Bunbeg

Bunbeg with Errigal in the background and the wrecked Cara Na Mara (Friend of the Sea) on the tidal sandbanks of Magheraclogher Strand. Better known locally as Bád Eddie (Eddie's Boat), it ran ashore due to rough seas in the early 1970s.

An Bun Beag (anglicised as Bunbeg), meaning "the small river mouth",[1] is a small Gaeltacht village and townland in County Donegal, Ireland. It is officially the smallest townland in Gaoth Dobhair (Gweedore), but today the name Bunbeg is used to describe a large region of the parish. It is situated between Derrybeg and the townland of Dore and is home to many of Gweedore's amenities and businesses. The Clady River (Irish: An Chláidigh) flows into the Crolly River (also known as the Gweedore River) beside Bunbeg Quay, on the south-western outskirts of Bunbeg.[2]

There is a ferry service from Bunbeg to nearby Tory Island.[3]

  1. ^ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004
  2. ^ Discovery Series Sheet 1 (Fourth Edition). Ordnance Survey of Ireland (O.S.I.), Dublin, 2012.
  3. ^ "Tory island ferry". Archived from the original on 10 February 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2015.