www.donegalcottageholidays.com Portnoo and its sister village of Narin are small but attractive seaside resorts on the northern shore of the Dawros Peninsula, a few miles along the coast form both Ardara and Glenties. Portnoo is as good a place as any to take the bracing sea air, with the Atlantic rolling in towards the sandy beach which stretches to the east past Narin. Although the village faces north into the Atlantic the hills to the west on Dunmore Head offer very welcome protection