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Donegal
Ballyshannon, County Donegal

Things to do in Ballyshannon

Find places that fit your time and your plans. 12 of them are in Ballyshannon itself and 97 more within twelve kilometres, because the castle outside the village is usually the reason to go to the village.

96 places

Places to explore in pictures

More places to explore

Showing 96 of 109 places, with photographs first. Every kind of place in Ballyshannon lists the rest.

12
in Ballyshannon
97
within 12 km
94
outdoors
6
indoors
8
for children

Put a day together

A day on foot in Ballyshannon: 7 stops the map records, joined in the shortest order that walks them all, 4.45 km in total.

Ballyshannon in a day

By kind

Events during your visit

Checked against the organiser's own pages. Pick a date on the events page and it answers for that day rather than for the month.

Everything on in Ballyshannon

While you are there

21 places to eat and 5 places to stay on the map in Ballyshannon, and 8 bus and train lines calling here.

Places to eat·Ballyshannon on the map·Getting to Ballyshannon

Questions people ask

What is there to do in Ballyshannon?
12 places inside Ballyshannon and 97 more within twelve kilometres, mostly lakes, hills and ringforts and sites.
How is indoors or outdoors decided?
By what kind of place each one is: a museum is indoors, a park is not, a castle is some of each. OpenStreetMap carries an indoor tag on about one visitor place in three hundred, so a filter built on the tag would hide almost everything. This is a rule about kinds of place, not a claim about any one of them.
Does with kids mean it is suitable for my child?
No. It means the kind of place children generally do: playgrounds, beaches, parks, zoos, museums. The map records an age limit on a handful of places in the country, so nothing here claims a place suits a particular age.
What does it cost, and when is it open?
This page does not say. OpenStreetMap records a fee on about one visitor place in sixty and opening hours on one in fifty, so stating either would mean guessing for almost everything. Each place's own page shows what the map does hold and links to the operator.
How do you get to Ballyshannon?
8 bus and train lines call at a stop in Ballyshannon in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim. Which of them runs on the day you are going, and how long it takes from where you are starting, is worked out on the Getting to Ballyshannon page.

Places are OpenStreetMap records and each links to the one it came from. Indoors, outdoors and with kids are worked out from what kind of place a thing is, not from tags on it, because the tags exist on almost none of them. Visit lengths are a default for each kind. Distances are straight lines from the centre of Ballyshannon.