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About Bunbeg

Bunbeg, An Bun Beag in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 204 km north of Galway. It stands on the R257. The map gives it 1,055 buildings and 1 named street, with 22 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 146 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
749, as the map records it
Where
204 km north of Galway, 232 km from Dublin
Position
55.0597° N, 8.3003° W
Area
7.94 km²
Roads
R257
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
1,055 buildings, 1 street, 22 named places in 24 kinds
St. Patrick's Church (Church of Ireland), Harbour Road, Bunbeg, Co. Donegal
St. Patrick's Church (Church of Ireland), Harbour Road, Bunbeg, Co. Donegal·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Harbour Road junction with R257, Bunbeg, Co. Donegal
Harbour Road junction with R257, Bunbeg, Co. Donegal·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 146 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R257 running through Bunbeg.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Chonaill.

Questions people ask

Where is Bunbeg?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 204 km north of Galway and 232 km from Dublin, on the R257.
How big is Bunbeg?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,055 buildings, 1 named street and 22 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Bunbeg?
146 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Naweeloge, Trá Dún Mór and An Trá Mór.
How do you get to Bunbeg?
4 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, John McGinley Coach Travel 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.
1,055
buildings on the model
1
named streets
22
named places
24
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 Q2563229). 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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