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About Derrybeg

Derrybeg, Doirí Beaga in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 207 km north of Galway. It stands on the R257. The map gives it 1,354 buildings and 2 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 24 kinds, and 117 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 21th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
794, as the map records it
Where
207 km north of Galway, 233 km from Dublin
Position
55.0782° N, 8.2891° W
Roads
R257
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
1,354 buildings, 2 streets, 19 named places in 24 kinds
The beach at Bunbeg
The beach at Bunbeg·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Houses facing the sea, Bunbeg
Houses facing the sea, Bunbeg·Humphrey Bolton, 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 117 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R257 running through Derrybeg.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 4 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 Derrybeg?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 207 km north of Galway and 233 km from Dublin, on the R257.
How big is Derrybeg?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,354 buildings, 2 named streets and 19 named places, which by building count makes it the 21th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Derrybeg?
117 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Trá Mór, Lough Naweeloge and Trá Dún Mór.
How do you get to Derrybeg?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda 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.
1,354
buildings on the model
2
named streets
19
named places
24
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 Q3756358). 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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