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About Downings

Downings, Na Dúnaibh in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 228 km north of Galway. The map gives it 963 buildings and 10 named streets, with 32 places named on them in 26 kinds, and 125 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 33th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
601, as the map records it
Where
228 km north of Galway, 229 km from Dublin
Position
55.1949° N, 7.8351° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
963 buildings, 10 streets, 32 named places in 26 kinds
Old house at Downings
Old house at Downings·Rossographer, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Downings - Coastal View
Downings - Coastal View·James Emmans, 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 125 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Downings; the roads it does record are local. 8 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

2 lines call at 8 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Scoil Naomh Bríd.

Questions people ask

Where is Downings?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 228 km north of Galway and 229 km from Dublin.
How big is Downings?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 963 buildings, 10 named streets and 32 named places, which by building count makes it the 33th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Downings?
125 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Laurentic Gun, Rosapenna Lake and Murlog.
How do you get to Downings?
2 bus and train lines call at 8 stops here in the published timetable, run by Patrick Gallagher Travel 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.
963
buildings on the model
10
named streets
32
named places
26
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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