About Cashel
Cashel, An Caiseal in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 161 km north of Galway. It stands on the R230 and L5055. The map gives it 623 buildings and 4 named streets, with 46 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 100 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 59th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
- Population
- 167, as the map records it
- Where
- 161 km north of Galway, 221 km from Dublin
- Position
- 54.7065° N, 8.7285° W
- Roads
- R230 and L5055
- Governed
- Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
- On the model
- 623 buildings, 4 streets, 46 named places in 26 kinds
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.
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.
- Grotto190 mShrines
- Donnchadh Mac Niallghuis250 mMonuments
- Tobar Fhathnaid320 mHoly wells
- Tobar Chonaill410 mHoly wells
- AN CAISEAL Ring-cairn510 mRingforts and sites
- Glencolumbkille Viewpoint520 mViewpoints
- Turas Cholmcille Stad 2530 mWaymarks and guideposts
- Glencolumbkille Turas540 mRingforts and sites
- Turas Cholmcille Stad 1560 mWaymarks and guideposts
- Turas Cholmcille Stad 15590 mWaymarks and guideposts
- Turas Cholmcille Stad 13730 mWaymarks and guideposts
- Glencolumbkille Turas740 mRingforts and sites
Getting around
The map records the R230 and L5055 running through Cashel. 2 car parks on the map.
2 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.
2 school or colleges on the map: Oideas Gael and Scoil Náisiúnta Chaisil.
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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.