rosses district in the west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.[4][5]

Name

Ranafast,[4] or sometimes Rannafast[6] or Rinnafarset,[2] is the anglicised version of the area's original and official name Rann na Feirste.[2][3]

Language

Ranafast is a Gaeltacht area, therefore the Irish language is the predominantly spoken language. According to the 2016 census 90.4% of the population of Ranafast could speak Irish and 66.6% of the population spoke Irish daily outside the education system.[1][7]

Arts and culture

The writers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seosamh Mac Grianna were born in Ranafast.[8][9]

The storyteller and writer, Mici (Sheáin Néill) Ó Baoill, was from Ranafast.[10][11]

Education

There is a primary gaelcoil, Scoil Naisiunta Olibhear Pluinceid (Oliver Plunkett National School), located in the village.[12]

Coláiste Bhríde is an Irish-language Gaeltacht College that was established in the village by Fr Lorcán Ó Muireadhaigh in August 1926.[13][14][15] The college was formerly based in Omeath, County Louth from 1912-1926.[14][15] A number of notable people have attended the college including T. K. Whitaker, Éamon de Valera, Bernadette McAliskey, Phil Coulter, and Cardinal Tomás O Fiaich.[13][16]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Sapmap Area: Settlements Rann Na Feirste". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Archived from the original on 17 June 2020. Retrieved 13 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b c "Rann na Feirste / Rinnafarset". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  3. ^ a b An tOrdú Logainmneacha (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) 2004, Bailte fearainn (Townlands) (S.I. No. 872 of 2004). Signed on 21 December 2004 by Éamon Ó Cuív. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 11 December 2025.
  4. ^ a b Sharkey, Kevin (13 August 2015). "Ranafast Gaeltacht in Donegal fights Irish language decline". BBC News. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  5. ^ "Here's what a summer in the Donegal Gaeltacht looked like 60 years ago". IrishCentral. 6 January 2024. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  6. ^ "Documentary to be broadcast on Donegal's historic Rannafast Irish college". Donegal Live. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  7. ^ "Profile 10 Education, Skills and the Irish Language". Central Statistics Office. Census of Population 2016. 18 May 2023. Table 5.1 Towns with the highest number of daily Irish speakers, 2016. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Documentary about Irish language writer Séamus Ó Grianna to air on BBC Two NI". Northern Ireland Screen. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  9. ^ McCallig, Elaine (1 November 2020). "Famous Ranafast writer's book translated into English for the first time". Donegal Daily. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Siúlach Scéalach - Oireachtas Gaeilge 1971". Raidió na Gaeltachta (in Irish). 2 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2024 – via RTÉ.
  11. ^ Hughes, Art J. (2001). "Advancing the language: Irish in the Twenty-First Century". New Hibernia Review. 5 (1). Center for Irish studies at the University of St. Thomas: 114. doi:10.1353/nhr.2001.0019. JSTOR 20557690.
  12. ^ "S N OLIBHEAR PLUINCEID". Government of Ireland. Department of Education and Youth. 9 July 2025 [7 July 2021]. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  13. ^ a b "Coláiste Bhríde, Rann na Feirste". RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta (in Irish). 30 April 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2024 – via RTÉ.
  14. ^ a b Quinn, James (December 2013). "Murray, Laurence Patrick, ('Larry'), (Ó Muireadhaigh, Lorcán)". Dictionary of Irish Biography. Royal Irish Academy. doi:10.3318/dib.009589.v1. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  15. ^ a b "Documentary to be broadcast on Donegal's historic Rannafast Irish college". Donegal Live. 29 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
  16. ^ "Clár speisialta faoi Choláiste Bhríde, Rann na Feirste, le craoladh ar RTÉ RnaG" [A special programme about Coláiste Bhríde, Rann na Feirste, to be broadcast on RTÉ RnaG]. Scéal.ie [ga] (in Irish). Conradh na Gaeilge. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 11 December 2025.
allikas: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rann_na_Feirste