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About Fahan

Fahan, Fathain in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 209 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R238. The map gives it 677 buildings and 3 named streets, with 13 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 55th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
209 km north-west of Dublin
Position
55.0886° N, 7.4742° W
Roads
R238
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
677 buildings, 3 streets, 13 named places in 17 kinds
Fahan Beach
Fahan Beach·Legenderry photograp…, CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
St Muras's Church Fahan
St Muras's Church Fahan·Greg Clarke from Buncrana, Donegal, CC BY 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 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R238 running through Fahan.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 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 Fahan?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 209 km north-west of Dublin and 209 km from Dublin, on the R238.
How big is Fahan?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 677 buildings, 3 named streets and 13 named places, which by building count makes it the 55th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Fahan?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Fahan Holy Well, Lisfannon Beach and Lisfannon Beach.
How do you get to Fahan?
3 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by McGonagle Bus and Coach Hire, McGonagle Bus and Coach Ltd. 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.
677
buildings on the model
3
named streets
13
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 (item Q2563699). 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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