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About Maghery

Maghery, An Machaire in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 188 km north of Galway. The map gives it 364 buildings and 0 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 11 kinds, and 164 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 75th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
188 km north of Galway, 226 km from Dublin
Position
54.9294° N, 8.4419° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
364 buildings, 0 streets, 12 named places in 11 kinds
View from Maghery Pier
View from Maghery Pier·Mhdelaney, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Seagull on Rock
Seagull on Rock·Mhdelaney, 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 164 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Roshine National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Maghery?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 188 km north of Galway and 226 km from Dublin.
How big is Maghery?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 364 buildings, 0 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 75th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Maghery?
164 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Maghery Lough, Termon Stone Circle and Templecrone.
How do you get to Maghery?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop 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.
364
buildings on the model
0
named streets
12
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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