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| | Dungloe, Ireland. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com |
 | | When the fair that was held at the fort moved in the eighteenth century to the village of An Clochán Liath which had grown up around the stepping-stones, the fort's name stuck, though Irish-speakers still refer to the town by its original name. |
 | | At the beginning of August, however, the Mary From Dungloe festival (www.maryfromdungloe.info), centred around a rather wholesome beauty pageant, provides a good pretext for general festivities, plenty of music and street events and almost certainly at least one concert featuring local singing legend Daniel O'Donnell. |
 | | Dungloe is also synonymous with the rejuvenating work of Paddy 'the Cope' Gallagher (1871–1966), who envisaged the salvation of these then poor communities through cooperative ventures, in particular by reducing their dependency on moneylenders. |
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