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About Malin Beg

Malin Beg, Málainn Bhig in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 156 km north of Galway. It stands on the R263. The map gives it 130 buildings and 3 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 14 kinds, and 77 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 86th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
156 km north of Galway, 221 km from Dublin
Position
54.6684° N, 8.7818° W
Roads
R263
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
130 buildings, 3 streets, 11 named places in 14 kinds
Malin BegTrabane Bay 2 geograph 3184006 by Ben Brooksbank
Malin BegTrabane Bay 2 geograph 3184006 by Ben Brooksbank·Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
A horse-shoe shaped beach situated at Malin Beg, near Glencolmcille (County Donegal, Ireland)
A horse-shoe shaped beach situated at Malin Beg, near Glencolmcille (County Donegal, Ireland)·Einaz80, 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 77 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R263 running through Malin Beg. 2 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Malin Beg?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 156 km north of Galway and 221 km from Dublin, on the R263.
How big is Malin Beg?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 130 buildings, 3 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 86th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Malin Beg?
77 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Silver Strand Viewpoint, Ocean Viewpoint and Poll na Móna.
How do you get to Malin Beg?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable. By road it is on the R263.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
130
buildings on the model
3
named streets
11
named places
14
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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