Donegal Town Guides

Overview: Donegal Town is quite simply the perfect place to base yourself for a very enjoyable, affordable and memorable holiday. Surrounded by the Bluestack mountains and at the mouth of Donegal Bay, it is an ideal location for the hillwalker, the angler, the heritage lover and the foodie.

With this bundled guide, we hope to help you locate with ease all of the great sights, sounds and tastes of the area. Make your trip just that little bit more special by locating the hidden gems, by hearing about its history and knowing what flora and fauna are around you. The bundle conveniently allows you to download seven guides in one click which are listed as follows: -

1. Donegal Town heritage guide.
2. Donegal Town food guide.
3. Donegal Town bank walk.
4. Lough Eske nature guide.
5. Slieve League coastal drive.
6. County Donegal guide.
7. County Donegal's greatest 'shrines'.

The various guides are designed to help you find out about and enjoy what we have on offer in the area from our long history to our flora and fauna and our great selection of food that has had Donegal Town likened to Kinsale in terms of its culinary excellence. Besides the factual, we give you plenty of the anecdotal about the area. From the sublime to the mildly ridiculous, you'll hear about the area's (albeit tenuous) connections about everyone from Napoleon to Fionn McCumhaill, the Beatles to Ferris Bueller, Dickens to the Duke of Wellington via deValera, Van the Man and of course the fighting prince of Donegal. All the best places of interest are mentioned and we're fairly confident you will complete the guides with enough facts to 'wing' your way through a pub quiz on local knowledge!

These guides are of course a mere supplement; the best way of really experiencing Donegal is to get out there and to meet its exceedingly helpful and friendly folk. As the song goes, 'you're a welcome as the flowers in May to dear old Donegal' and twee and all as that tune may now seem, the tenor of it holds true (unless you're Pat Spillane!). You'll get busier places, sunnier places and more cosmopolitan places, but Donegal plays to its strengths which were handed out by Mother Nature - epic scenery and friendly locals. Have a great time and if you like what you see and hear, spread a discerning word to your friends.

John Ward
navigatour- seek and enjoy™
Guided walks & drives apps
August 2011

Tips: As we recommend in every guide, bring rain gear, decent walking shoes, maybe even two pairs and a healthy curiosity for a place that will reward your nosiness. We've also designed a new app showing you the top places to visit in County Donegal as part of the Bundle. All material is offered subject to acceptance of the navigatour™ Licence Agreement: - http://www.navigatour.ie/Licence.html

PLEASE NOTE: If you are downloading, we recommend the use of the EveryTrail Pro app, which allows for offline map usage of the guide. Each guide needs to be downloaded separately on this Bundled Guide.