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About Loughanure

Loughanure, Loch an Iúir in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 198 km north of Galway. The map gives it 629 buildings and 1 named street, with 7 places named on them in 11 kinds, and 207 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 58th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
412, as the map records it
Where
198 km north of Galway, 226 km from Dublin
Position
54.9972° N, 8.2908° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
629 buildings, 1 street, 7 named places in 11 kinds
Loughanure is a lake, and a village named after it, in the Rosses, County Donegal, Ireland
Loughanure is a lake, and a village named after it, in the Rosses, County Donegal, Ireland·Scolaire, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Loch an Iúir (Loughanure), Donegal, ÉIRE
Loch an Iúir (Loughanure), Donegal, ÉIRE·MaxPride, 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 207 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Loughanure; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls 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: Coláiste Mhuire.

Questions people ask

Where is Loughanure?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 198 km north of Galway and 226 km from Dublin.
How big is Loughanure?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 629 buildings, 1 named street and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 58th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Loughanure?
207 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Loch an Iúir, Lough Naglagury and Lough Connell.
How do you get to Loughanure?
1 bus and train line calls at 2 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.
629
buildings on the model
1
named streets
7
named places
11
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. 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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