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About Glenties

Glenties, Na Gleannta in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 177 km north of Galway, with 811 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N56 and R253. The map gives it 1,221 buildings and 4 named streets, with 19 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 194 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
811 at the 2006 census
Where
177 km north of Galway, 208 km from Dublin
Position
54.7972° N, 8.2839° W, 78 m above sea level
Roads
N56 and R253
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
1,221 buildings, 4 streets, 19 named places in 20 kinds
The northern section of Main Street, Glenties
The northern section of Main Street, Glenties·Eric Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Glenties Garda Siochana Barracks facing up Main Street
Glenties Garda Siochana Barracks facing up Main Street·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 194 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N56 and R253 running through Glenties.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Scoil Mhuire Glenties and St. Columbas Comprehensive School.

Questions people ask

Where is Glenties?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 177 km north of Galway and 208 km from Dublin, on the N56 and R253.
How big is Glenties?
811 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 1,221 buildings and 4 named streets.
What is there to see in Glenties?
194 things the map records in and around it, the closest being St. Connell's Museum and Heritage Centre, Drumnasillagh Hill and Crockananima.
How do you get to Glenties?
3 bus and train lines call at 5 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Feda, Bus Éireann and McGeehan Coaches.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
1,221
buildings on the model
4
named streets
19
named places
20
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 Q667646). 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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