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About Creeslough

Creeslough, An Craoslach in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 218 km north of Galway. It stands on the N56. The map gives it 836 buildings and 7 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 25 kinds, and 154 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 41th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
218 km north of Galway, 224 km from Dublin
Position
55.1224° N, 7.9078° W
Roads
N56
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
836 buildings, 7 streets, 21 named places in 25 kinds
St Michael's Church
St Michael's Church·Daragh McDonough, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
at Creeslough. Hudswell Clarke 747 of 1905. H C Casserley photo
at Creeslough. Hudswell Clarke 747 of 1905. H C Casserley photo·Trainiac from Australia, public domain 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 154 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N56 running through Creeslough.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Creeslough National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Creeslough?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 218 km north of Galway and 224 km from Dublin, on the N56.
How big is Creeslough?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 836 buildings, 7 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 41th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Creeslough?
154 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Crees Lough, Lough More and Maghera Lough.
How do you get to Creeslough?
4 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, John McGinley Coach Travel and Mangan Tours.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
836
buildings on the model
7
named streets
21
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 Q2078153). 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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