Bundoran
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Bundoran Bun Dobhráin
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Bundoran seafront
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| Motto: Fáilte, Sláinte, Beoite "welcome, health, lively" |
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 Bundoran
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| Coordinates: 54°28′31″N 8°17′02″W / 54.4754°N 8.2838°WCoordinates: 54°28′31″N 8°17′02″W / 54.4754°N 8.2838°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Dáil Éireann | Donegal South-West |
| EU Parliament | North–West |
| Elevation | 12 m (39 ft) |
| Population (2011) | |
| • Total | 2,140 |
| Time zone | WET (UTC0) |
| • Summer (DST) | IST (UTC+1) |
| Irish Grid Reference | G8761 |
| Dialing code | 071 (within Ireland) +353 71 (International) |
| Website | www |
Bundoran (Irish: Bun Dobhráin) is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. The town is located on the N15 road near Ballyshannon, and is the most southerly town in Donegal. The town is a popular seaside resort, and tourism has been at the heart of the local economy since 1777. Bundoran is a world-renowned surfing area and was listed by National Geographic magazine in 2012 as one of the World's Top 20 Surf Towns.
Bundoran, or as it is known in Irish Bun Dobhráin (which means the foot of the little water), was, up until over a century ago, two separate villages. Bundoran was the village west of the bridge over the River Bradoge. This area is now called the West End. East of the bridge, about 2 kilometres (1 mile) away, was the village of Single Street. In between these two separate communities was the townland of Drumacrin. The area of Drumcacrin is now part of what is today's town centre. Single Street was where most of the local population lived. It was only after completion of the Enniskillen and Bundoran Railway in 1868, which opened a terminus that it called Bundoran, that the two distinct communities developed and merged to what are today called Bundoran.
The first official record of Bundoran is in a deposition by Hugh Gaskein on 16 May 1653. He was a witness to events during the 1641 Rebellion when he was an apprentice butcher in Sligo. In 1689 a skirmish was fought near Bundoran between a Jacobite force under Sir Connell Ferrall and the retreating Protestant garrison of Sligo.
William Cole, Viscount Enniskillen, built Bundoran Lodge, his summer home, in 1777. This building still stands on Bayview Avenue and is now called Homefield House. The Viscount seems to have started a trend amongst his contemporaries as more of them discovered Bundoran and visited it to enjoy the seaside and what were believed to be its health benefits.
The rights of the people to have access to the seashore were blocked by a local landlord but the locals found a champion in the parish priest Canon Kelaghan who fought through the courts in 1870 to ensure that the pathways and roads to the beach remained open to the public. Canon Kelaghan also had the present Catholic church built in 1859.
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