Gaoth Dobhair

The name Gaoth Dobhair derives from the ancient inlet at the mouth of what was once called the river Dobhar (now Abhainn Chroithlí or the Gweedore River), reflecting the place's geographical significance as a sea estuary. The area remained sparsely populated until the seventeenth-century Plantation of Ulster brought demographic change. Irish families driven from more fertile lands in the Laggan...