{"id":6450,"date":"2015-01-09T12:10:23","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T12:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2017-09-24T09:13:22","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T09:13:22","slug":"drumnatinny-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/drumnatinny-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Drumnatinny Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drumnatinny Beach is located along the shores of Ballyness Bay on the North West coast of Donegal approx 3km north of Falcarragh Town.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6453,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/drumnatinny-beach.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6453\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.donegalcottageholidays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/drumnatinny-beach-600x375.jpg\" alt=\"Drumnatinny Beach\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-6453\" \/><\/a>\r\n<strong>click to enlarge image<\/strong>\r\n\r\nDrumnatinny Beach is located on the North West coast of Donegal approx 3km north of Falcarragh Town. 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