Ranafast Irish:Rann na Feirste Rinnafarset | |
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Village | |
 A view of Ranafast | |
  Ranafast Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates:55°02′04″N8°18′22″W / 55.034569°N 8.306013°W /55.034569; -8.306013 | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Barony | Boylagh |
| Government | |
| • Dáil constituency | Donegal |
| Population | 350 |
| Irish Grid Reference | B847228 |
| Rann na Feirste is the only official name. The anglicised spellings Rannafast and Rinnafarset have no official status. | |
Ranafast orRinnafarset, officially only known by itsIrish nameRann na Feirste (IPA:[ˌɾˠaːn̪ˠn̪ˠəˈfʲɛɾˠʃtʲə]),[2][3] is aGaeltacht village andtownland inthe Rosses district in the west ofCounty Donegal inUlster, the northernprovince in Ireland.
Ranafast, or sometimes Rannafast or Rinnafarset, is the anglicised version of the area's original and official nameRann na Feirste.
Ranafast is aGaeltacht area, therefore theIrish language is the predominantly spoken language. According to the2016 census 90.4% of the population of Ranafast could speak Irish and 66.6% of the population spoke Irish daily outside the education system.[1][4]
The writersSéamus Ó Grianna andSeosamh Mac Grianna were born in Ranafast.[5][6]
The storyteller and writer, Mici (Sheáin Néill) Ó Baoill, was from Ranafast.[7][8]
There is a primarygaelcoil,Scoil Naisiunta Olibhear Pluinceid (Oliver Plunkett National School), located in the village.[9]
Coláiste Bhríde is an Irish-language Gaeltacht College established in 1926.[10][11] A number of notable people have attended the college includingT. K. Whitaker,Éamon de Valera,Bernadette McAliskey,Phil Coulter, andCardinal Tomás O Fiaich.[11]
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