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.
Ranafast
Irish: Rann na Feirste Rinnafarset | |
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Village | |
 A view of Ranafast | |
  Ranafast 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 |
| Barony | Boylagh |
| Government | |
| • Dáil constituency | Donegal |
| Population | 350 |
| Irish Grid Reference | B847228 |
| Rann na Feirste is the only official name. The anglicised spellings Rannafast and Rinnafarset have no official status. | |
Name
editRanafast, or sometimes Rannafast or Rinnafarset, is the anglicised version of the area's original and official name Rann na Feirste.
Language
editRanafast 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
editThe 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
editThere 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]
References
edit- ^ a b "Sapmap Area: Settlements Rann Na Feirste". Census 2016. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 13 May 2020.
- ^ "Rann na Feirste / Rinnafarset". logainm.ie / Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
- ^ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004. The townland's name is also sometimes spelt in Irish as Rinn na Feirste.
- ^ "Irish Language and the Gaeltacht - CSO - Central Statistics Office". CSO. Retrieved 15 November 2020.
- ^ "Documentary about Irish language writer Séamus Ó Grianna to air on BBC Two NI". Northern Ireland Screen. 2 September 2021. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ McCallig, Elaine (1 November 2020). "Famous Ranafast writer's book translated into English for the first time". Donegal Daily. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ "Siúlach Scéalach - Oireachtas Gaeilge 1971". Raidió na Gaeltachta (in Irish). 2 October 2016. Retrieved 17 October 2024 – via RTÉ.ie.
- ^ Hughes, Art J. (2001). "Advancing the language: Irish in the Twenty-First Century". New Hibernia Review. 5 (1). Center for Irish studies at the University of St. Thomas: 114. doi:10.1353/nhr.2001.0019. JSTOR 20557690.
- ^ "S N OLIBHEAR PLUINCEID". gov.ie. Department of Education. 23 August 2024. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ "Coláiste Bhríde - Rann na Feirste". rnf.ie. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
- ^ a b "Coláiste Bhríde, Rann na Feirste". Raidió na Gaeltachta (in Irish). 30 April 2020. Retrieved 17 October 2024 – via RTÉ.ie.