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About An Charraig

An Charraig is a village in County Donegal, 209 km north of Galway. It stands on the R257. The map gives it 844 buildings and 2 named streets, with 6 places named on them in 9 kinds, and 97 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 40th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
209 km north of Galway, 235 km from Dublin
Position
55.1013° N, 8.2876° W
Roads
R257
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
844 buildings, 2 streets, 6 named places in 9 kinds

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 97 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R257 running through An Charraig.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Pobalscoil Ghaoth Dobhair.

Questions people ask

Where is An Charraig?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 209 km north of Galway and 235 km from Dublin, on the R257.
How big is An Charraig?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 844 buildings, 2 named streets and 6 named places, which by building count makes it the 40th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in An Charraig?
97 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch Bhun an Inbhir, An Trá Líona and Loch Mhór an Bhachráin.
How do you get to An Charraig?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R257.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
844
buildings on the model
2
named streets
6
named places
9
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. 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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