Croithlí or Croichshlí (anglicised as Crolly)[2] is a village in the Gaeltacht parishes and traditional districts of Gweedore (Gaoth Dobhair) and The Rosses (Na Rossan) in the west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.

[7] The village sits at the base of several large hills, among them Án Grógan Mór and Cnoc na bhFaircheach.

The Crolly Stone (known in Irish as Cloch Mhór Léim An tSionnaigh, or the Large Rock Of The Foxes Leap), an erratic left during the Ice Age, is reputed to be the largest boulder in Ireland.

As the village is located on the border of The Rosses and Gaoth Dobhair, both districts within the West Donegal Gaeltacht, the Irish language is to be heard and most residents are bilingual.

[citation needed] The early dolls were handmade with a soft-filled body, a strong head and arms and legs.

In some versions they are sleeping by the Crolly Waterfall and he misses, in others they are on top of Errigal and the Stone bounces off the tip of the mountain.

One story about the Stone suggests that when the most beautiful (or sometimes reddest) girl in Ireland passes under its shadow, it will topple.

[13] There is also a monument erected beside Leo's Tavern in Meenaleck for part-time resident and Provisional IRA Volunteer Caoimhín Mac Brádaigh, who was killed during the Milltown cemetery attack by loyalist Michael Stone on the 1988 Gibraltar Three funeral at Milltown cemetery in West Belfast.