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  1. Mountainous county in Ulster province in the
  2. NW of the Republic of Ireland, surrounded on
  3. three sides by the Atlantic; area 4,830 sq
  4. km/1,864 sq mi; population (1986) 130,000.
  5. The county town is Lifford; the market town
  6. and port of Donegal is at the head of Donegal
  7. Bay in the SW. Commercial activities include
  8. sheep and cattle raising, tweed and linen
  9. manufacture, and some deep-sea fishing. The
  10. river Erne hydroelectric project (1952)
  11. involved the building of large power stations
  12. at Ballyshannon.
  13.