Skip to content
Donegal
County Donegal · Ulster

About Gweedore

Gweedore, Gaoth Dobhair in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 204 km north of Galway, with 4,065 people at the 2002 census. It stands on the N56. The map gives it 200 buildings and 2 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 9 kinds, and 180 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 84th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
4,065 at the 2002 census
Where
204 km north of Galway, 228 km from Dublin
Position
55.0501° N, 8.2322° W, 32 m above sea level
Roads
N56
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
200 buildings, 2 streets, 2 named places in 9 kinds
At Gweedore, Co. Donegal (23352182413)
At Gweedore, Co. Donegal (23352182413)·Robert French, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons
Halfway House at Gweedore in Co. Donegal (11113786414)
Halfway House at Gweedore in Co. Donegal (11113786414)·Photographer: Almost certainly Robert French of Lawrence Photographic Studios, Dublin National Library of Ireland on The Commons, no restrictions 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 180 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N56 running through Gweedore.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Gweedore?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 204 km north of Galway and 228 km from Dublin, on the N56.
How big is Gweedore?
4,065 people at the 2002 census. On the map it is 200 buildings and 2 named streets.
What is there to see in Gweedore?
180 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lough Clogher Macnaghlan, Malaidh na Seacht Leacht and Lough Anillan.
How do you get to Gweedore?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the N56.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
200
buildings on the model
2
named streets
2
named places
9
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 Q693164). 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.

Back to Gweedore·Getting to Gweedore·County Donegal