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About Burtonport

Burtonport, Ailt an Chorráin in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 194 km north of Galway, with 270 people at the 2006 census. The map gives it 934 buildings and 1 named street, with 15 places named on them in 16 kinds, and 154 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 35th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
270 at the 2006 census
Where
194 km north of Galway, 230 km from Dublin
Position
54.9812° N, 8.4225° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
934 buildings, 1 street, 15 named places in 16 kinds
House on the R259 south of Leckenagh
House on the R259 south of Leckenagh·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The belfry and community centre of St Columba's Church, Lackenagh
The belfry and community centre of St Columba's Church, Lackenagh·Eric Jones, 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 154 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 3 stops 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 Burtonport?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 194 km north of Galway and 230 km from Dublin.
How big is Burtonport?
270 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 934 buildings and 1 named street.
What is there to see in Burtonport?
154 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Leckenagh Lough, Lough Ballyboy and Lough Waskel.
How do you get to Burtonport?
3 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Doherty's 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.
934
buildings on the model
1
named streets
15
named places
16
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 Q1016318). 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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