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</font></p><p style='margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 3;'><b><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'><font color='#000000'>Donegal Gaeltacht Facts</font></span></b></p><p><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font></p><ul><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font><li><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'>County Donegal has a population of 161,137
(Census 2011). Donegal saw a population growth of 9.4 per cent in the
2006-2011 period. Over 35 per cent of the population is under
25-years-old;</span></li><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
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</font><li><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'> The Donegal Gaeltacht is located mainly in the
west of the county along the coast and is Irelands second largest
Gaeltacht;</span></li><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font><li><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'>The Donegal Gaeltacht has a population of
24,744 (Census 2011) and represents 24.5 per cent of the total Gaeltacht
population;</span></li><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font><li><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'>The Donegal Gaeltacht encompasses a
geographical area of 1,502km2. This represents 26 per cent of total
Gaeltacht land area;</span></li><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font><li><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'>The three parishes of Na Rosa, Gaoth Dobhair
and Cloich Cheann Fhaola constitute the main centre of population of the
Donegal Gaeltacht and with a population of just over 16,000, is considered
to be the most rurally populated area in Europe;</span></li><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font><li><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'>In 2011, 1,876 people employed in a full time
capacity in Údarás na Gaeltachta client companies in the Donegal
Gaeltacht;</span></li><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font><li><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'>Dún na nGall, the Irish for Donegal, means
‘fort of the foreigner’, so called for having repealed the numerous viking
raids on the county in the 8th and 9th centuries.</span></li></ul><p style='margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;'></p><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-IE;'><p style='margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;'><font color='#000000' face='Times New Roman' size='3'>
</font></p><p style='margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;'><span style='line-height: 115%; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;'><font color='#000000'>Údarás na Gaeltachta
is the regional authority responsible for the </font><a href='http://www.udaras.ie/en/faoin-udaras/ar-rol#economic'><font color='#0000ff'>economic</font></a><font color='#000000'>, </font><a href='http://www.udaras.ie/en/faoin-udaras/ar-rol#social'><font color='#0000ff'>social</font></a><font color='#000000'> and </font><a href='http://www.udaras.ie/en/faoin-udaras/ar-rol#cultural'><font color='#0000ff'>cultural</font></a><font color='#000000'>
development of the Gaeltacht. The overall objective of Údarás na Gaeltachta is
to ensure that Irish remains the main communal language of the Gaeltacht and is
passed on to future generations.</font></span></p></span><p style='margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: normal; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list 36.0pt;'>Find out more on the Udaras Na Gaeltacht <a href='http://www.udaras.ie/en/an-ghaeilge-an-ghaeltacht/an-ghaeltacht/dun-na-ngall/' target='_blank'>website</a></p>
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Gaeltacht Areas in County Donegal. Donegal has the second largest Gaeltacht region in Ireland.
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