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About Dungloe

Dungloe, An Clochán Liath in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 192 km north of Galway. It stands on the N56, R259 and L1583. The map gives it 2,661 buildings and 12 named streets, with 95 places named on them in 40 kinds, and 195 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 10th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
1,247, as the map records it
Where
192 km north of Galway, 224 km from Dublin
Position
54.9507° N, 8.3597° W, 16 m above sea level
Roads
N56, R259 and L1583
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
2,661 buildings, 12 streets, 95 named places in 40 kinds
Dunglow - The Bridge Inn
Dunglow - The Bridge Inn·Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
"Wee Daniel's" Visitor Centre, An Clochán Liath / Dungloe
"Wee Daniel's" Visitor Centre, An Clochán Liath / Dungloe·Eric Jones, 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 195 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N56, R259 and L1583 running through Dungloe.

By bus or train

6 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Rosses Community School and St Crona's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Dungloe?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 192 km north of Galway and 224 km from Dublin, on the N56, R259 and L1583.
How big is Dungloe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,661 buildings, 12 named streets and 95 named places, which by building count makes it the 10th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Dungloe?
195 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Loch Fada, Lough Adrihidbeg and Lough Doo South.
How do you get to Dungloe?
6 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and Doherty's Travel.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
2,661
buildings on the model
12
named streets
95
named places
40
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 Q1265808). 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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