Donegal tweed manufactured for centuries it took on its modern form in the 1880s, largely due to the pioneering work of English philanthropist Alice Rowland Hart. While the weavers in County Donegal produce a number of different tweed fabrics, including herringbone and check patterns, the area is best known for a plain-weave cloth of differently-coloured warp and weft, with small pieces of yarn in various colours woven in at irregular intervals to produce a heathered effect. Such fabric is often labelled as "donegal" (with a lowercase "d") regardless of its provenance. Along with Harris Tweed manufactured in the Scottish Highlands, Donegal is
Lewis & Harris Football Association Lewis & Harris Football Association The Lewis & Harris Football Association is a football association which controls the Lewis & Harris League is the annual football league contested between clubs from Lewis and Harris, an island off Great Britain in Scotland. Like several other northern amateur leagues, the competition takes place in a summer calendar rather than the traditional winter program. Lewis contributes eight clubs to the league and Harris contributes one. The league is fully licensed with the Scottish Amateur Football Association and each club competes in the Highland Amateur Cup annually, with member clubs winning the cup eight