Burtonport (Ailt an Chorráin in Irish) is a fishing village situated on the northwest coast of Ireland, some 7 km beyond Dungloe in County Donegal. Burton is in the official Gaeltacht. Fishing is the activity of hunting for fish. ... A village is a human settlement commonly found in rural areas. ... Dungloe (An Clochán Liath in Irish) is a town in County Donegal, Republic of Ireland, and is the main town in The Rosses. ... For other uses, see Donegal (disambiguation) Donegal (Irish: Dún na nGall) is a county in the northwest of Ireland. ... Gaeltacht is an Irish word for an Irish-speaking region. ...

The main employers in the village are the Burtonport Fishermen's Co-op and the Bord Iascaigh Mhara (Irish Sea Fisheries Board) ice plant. As the mainland port for the Arranmore car ferry service, Burtonport receives a lot of passing tourist traffic. Stay at www.donegal-holidayhome.com This article is about the geomorphological/geopolitical term; MAINLAND is also a cheese brand owned by Fonterra, a New Zealand dairy company. ... Seaport, a painting by Claude Lorrain, 1638 A port is a facility at the edge of an ocean, river, or lake for receiving ships and transferring cargo and persons to them. ... View of Donegal mainland from Arranmore Arranmore Island (Árainn Mhór in Irish) is the largest inhabited island in County Donegal, and the second largest in all of Ireland, with a population of around 550. ... The Pride of Burgundy, a P&O Ferries car ferry on the Dover-Calais route A ferry is a boat or a ship carrying passengers, and sometimes their vehicles, on short-distance, scheduled services. ...

See also: List of towns in the Republic of Ireland