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About Killybegs

Killybegs, Na Cealla Beaga in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 157 km north of Galway, with 1,280 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the R263. The map gives it 2,305 buildings and 30 named streets, with 82 places named on them in 50 kinds, and 64 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 14th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
1,280 at the 2006 census
Where
157 km north of Galway, 202 km from Dublin
Position
54.6362° N, 8.4443° W, 1 m above sea level
Roads
R263
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
2,305 buildings, 30 streets, 82 named places in 50 kinds
Killybegs street view
Killybegs street view·Gaggy Dun, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A nice green garden, Killybegs
A nice green garden, Killybegs·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 64 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R263 running through Killybegs. 7 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: The Commons National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Killybegs?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 157 km north of Galway and 202 km from Dublin, on the R263.
How big is Killybegs?
1,280 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 2,305 buildings and 30 named streets.
What is there to see in Killybegs?
64 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Killybegs Information Centre, Killybegs Childrens Park and St. Catherine's Church (Ruins).
How do you get to Killybegs?
5 bus and train lines call at 4 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.
2,305
buildings on the model
30
named streets
82
named places
50
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 Q1741405). 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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