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About Dunfanaghy

Dunfanaghy, Dún Fionnachaidh in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 224 km north of Galway. It stands on the N56. The map gives it 1,381 buildings and 13 named streets, with 83 places named on them in 41 kinds, and 104 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 19th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
224 km north of Galway, 232 km from Dublin
Position
55.1834° N, 7.9718° W, 15 m above sea level
Roads
N56
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
1,381 buildings, 13 streets, 83 named places in 41 kinds
Simply de Vine music bar, Dunfanaghy
Simply de Vine music bar, Dunfanaghy·Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The front of Molly's Bar and Grill, Dunfanaghy
The front of Molly's Bar and Grill, Dunfanaghy·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 104 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N56 running through Dunfanaghy.

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: Holy Trinity National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Dunfanaghy?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 224 km north of Galway and 232 km from Dublin, on the N56.
How big is Dunfanaghy?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,381 buildings, 13 named streets and 83 named places, which by building count makes it the 19th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Dunfanaghy?
104 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Welcome to Dunfanaghy, Dunfanaghy Castle and Anchor.
How do you get to Dunfanaghy?
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.
1,381
buildings on the model
13
named streets
83
named places
41
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 Q212489). 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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