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About Ballintra

Ballintra, Baile an tSratha in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 157 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the R231. The map gives it 877 buildings and 3 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 142 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 38th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
157 km north-east of Galway, 183 km from Dublin
Position
54.5775° N, 8.1252° W
Roads
R231
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
877 buildings, 3 streets, 2 named places in 13 kinds
Ballintra Church of Ireland
Ballintra Church of Ireland·Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Boarded-up door, Ballintra
Boarded-up door, Ballintra·Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ballintra in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1988. That is not a history of Ballintra, 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 century1988Donegal Franciscan AbbeyBelleek Pottery
The fifteenth 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 142 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R231 running through Ballintra.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballintra?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 157 km north-east of Galway and 183 km from Dublin, on the R231.
How big is Ballintra?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 877 buildings, 3 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 38th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Ballintra?
142 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Buneeny Hill, Dromore Hill and Ballynacarrick Hill.
How do you get to Ballintra?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
877
buildings on the model
3
named streets
2
named places
13
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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