Shrove, County Donegal
hamlet in Inishowen, County Donegal, in Ulster, Ireland
Shrove (; pronounced as 'Shroove' to rhyme with 'prove'; Irish: An tSrúibh or, originally, Srúibh Bhrain) is a coastal hamlet and townland in Inishowen in the north of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. The hamlet is located a short distance to the north of Greencastle in the north-east of Inishowen, a peninsula on the north coast of Ireland. The name of both the hamlet and the townland is also sometimes written as Shroove, and is sometimes written as Stroove by some government bodies.
The hamlet of Shrove (pronounced as 'Shroove') is located beside White Bay, also known as Big White Bay, at the southern end of the townland of Shrove. Shrove Strand, also known as Shrove Beach, runs along the western edge of White Bay, the bay being slightly to the north of the entrance into Lough Foyle. Shrove lies immediately north of Magilligan Point, a hamlet a short distance away on the opposite shore in County Londonderry. All of the townland of Shrove, including the entire hamlet of Shrove, is part of the Civil Parish of Moville Lower. Shrove is at the northern end of the Wild Atlantic Way, the hamlet being on the eastern coastline of Inishowen.
Name
Shrove is known in the English language by several different names. All but one of these names (that being the erroneous 'Inishowen Head') are derived from its earliest-recorded Irish language place-name, which was Srúbe Brain, later written as Srúibh Bhrain, meaning either 'point / beak of the raven' or 'Bran's point'.
The public source identifies “Shrove, County Donegal” as hamlet in Inishowen, County Donegal, in Ulster, Ireland. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Shrove, County and Donegal.
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