Machaire Rabhartaigh
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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Machaire Rabhartaigh
| other_name = Magheroarty
| settlement_type = Village
| image_skyline = machairerabhartaigh2011.jpg
| image_caption = Machaire Rabhartaigh strand, October 2011
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| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = Ireland
| subdivision_type1 = Province
| subdivision_name1 = Ulster
| subdivision_type3 = County
| subdivision_name3 = County Donegal
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| leader_title1 = Dáil Éireann
| leader_name1 = Donegal
| unit_pref = Metric
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| area_code = 074, +000 353 74
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Machaire Rabhartaigh (known in English as Magheroarty), meaning "plain of the spring tide/plain of Roarty",{{Cite web |title=Machaire Rabhartaigh/Magheraroarty |url=https://www.logainm.ie/ga/14351 |access-date=21 May 2025 |website=Placenames Database of Ireland}} is a Gaeltacht village and townland on the north-west coast of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. It is in the parish of Cloughaneely{{Cite news |last=Maguire |first=Stephen |date=23 September 2017 |title=New Tory ferry and breakwater for Magheroarty Pier on cards |url=https://www.donegaldaily.com/2017/09/23/new-tory-ferry-and-breakwater-for-magheroarty-pier-on-cards/ |access-date=21 May 2025 |work=Donegal Daily}} and its main access road is the R257.{{Cite ISB|title=Roads Act 1993 (Classification of Regional Roads) Order 2012|year=2012|number=54|access-date=21 May 2025|signedby=Leo Varadkar|date=23 February 2012|type=si}}
It has been home to a Gael Linn Irish language Summer school, Coláiste Mhachaire Rabhartaigh, since 1981 which runs courses for teenagers from Northern Ireland every summer.{{cite web |title=Gaeltachta: Co. Donegal |url=http://www.gael-linn.ie/glinn/gaeltachta_donegal1.aspx |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071030030609/http://www.gael-linn.ie/glinn/gaeltachta_Donegal1.aspx |archive-date=2007-10-30 |access-date=21 May 2025 |website=Gael Linn}} {{Cite web |title=Gaeltacht Colleges: Donegal 1 |url=https://www.gael-linn.ie/en/courses/col%C3%A1ist%C3%AD-gael-linn/108-9/ |access-date=21 May 2025 |website=Gael Linn}}
The village has a port used by fishing vessels. It also the main ferry port for Tory Island.{{Cite news |last=Magnier |first=Eileen |date=13 July 1993 |title=Winter Ferry Service For Tory Island |url=https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0704/976315-tory-island-ferry-service/ |access-date=21 May 2025 |work=RTÉ News |via=RTÉ Archives}}
It attracts tourists during the summer and watersports enthusiasts visit the area to windsurf/surf/kitesurf and to go kayaking in the bay. A natural reef exists to the left of the pier which provides conditions suitable for surfing throughout the year.{{fact|date=March 2024}} Amenities include a pub, café{{citation needed|date=April 2021}} and Scoil Naomh Dubhthach Machaire Rabhartaigh, an Irish-medium primary school.{{Cite web |date=23 August 2024 |orig-date=7 July 2021 |title=SCOIL NAOMH DUBHTHACH |url=https://www.gov.ie/en/department-of-education/schools/scoil-naomh-dubhthach/ |access-date=21 May 2025 |website=Government of Ireland |publisher=Department of Education and Youth}}