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About Falcarragh

Falcarragh, An Fál Carrach in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 216 km north of Galway. It stands on the R256 and L1039. The map gives it 2,273 buildings and 6 named streets, with 43 places named on them in 35 kinds, and 125 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 15th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
829, as the map records it
Where
216 km north of Galway, 232 km from Dublin
Position
55.1364° N, 8.1040° W
Roads
R256 and L1039
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
2,273 buildings, 6 streets, 43 named places in 35 kinds
The Corner Bar, Main Street, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal
The Corner Bar, Main Street, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Resurfacing Main Street, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal
Resurfacing Main Street, Falcarragh, Co. Donegal·P L Chadwick, 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 records the R256 and L1039 running through Falcarragh.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Pobalscoil Chloich Cheannfhaola.

Questions people ask

Where is Falcarragh?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 216 km north of Galway and 232 km from Dublin, on the R256 and L1039.
How big is Falcarragh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,273 buildings, 6 named streets and 43 named places, which by building count makes it the 15th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Falcarragh?
125 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Éin an Fhál Carraigh, An tSean Bharic and Tullaghobegly Church.
How do you get to Falcarragh?
5 bus and train lines call at 6 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.
2,273
buildings on the model
6
named streets
43
named places
35
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 Q177525). 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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