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About Gortahork

Gortahork, Gort a' Choirce in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 214 km north of Galway. It stands on the N56. The map gives it 976 buildings and 2 named streets, with 14 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 105 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 32th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
375, as the map records it
Where
214 km north of Galway, 231 km from Dublin
Position
55.1195° N, 8.1344° W
Roads
N56
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
976 buildings, 2 streets, 14 named places in 20 kinds
Gortahork Cemetery from the Christ the King Church steps
Gortahork Cemetery from the Christ the King Church steps·Charlie McHugh, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Cnoc na hArdagh Bige
Cnoc na hArdagh Bige·Kenneth Allen, 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 105 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N56 running through Gortahork.

By bus or train

5 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Adult Education & Training Centre.

Questions people ask

Where is Gortahork?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 214 km north of Galway and 231 km from Dublin, on the N56.
How big is Gortahork?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 976 buildings, 2 named streets and 14 named places, which by building count makes it the 32th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Gortahork?
105 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Herwainan, Loch Bhaile na Creige and Tullaghobegly Church.
How do you get to Gortahork?
5 bus and train lines call at 2 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.
976
buildings on the model
2
named streets
14
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 Q788778). 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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