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About Ballyshannon

Ballyshannon, Béal Átha Seanaidh in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 148 km north-east of Galway. It stands on the N15, N3 and R231. The map gives it 3,703 buildings and 24 named streets, with 90 places named on them in 58 kinds, and 109 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 6th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
148 km north-east of Galway, 180 km from Dublin
Position
54.5020° N, 8.1898° W
Roads
N15, N3, R231 and R267
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
3,703 buildings, 24 streets, 90 named places in 58 kinds
Rory Gallagher statue in Bellyshanon, County Donegal, Ireland
Rory Gallagher statue in Bellyshanon, County Donegal, Ireland·Joli Rumi, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Rory Gallagher statue in Bellyshanon, County Donegal, Ireland1
Rory Gallagher statue in Bellyshanon, County Donegal, Ireland1·Joli Rumi, 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 109 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N15, N3, R231 and R267 running through Ballyshannon.

By bus or train

8 lines call at 5 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Holy Family National School and Coláiste Cholmcille.

Questions people ask

Where is Ballyshannon?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 148 km north-east of Galway and 180 km from Dublin, on the N15, N3 and R231.
How big is Ballyshannon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 3,703 buildings, 24 named streets and 90 named places, which by building count makes it the 6th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Ballyshannon?
109 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Millennium Milepost, Rory Gallagher and Dungravenen.
How do you get to Ballyshannon?
8 bus and train lines call at 5 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.
3,703
buildings on the model
24
named streets
90
named places
58
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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