{"id":5801,"date":"2015-01-11T16:52:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-11T16:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/?p=5801"},"modified":"2017-05-06T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T22:56:01","slug":"mamore-gap-inishowen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/mamore-gap-inishowen\/","title":{"rendered":"Mamore Gap Inishowen"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mamore Gap Inishowen &#8211; an area of outstanding beauty and is one of the most scenic parts of Donegal. It can be found on the western fringes of the Inishowen Peninsula in the North of the county.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6472,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mamore-gap-inishowen.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6472\"><img class=\"alignnone wp-image-6472\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mamore-gap-inishowen-600x400.jpg\" alt=\"Mamore Gap Inishowen\" width=\"1183\" height=\"69\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>Mamore Gap is an area of outstanding beauty in one of the most scenic parts of Donegal. It can be found on the Inishowen Peninsula in the North of the county.<\/p><p>The descent from Mamore Gap provides panoramic views of hills on one side and the Atlantic Ocean on the other. For the more adventurous minded there are paths in the gap which lead onto breath-taking hill walks along the ridges of the Urris Hills, though beware it is a difficult walk and advice should be sought before going up there.<\/p><p><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-large fasc-type-flat fasc-ico-before dashicons-admin-links\" style=\"background-color: #33809e; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/towns\/holiday-cottage-clonmany.php\" data-fasc-style=\"background-color:#33809e;color:#ffffff;\">Holiday Homes in Clonmany<\/a><\/p><p>St Eigne\u2019s Well can be found at the top of the gap, it is a holy well which people from all over the world travel to see. For centuries people have been making pilgrimages to Donegal specifically for St Eigne\u2019s Well.<\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mamore-inishowen-holy-well.jpg\"><img class=\"wp-image-6475 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/mamore-inishowen-holy-well.jpg\" alt=\"Holy well at gap of mamore Inishowen\" width=\"1198\" height=\"671\" \/><\/a><\/p><p>The stone at the well states that St. Eigne was one of the C\u00e9ile D\u00e9, they were most likely Druids who saw the coming of The Christ Consciousness and are accredited as having preached in both Ireland and Scotland long before the first missionaries.<\/p><p>[mappress mapid=\"194\"]<\/p><p>A reference to the C\u00e9ile D\u00e9 can be found in the Annals of the Four Masters which is dated as far back as 806AD. It was written by four monks in <a title=\"Donegal Town\" href=\"http:\/\/www.searchdonegal.com\/donegal-town-donegal\/\">Donegal Town<\/a>, an obelisk commemorating them lays in Donegal town centre.<\/p><p>[SlideDeck2 id=6477]<\/p><p>The surrounding area is called Desertegney, which takes its name from the saint.<\/p><p>Beside the well there is a grotto to Mary the Mother of God. It is the centre point of an annual mass held here on the 15th August which commemorates pagan times when locals were forced to practice their religion in secrecy due to fear of persecution from the authorities.<\/p><p><a class=\"fasc-button fasc-size-large fasc-type-flat fasc-ico-before dashicons-admin-links\" style=\"background-color: #33809e; color: #ffffff;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/inishowen-holiday-homes.htm\" data-fasc-style=\"background-color:#33809e;color:#ffffff;\">Holiday Homes in Inishowen<\/a><\/p><p>The Mamore Gap was once the only gateway between <a title=\"Buncrana Inishowen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.searchdonegal.com\/buncrana-donegal\/\">Buncrana<\/a> and Urris. Its steep road is sheltered 700 feet on either side by the hill of Mamore on the east and on the west the hill of Craogh Carragh. Raghtin More can be found to the North East standing at a towering 1657 feet.<\/p><p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N8gvkDT7WWU<\/p><p>These hills are just some of the many glacier formations which can be found in this area, along with many other local imprints of the Ice Age which date back to 15000BC.<\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[911,21,1132],"tags":[1081],"class_list":["post-5801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-info","category-clonmany","category-popular-posts","tag-inishowen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mamore Gap Inishowen<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mamore Gap Inishowen - an area of outstanding beauty and is one of the most scenic parts of Donegal. 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