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About Meenlaragh

Meenlaragh, Mín Lárach in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 215 km north of Galway. The map gives it 879 buildings and 1 named street, with 7 places named on them in 12 kinds, and 67 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Population
453, as the map records it
Where
215 km north of Galway, 236 km from Dublin
Position
55.1447° N, 8.1867° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
879 buildings, 1 street, 7 named places in 12 kinds
Pier and slipway at Magheraroaty/Machaire Rabhartaigh, Co. Donegal
Pier and slipway at Magheraroaty/Machaire Rabhartaigh, Co. Donegal·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Meenlaragh fields and the pier for Tory Island ferries
Meenlaragh fields and the pier for Tory Island ferries·Alan Reid, 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 67 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call 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: Scoil Naomh Dubhthach.

Questions people ask

Where is Meenlaragh?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 215 km north of Galway and 236 km from Dublin.
How big is Meenlaragh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 879 buildings, 1 named street and 7 named places, which by building count makes it the 37th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Meenlaragh?
67 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Cnoc na Naomh, Lough Araughran and Loch Uí Fhearraigh.
How do you get to Meenlaragh?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Mangan Tours 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.
879
buildings on the model
1
named streets
7
named places
12
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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