Letterkenny

Letterkenny nicknamed the Cathedral Town is the largest and maximum populous metropolis in County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. It lies on the River Swilly in East Donegal and has a population of 19,274. It is the 36th biggest settlement in all of Ireland via population and hovers round being the thirteenth or 14th biggest settlement by population in all of Ulster. Along with the close by metropolis of Derry, Letterkenny is taken into consideration a regional monetary gateway for the North West of Ireland. Letterkenny acts as an city gateway to the Ulster Gaeltacht, similar to Galway's courting to the Connemara Gaeltacht.

The modern city of Letterkenny began as a marketplace town at the start of the 17th century, all through the Plantation of Ulster. It may additionally were set up at the website of an earlier Gaelic settlement. It was the first crossing point of the River Swilly. In the current beyond, Letterkenny turned into a in large part agricultural town, surrounded by means of good sized livestock and sheep grazing on what changed into then untilled hillside at a time while Conwal three km west of Letterkenny was the ecclesiastical and seaport centre.