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About Fintown

Fintown, Baile na Finne in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 188 km north of Galway. The map gives it 192 buildings and 0 named streets, with 5 places named on them in 4 kinds, and 138 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 85th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
188 km north of Galway, 208 km from Dublin
Position
54.8706° N, 8.1133° W, 169 m above sea level
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
192 buildings, 0 streets, 5 named places in 4 kinds
Old Narrow Gauge Railway near Fintown
Old Narrow Gauge Railway near Fintown·James Emmans, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
The old Fintown railway car beside the derelict station.
The old Fintown railway car beside the derelict station.·Greg Clarke, 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 138 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Fintown; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 2 lines call at 3 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 Fintown?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 188 km north of Galway and 208 km from Dublin.
How big is Fintown?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 192 buildings, 0 named streets and 5 named places, which by building count makes it the 85th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Fintown?
138 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Glenaboghil Lough, Scraigs and Lough Nambraddan.
How do you get to Fintown?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by McGeehan Coaches and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
192
buildings on the model
0
named streets
5
named places
4
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 Q2078231). 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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