Murder Hole Beach, County Donegal.


I think I read somewhere back in the 1700s there was a woman pushed off a cliff there and well, she died, thus the “murder” in the name. As for the “hole”, there’s a cave on the beach, more of an arch, that goes from one section of the beach to another. I think that beach is on private land which I guess isn’t all that private!

There’s a few violent names way up Donegal. Another spot called “Bloody Foreland”, but that’s only because the sun shining discolored the rocks in red-blood like colour. Murder hole and bloody foreland names came from their Irish language originally, cnóc fola or Knockfola would be the area.

Theres a new path to access now isn’t there? Instead of through a farmers field?

Yeah. It looks pretty good. Tempted to jump in? Don’t. It’s friggin freezing. It’s murder!