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About Kilcar

Kilcar, Cill Charthaigh in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 154 km north of Galway. It stands on the R263. The map gives it 687 buildings and 2 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 83 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 54th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
403, as the map records it
Where
154 km north of Galway, 209 km from Dublin
Position
54.6326° N, 8.5924° W
Roads
R263
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
687 buildings, 2 streets, 17 named places in 18 kinds
Kilcar Old Church 2010 09 24
Kilcar Old Church 2010 09 24·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View from the monastic site at the old church down to the village, looking east. The R263 is to be seen as it leaves Kilcar in direction to Killybegs.
View from the monastic site at the old church down to the village, looking east. The R263 is to be seen as it leaves Kilcar in direction to Killybegs.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 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 83 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R263 running through Kilcar.

By bus or train

2 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: Kilcar National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Kilcar?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 154 km north of Galway and 209 km from Dublin, on the R263.
How big is Kilcar?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 687 buildings, 2 named streets and 17 named places, which by building count makes it the 54th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Kilcar?
83 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Tobermurry, St. Connell's Well and St. Carthach's Well.
How do you get to Kilcar?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and 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.
687
buildings on the model
2
named streets
17
named places
18
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 Q1016267). 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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