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Donegal
County Donegal · Ulster

About Donegal

Donegal, Dún na nGall in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 165 km north of Galway, with 2,618 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the N15, N56 and R267. The map gives it 4,103 buildings and 42 named streets, with 205 places named on them in 96 kinds, and 136 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 4th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
2,618 at the 2016 census
Where
165 km north of Galway, 189 km from Dublin
Position
54.6538° N, 8.1103° W, 32 m above sea level
Area
2.65 km²
Roads
N15, N56, R267 and R925
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
Twinned with
St. Louis, United States
On the model
4,103 buildings, 42 streets, 205 named places in 96 kinds
Signs in The Diamond, Donegal At the southern end of The Diamond in Donegal Town.
Signs in The Diamond, Donegal At the southern end of The Diamond in Donegal Town.·Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The Diamond, Donegal The west side of The Diamond in Donegal Town.
The Diamond, Donegal The west side of The Diamond in Donegal Town.·Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Donegal in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1934. That is not a history of Donegal, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the fifteenth century1934Donegal Franciscan AbbeyFour Masters Memorial
The fifteenth century
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century

County Donegal since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

296,448108,344167,08418412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 136 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N15, N56, R267 and R925 running through Donegal. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

10 lines call at 3 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

3 school or colleges on the map: Gaelscoil na gCeithre Máistrí, Scoil Aodh Rua agus Nuala and Scoil Aodh Rua agus Nuala.

Questions people ask

Where is Donegal?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 165 km north of Galway and 189 km from Dublin, on the N15, N56 and R267.
How big is Donegal?
2,618 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 4,103 buildings and 42 named streets.
What is there to see in Donegal?
136 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Diamond, Four Masters Memorial and Donegal Castle.
How do you get to Donegal?
10 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
4,103
buildings on the model
42
named streets
205
named places
96
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q855330). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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