Comments National Geographic Traveller named Couty Donegal on their 2017 "Cool List" and we couldn't agree more. As they say themselves up there "it's different". Donegal claimed the top spot on National Geographic Traveller's "Cool List" of recommendations for people who love to travel back in 2017. Read more Among the other “culture capitals, hipster hotspots, wild escapes, and places generally keeping it cool,” County Donegal beat other great destinations to visit such as Greenland, Sudan, and Seoul. Explaining why it gave Donegal, the Irish Republic’s most isolated county, the nod the magazine said: With a weather-nibbled coast spotted with sea stacks, Blue Flag beaches, and offshore islands, Donegal is a land that feels undiscovered. Last summer, scenes for 'Star Wars: Episode VIII' were filmed on the Inishowen Peninsula. But this area of Ireland is also expecting 2017 to be a big year; there’s an array of reasons to visit, from surfing beaches in Magheroarty and Ballyhiernan Bay to Horn Head – a driving, walking or cycling loop that squeezes the 1,600-mile Wild Atlantic Way into a 4.5-mile nutshell.