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About Brinlack

Brinlack, Bun na Leaca in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 212 km north of Galway. The map gives it 690 buildings and 0 named streets, with 7 places named on them in 7 kinds, and 67 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 53th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
569, as the map records it
Where
212 km north of Galway, 237 km from Dublin
Position
55.1269° N, 8.2817° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
690 buildings, 0 streets, 7 named places in 7 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 67 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop 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 Brinlack?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 212 km north of Galway and 237 km from Dublin.
How big is Brinlack?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 690 buildings, 0 named streets and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 53th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Brinlack?
67 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Bheithe, Cnoc Fola and Loch Bhun an Inbhir.
How do you get to Brinlack?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by 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.
690
buildings on the model
0
named streets
7
named places
7
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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