Ailt an Chorráin
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' or (English name: Burtonport') is a fishing village about northwest of Dungloe in The Rosses district of County Donegal, Ireland. The main employers in the village were the Burtonport Fishermen's Co-op and the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM; Irish Sea Fisheries Board) ice plant; but these have both since closed and their former premises were demolished in 2021 as part of a seafront environment upgrade scheme.
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- Settlement.other_name
- Burtonport
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
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- Ireland
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- none
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- Location in Ireland
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- Country
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- Ireland
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- Province
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- Ulster
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- County
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- County Donegal
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- Barony
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- Kilmacrenan
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- Dáil Éireann
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- Donegal
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- Metric
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- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Gaeltacht
- Official name
- Ailt an Chorráin
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Donegal
- Population
- 270
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Ailtanchorrain.JPG
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- Burtonport
- Irish Grid Reference
- B717154
- native label
- Ailt an Chorráin
- historic county
- County Donegal
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' or (English name: Burtonport') is a fishing village about northwest of Dungloe in The Rosses district of County Donegal, Ireland. The main employers in the village were the Burtonport Fishermen's Co-op and the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM; Irish Sea Fisheries Board) ice plant; but these have both since closed and their former premises were demolished in 2021 as part of a seafront environment upgrade scheme.
==History== Burtonport was developed by Marquess of Conyngham as a rival to another planned village on Rutland Island.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ailt an Chorráin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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