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About Lifford

Lifford, Leifear in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 183 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the A38, A5 and B49. The map gives it 5,495 buildings and 109 named streets, with 255 places named on them in 106 kinds, and 49 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
183 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.8327° N, 7.4835° W, 6 m above sea level
Area
1.18 km²
Roads
A38, A5, B49, B72 and B85
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
5,495 buildings, 109 streets, 255 named places in 106 kinds

Lifford in order

5 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the nineteenth century to 2003. That is not a history of Lifford, 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.

the nineteenth century2003Christ ChurchHoly Cross College
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
  • 1946HeatonsClothes shops · 860 m from the centre
The twenty-first century

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 49 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the A38, A5, B49, B72 and B85 running through Lifford. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

7 lines call at 6 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

9 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Lifford?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 183 km north-west of Dublin and 183 km from Dublin, on the A38, A5 and B49.
How big is Lifford?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 5,495 buildings, 109 named streets and 255 named places, which by building count makes it the 3th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Lifford?
49 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Millennium Milepost, Second World War Memorial and Abercorn Factory.
How do you get to Lifford?
7 bus and train lines call at 6 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, John McGinley Coach Travel 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.
5,495
buildings on the model
109
named streets
255
named places
106
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 Q844546). 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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