Raphoe
Raphoe ( ræfoʊ; Irish: Rath Bhoth ) is a small town in County Donegal in the north of Ireland.
The place
Raphoe is located in the midst of an agricultural region in the far east of the county of Donegal, about 10 km from the border with Northern Ireland ( Tyrone / near Derry ) and 3 km west of the N14 national road from Lifford to Letterkenny. Its population was determined in Census 2006 1065 people. Classroom heard the place to Donegal North East.
Raphoe is eponymous for both the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe and for the Anglican Diocese of Derry and Raphoe, but no longer the seat of the bishop.
With the Beltany Stone Circle, just south of Raphoe the largest of the stone circles in Ulster. With its estimated age of 4000 years, he points to the long settlement history of the region; n 550 Z. was here a monastery founded by Columban of Iona. Further developed the monastic settlement by his cousin Adomnan of Iona was (Anglicised: Saint Eunan ), after which the monastery was built on the grounds of St. Eunan 's Cathedral, the Church of Ireland is named in place. The present appearance Raphoes with the Diamond as the center goes, as in other cities in the region on the Ulster Plantation at the beginning of the 17th century back.
On the rail transport in Ireland Raphoe is no longer connected, since February 1959.
Personalities
- Chloe Magee (* 1988), badminton player