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About Drumfries

Drumfries, Droim Fraoigh in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 218 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R238. The map gives it 313 buildings and 1 named street, with 4 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 72 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 76th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
218 km north of Dublin
Position
55.1963° N, 7.3956° W
Roads
R238
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
313 buildings, 1 street, 4 named places in 17 kinds
Sheep roaming on a road in Donegal, Ireland.
Sheep roaming on a road in Donegal, Ireland.·Ciaran036, CC0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mountain view
Mountain view·Mat Tuck, 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 records the R238 running through Drumfries.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Drumfries?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 218 km north of Dublin and 218 km from Dublin, on the R238.
How big is Drumfries?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 313 buildings, 1 named street and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 76th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Drumfries?
72 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Mintiaghs Lough, Mintiaghs Lough and Lough Doo.
How do you get to Drumfries?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R238.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
313
buildings on the model
1
named streets
4
named places
17
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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