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About Buncrana

Buncrana, Bun Cranncha in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 213 km north of Dublin, with 6,785 people at the 2016 census. It stands on the R238 and L1116. The map gives it 5,970 buildings and 35 named streets, with 76 places named on them in 53 kinds, and 95 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the second largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
6,785 at the 2016 census
Where
213 km north of Dublin
Position
55.1354° N, 7.4531° W, 62 m above sea level
Roads
R238 and L1116
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
Twinned with
Fréhel, France
On the model
5,970 buildings, 35 streets, 76 named places in 53 kinds
Buncrana Plaza Ballroom 2023 08 23
Buncrana Plaza Ballroom 2023 08 23·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Buncrana Plaza Ballroom Entrance 2023 08 23
Buncrana Plaza Ballroom Entrance 2023 08 23·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Buncrana in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1812 to 1812. That is not a history of Buncrana, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

18121812Fort Dunree Military MuseumFort Dunree Military Museum
The nineteenth century

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 95 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R238 and L1116 running through Buncrana. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 10 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Crana College and Scoil Iosagain.

Questions people ask

Where is Buncrana?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 213 km north of Dublin and 213 km from Dublin, on the R238 and L1116.
How big is Buncrana?
6,785 people at the 2016 census. On the map it is 5,970 buildings and 35 named streets.
What is there to see in Buncrana?
95 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Fishing Greens, Shore Greens and O'Doherty's Keep.
How do you get to Buncrana?
6 bus and train lines call at 10 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, John McGinley Coach Travel and McGonagle Bus and Coach Hire.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
5,970
buildings on the model
35
named streets
76
named places
53
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 Q751475). 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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