Laghy An Lathaigh | |
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  Laghy Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates:54°37′00″N8°05′15″W / 54.616667°N 8.087461°W /54.616667; -8.087461 | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
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| • Dáil constituency | Donegal |
| Population | 176 |
| Area code | +353 74 |
| Irish Grid Reference | G939748 |
Laghy[2] orLaghey (LAH-hee;Irish:An Lathaigh)[2] is a village andtownland inCounty Donegal,Ireland, betweenBallintra andDonegal Town. It is one of three villages that make up the parish ofDrumholm, formerly acivil andChurch of Ireland parish, now only used as a division of theRoman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe. The village has a quarry, a supermarket, garden centre, filling station, two public houses, a church with a graveyard, anOrange hall, a recycling centre, aDonegal County Council yard and salt depot, and a national school (St Eunan's NS).Rossnowlagh andMurvagh beaches are nearby. Murvagh is also the home to Donegal Golf Club.
Landmarks in the village include the Seven Arches Bridge at the bottom of the main street, and a signpost within the village that says Laghey is 1 km away.[citation needed]
Laghey railway station opened on 1 September 1905, was shut for goods traffic on 15 December 1947 and shut altogether on 1 January 1960.[3] The station was part of theCounty Donegal Railways Joint Committee network.
Laghey is served byBus Éireann route 480.[4]
St Eunan'sNational School (Irish:Scoil Náisiúnta Naomh Adhamhnáin) is the only school remaining in the village. It is a Catholic primary school, one of two in the parish of Drumholm, under the patronage of theBishop of Raphoe, and is named afterSaint Eunan, one of the two patron saints of the diocese. The school was built in the first half of the twentieth century and is in the design of many others built across the country at this time.
The original school had two class rooms, while an extension, which opened in 1992, added a further two to the west end of the existing building. The school is directly adjacent to the mainN15Sligo toLetterkenny road, which also cuts the school off from the main part of the village. Because of this, when the village was being by-passed for the upgrading of the route, a tunnel had to be constructed to allow those living to the east of the road in the main part of the village to access the school safely.[5]
Secondary education is provided by theAbbey Vocational School in Donegal Town, while a small number attend Colaiste Cholmcille inBallyshannon.
The localGaelic Athletic Association club is calledNaomh Bríd (the club also includes Ballintra). The localsoccer club is called Copany Rovers F.C. (also including Ballintra).[citation needed]
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