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Extract from the Dunfanaghy Travel Guides:
The small resort of
DUNFANAGHY
, seven miles east of Falcarragh, is the gateway to the
Horn Head Peninsula
. It's an aristocratically self-conscious plantation town, whose strongly Presbyterian atmosphere contrasts vividly with settlements to the west or south. On the western outskirts of town is the impressive
Workhouse
(March-Oct Mon-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat & Sun noon-5pm; 2.50/?3.16), sympathetically restored as a local history and community centre. It was originally built in 1845 on the eve of the Great Famine and at first had only five inmates, but by 1847, as the Famine intensified, over six hund... read the whole Dunfanaghy Travel Guides...
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