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About Ballyliffin

Ballyliffin, Baile Lifín in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 227 km north of Dublin. The map gives it 588 buildings and 0 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 19 kinds, and 64 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 60th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
227 km north of Dublin
Position
55.2806° N, 7.3934° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
588 buildings, 0 streets, 10 named places in 19 kinds
Stars at the top of Crockaughrim hill overlooking Trawbreaga Bay
Stars at the top of Crockaughrim hill overlooking Trawbreaga Bay·Inishpics, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Tullag Bay views from Binion Hill at sunset
Tullag Bay views from Binion Hill at sunset·Inishpics, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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 64 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Ballyliffin; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 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 Ballyliffin?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 227 km north of Dublin and 227 km from Dublin.
How big is Ballyliffin?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 588 buildings, 0 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 60th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Ballyliffin?
64 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Crockaughrim, Binnion and Coolcross Hill.
How do you get to Ballyliffin?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by McGonagle Bus and Coach Hire 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.
588
buildings on the model
0
named streets
10
named places
19
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 Q2078123). 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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