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About Cloghan

Cloghan, An Clochán in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 189 km north-east of Galway. The map gives it 379 buildings and 1 named street, with 2 places named on them in 6 kinds, and 72 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 74th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
189 km north-east of Galway, 199 km from Dublin
Position
54.8420° N, 7.9361° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
379 buildings, 1 street, 2 named places in 6 kinds
500px provided description: Just hanging in a beautiful natural setting Ireland - Co.Donegal [#Bridge ,#Ireland ,#River ,#Creepy ,#Girls ,#Finn ,#Hanged ,#Donegal Castle]
500px provided description: Just hanging in a beautiful natural setting Ireland - Co.Donegal [#Bridge ,#Ireland ,#River ,#Creepy ,#Girls ,#Finn ,#Hanged ,#Donegal Castle]·Patryk Sadowski, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Fields, sheep and hills
Fields, sheep and hills·Ian Paterson, 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 72 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop 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 Cloghan?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 189 km north-east of Galway and 199 km from Dublin.
How big is Cloghan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 379 buildings, 1 named street and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 74th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Cloghan?
72 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mullaghan Hill, Allt na Péiste and Three Tops.
How do you get to Cloghan?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by 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.
379
buildings on the model
1
named streets
2
named places
6
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 Q3367702). 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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