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About Carrigans

Carrigans, An Carraigín in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 194 km north-west of Dublin, with 191 people at the 2006 census. The map gives it 438 buildings and 3 named streets, with 1 place named on them in 15 kinds, and 94 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 73th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
191 at the 2006 census
Where
194 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.9509° N, 7.4295° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
438 buildings, 3 streets, 1 named place in 15 kinds
County Donegal, Carrigans Head Signal Tower.
County Donegal, Carrigans Head Signal Tower.·MarieDub, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Donegal, Carrigans Head Signal Tower.
County Donegal, Carrigans Head Signal Tower.·Cargan47, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Carrigans in order

4 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1927 to 2001. That is not a history of Carrigans, 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.

19272001Diamond War MemorialH-Block Memorial
The twentieth century
The twenty-first 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 94 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 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 Carrigans?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 194 km north-west of Dublin and 194 km from Dublin.
How big is Carrigans?
191 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 438 buildings and 3 named streets.
What is there to see in Carrigans?
94 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Magheramason Community Garden, Gortmonly Hill and Port Lough.
How do you get to Carrigans?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
438
buildings on the model
3
named streets
1
named places
15
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 Q1711591). 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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