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About Greencastle

Greencastle, An Caisleán Nua in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 211 km north of Dublin. It stands on the R241 and L6091. The map gives it 990 buildings and 10 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 62 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 31th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
211 km north of Dublin
Position
55.2037° N, 6.9810° W, 30 m above sea level
Roads
R241 and L6091
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
990 buildings, 10 streets, 15 named places in 22 kinds
The green at Greencastle
The green at Greencastle·Malcolm Neal, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Greencastle harbour
Greencastle harbour·Malcolm Neal, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Greencastle in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from 1305 to the eighteenth century. That is not a history of Greencastle, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

1305the eighteenth centuryGreencastleMausoleum
The fourteenth century
The eighteenth century
  • the eighteenth centuryMausoleumMonuments · 12 km from the centre · Grade B+ listed building
  • the eighteenth centuryMussenden TempleMonuments · 12 km from the centre · Grade A listed building

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 62 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R241 and L6091 running through Greencastle.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: National Fisheries College.

Questions people ask

Where is Greencastle?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 211 km north of Dublin and 211 km from Dublin, on the R241 and L6091.
How big is Greencastle?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 990 buildings, 10 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 31th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Greencastle?
62 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Templemoyle, Maritime memorial and Inishowen Maritime Museum and Planetarium.
How do you get to Greencastle?
4 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by 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.
990
buildings on the model
10
named streets
15
named places
22
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 Q2247517). 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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