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Extract from the Burtonport Travel Guides:
Passing the smoking funnels of a kelp factory, the coastal route heads off in the direction of
BURTONPORT
(signposted
Ailt an Chorrin
, "curved ravine"), half-a-mile off the main road and the embarkation point for
Arranmore Island
and, if you can find someone to take you out, for other smaller islands. In the late eighteenth century, the English attempted to establish
Rutland Island
as a major trading centre and, consequently, this area became the first English-speaking district in the whole of Donegal. During the 1798 rebellion James Napper Tandy landed on the island wi...
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