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About Castlefinn

Castlefinn, Caisleán na Finne in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 184 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the N15 and B85. The map gives it 2,703 buildings and 12 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 45 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 9th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
184 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.8034° N, 7.5932° W
Roads
N15 and B85
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
2,703 buildings, 12 streets, 15 named places in 25 kinds
Bell detail, St Mary's Church
Bell detail, St Mary's Church·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 45 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N15 and B85 running through Castlefinn.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: St Columba's Primary School and St. Mary's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Castlefinn?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 184 km north-west of Dublin and 184 km from Dublin, on the N15 and B85.
How big is Castlefinn?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,703 buildings, 12 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 9th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Castlefinn?
45 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Crossy Hill, Carnowen Hill and Croaghan Hill.
How do you get to Castlefinn?
3 bus and train lines call at 6 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.
2,703
buildings on the model
12
named streets
15
named places
25
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 Q2563725). 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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