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About Mountcharles

Mountcharles, Moin Séarlas in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 162 km north of Galway. It stands on the N56. The map gives it 1,021 buildings and 11 named streets, with 11 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 74 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 30th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
162 km north of Galway, 192 km from Dublin
Position
54.6464° N, 8.1956° W
Roads
N56
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
1,021 buildings, 11 streets, 11 named places in 17 kinds
Main Street, Mountcharles, Co. Donegal
Main Street, Mountcharles, Co. Donegal·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Main Street, Mountcharles, Co. Donegal
Main Street, Mountcharles, Co. Donegal·P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Mountcharles in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the fifteenth century to 1934. That is not a history of Mountcharles, 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 fifteenth century1934Donegal Franciscan AbbeyFour Masters Memorial
The fifteenth century
The twentieth 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 74 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N56 running through Mountcharles.

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: Saint Peter's National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Mountcharles?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 162 km north of Galway and 192 km from Dublin, on the N56.
How big is Mountcharles?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,021 buildings, 11 named streets and 11 named places, which by building count makes it the 30th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Mountcharles?
74 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Saint Peter's Lough, Saint Peter's Lough and Glenconagh Lough.
How do you get to Mountcharles?
2 bus and train lines call at 2 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann 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.
1,021
buildings on the model
11
named streets
11
named places
17
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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