Loughanure

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Loughanure
Irish: Loch an Iúir
County Donegal
Loch an Iuir - geograph.org.uk - 501810.jpg
Loughanure
Location
Grid reference: B810169
Location: 55°0’4"N, 8°16’12"W
Data
Population: 313  (2016)
Local Government
Dáil
constituency:
Donegal
Loch an Iúir or "Lake of the Yew Tree", with Oilean Iúir clearly visible

Loughanure is a village in the north-west of County Donegal, in the Rosses area on the county's western coast. Its name is from the Irish language in which it is known as Loch an Iúir, which means 'Lake of the yew'.[1]

The village is found halfway between Gweedore and Dungloe, on the N56 road. This has been decreed a Gaeltacht area: according to the 2016 census, 37% of the population spoke Irish on a daily basis outside the education system.[2]

Niall Ó Dónaill was born here in 1908. An Irish-speaker, amongst other works he compiled an Irish-language dictionary called 'Fhoclóir Irish/Béarla' published in 1977, which is consulted by language students worldwide as the defintiive authority on Irish Gaelic.

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