Ranafast


Ranafast or Rinnafarset is a Gaeltacht village and townland in the Rosses region of northwest County Donegal, Ireland.

Name

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

Language

Ranafast is a Gaeltacht area, therefore the Irish language is the predominantly spoken language. According to the 2016 census 90.4% of the population of Ranafast could speak Irish and 83.1% of the population spoke Irish daily.

Arts and culture

The writers Séamus Ó Grianna and Seosamh Mac Grianna were born in Ranafast.