Ranafast
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Rann na Feirste
Ranafast / Rinnafarset | |
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Village | |
 A view of Ranafast | |
  Rann na Feirste Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 55°02′04″N 8°18′22″W / 55.034569°N 8.306013°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Government | |
| • Dáil Éireann | Donegal |
| Population | 350 |
| Irish Grid Reference | B847228 |
| Rann na Feirste is the only official name. The anglicized spellings Rannafast and Rinnafarset have no official status. | |
Ranafast or Rinnafarset (officially only known by its Irish name Rann na Feirste Irish pronunciation: [ɾˠan̪ˠ nˠə ˈfˠaɾˠʃ.tʲə])[2][3] is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Rosses region of northwest County Donegal, Ireland.
Name
Ranafast, or sometimes Rannafast or Rinnafarset, is the anglicised version of the area’s original and official name Rann na Feirste.
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 83.1% of the population spoke Irish daily.[1]
Arts and culture
The writers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seosamh Mac Grianna were born in Ranafast.[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b "Sapmap Area: Settlements Rann Na Feirste". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ Placenames Database of Ireland
- ^ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004. The townland's name is also sometimes spelt in Irish as Rinn na Feirste.
