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About Crolly

Crolly, Croithlí in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 201 km north of Galway. The map gives it 567 buildings and 1 named street, with 8 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 202 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 62th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
201 km north of Galway, 227 km from Dublin
Position
55.0250° N, 8.2608° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
567 buildings, 1 street, 8 named places in 13 kinds
Bridge at Croithli
Bridge at Croithli·louise price, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Teach Phaidi Óig
Teach Phaidi Óig·N Chadwick, 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 202 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

6 lines call at 2 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 Crolly?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 201 km north of Galway and 227 km from Dublin.
How big is Crolly?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 567 buildings, 1 named street and 8 named places, which by building count makes it the 62th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Crolly?
202 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Cnoc Buí, Lough Anillan and Lough Nasmuttane.
How do you get to Crolly?
6 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Doherty's Travel and John McGinley Coach Travel.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
567
buildings on the model
1
named streets
8
named places
13
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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