Ranafast

Ranafast or Rinnafarset, officially only known by its Irish name Rann na Feirste (IPA: [ˌɾˠaːn̪ˠ n̪ˠə ˈfʲɛɾˠʃtʲə]),[2][3] is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Rosses district in the west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.

Ranafast, or sometimes Rannafast or Rinnafarset, is the anglicised version of the area's original and official name Rann na Feirste.

[5][6] The storyteller and writer, Mici (Sheáin Néill) Ó Baoill, was from Ranafast.

[7][8] There is a primary gaelcoil, Scoil Naisiunta Olibhear Pluinceid (Oliver Plunkett National School), located in the village.

[10][11] A number of notable people have attended the college including T. K. Whitaker, Éamon de Valera, Bernadette McAliskey, Phil Coulter, and Cardinal Tomás O Fiaich.