Burn Dale facts for kids

The Burn Dale (Irish: An Daoil, meaning 'the Black One') is a burn or small river in the east of County Donegal in Ulster, Ireland. The burn is also known in English as the Dale Burn, the Burn Deele, the Burndale River, the Deele River or the River Deele.

The Burn Dale rises near Lough Dale, also known as Lough Deele, a lough just below Cark Mountain, very near Drumkeen, a village in East Donegal. The burn flows to the east-south-east from its source, flowing around the southern edges of both Drumkeen and Convoy, flowing just to the south of Raphoe, and flowing through the village of Ballindrait. It empties into the River Foyle directly opposite the Islandmore, just to the east of Mulrine's Bridge, on the northern outskirts of Lifford. The Burn Dale is almost 20 miles (almost 32 kilometres) long.

The N13 crosses the Burn Dale just outside Drumkeen, while the N14 crosses the Burn Dale at Mulrine's Bridge, near the Rossgeir Junction, just outside Lifford. The stretch of the R236 known locally as 'the Broad Road' crosses the Burn Dale at Glasly Bridge, just to the west-south-west of Convoy, while the R264 crosses the Burn Dale in Ballindrait.