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About Portahack

Portahack is a village in County Donegal, 225 km north of Dublin. It stands on the L1111 and L1121. The map gives it 213 buildings and 2 named streets, with 2 places named on them in 13 kinds, and 47 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 83th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
225 km north of Dublin
Position
55.3008° N, 7.1607° W
Roads
L1111 and L1121
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
213 buildings, 2 streets, 2 named places in 13 kinds
Drystone wall defending the Dunowen Promontory Fort in the townland of Carthage, close to Culdaff.
Drystone wall defending the Dunowen Promontory Fort in the townland of Carthage, close to Culdaff.·Andreas F. Borchert, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
View to Galavoir Point from the rocky area at the extremity of the upper promontory fort, looking north-west.
View to Galavoir Point from the rocky area at the extremity of the upper promontory fort, looking north-west.·Andreas F. Borchert, 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 47 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the L1111 and L1121 running through Portahack.

By bus or train

3 lines call at 2 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Portahack?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 225 km north of Dublin and 225 km from Dublin, on the L1111 and L1121.
How big is Portahack?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 213 buildings, 2 named streets and 2 named places, which by building count makes it the 83th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Portahack?
47 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Iron Age Promontory Fort, Bishop's Hill and Bocan Stone Circle.
How do you get to Portahack?
3 bus and train lines call 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.
213
buildings on the model
2
named streets
2
named places
13
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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