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Ranafast
Gaeltacht village in County Donegal, Ireland From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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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 66.6% of the population spoke Irish daily outside the education system.[1][4]
Arts and culture
The writers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seosamh Mac Grianna were born in Ranafast.[5][6]
The storyteller and writer, Mici (Sheáin Néill) Ó Baoill, was from Ranafast.[7][8]
Education
There is a primary gaelcoil, Scoil Naisiunta Olibhear Pluinceid (Oliver Plunkett National School), located in the village.[9]
Coláiste Bhríde is an Irish-language Gaeltacht College established in 1926.[10][11] 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.[11]
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