Gweebarra Bay (

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: ''Gaoth Beara'') is located on the west coast of

County Donegal County Donegal ( ; ga, Contae Dhún na nGall) is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county. It has also been known as County Tyrconn ...

, in

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. The mouth of the River Gweebarra and

Innishkeel Island Inishkeel () is a small tidal island and a townland off the coast of County Donegal, Ireland. The closest village on the mainland is Narin. Geography The island is located in Gweebarra Bay around 250 m from the coast. A sandy tidal bank ...

are here. The towns on the bay are Narin; Portnoo; and Cor Gweebarra Bay, Donegal - geograph

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Lucy Caldwell Lucy Caldwell (born 1981) is a Northern Irish playwright and novelist. She was the winner of the 2021 BBC National Short Story Award. Biography Born in Belfast in 1981 in what she later described as into one of the darkest and most turbulent y ...

's 2006 novel ''

Where They Were Missed ''Where They Were Missed'' is the debut novel from Northern Irish author Lucy Caldwell (though she had previously written plays). It was shortlisted for the inaugural Dylan Thomas Prize and the Waverton Good Read Award. It was named by ''The ...

'' is set around Gweebarra Bay. *Irish singer Maggie Boyle's song "Gweebarra Shore" (album "Gweebarra" 1998) tells of loss and of childhood memories of this place. *Poet

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.

refers to Gweebarra in his poem "The Singer's House" published in 1979 as part of his collection ''

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