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About Carrowkeel

Carrowkeel, An Cheathrú Chaol in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 219 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R245. The map gives it 542 buildings and 1 named street, with 11 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 103 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 66th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
219 km north-west of Dublin
Position
55.1373° N, 7.6664° W
Roads
R245
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
542 buildings, 1 street, 11 named places in 22 kinds
Picturesque Donegal its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908) (14757120916)
Picturesque Donegal its mountains, rivers, and lakes. Being the Great Northern Railway (Ireland) Company's illustrated guide to the sporting and touring grounds of the north of Ireland (1908) (14757120916)·Internet Archive Book Images, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Pump detail, Kerrykeel
Pump detail, Kerrykeel·Kenneth Allen, 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 103 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R245 running through Carrowkeel.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 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 Carrowkeel?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 219 km north-west of Dublin and 219 km from Dublin, on the R245.
How big is Carrowkeel?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 542 buildings, 1 named street and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 66th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Carrowkeel?
103 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Ranny Hill, Crockmore and Lough Cor.
How do you get to Carrowkeel?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Patrick Gallagher 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.
542
buildings on the model
1
named streets
11
named places
22
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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