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About Portnablagh

Portnablagh, Port na Bláiche in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 224 km north of Galway. The map gives it 1,048 buildings and 0 named streets, with 17 places named on them in 17 kinds, and 110 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 28th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
224 km north of Galway, 230 km from Dublin
Position
55.1781° N, 7.9294° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
1,048 buildings, 0 streets, 17 named places in 17 kinds
Drone photo of Sessiagh Lake which has a Crannog
Drone photo of Sessiagh Lake which has a Crannog·Donegal Paddy, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Killahoey Beach
Killahoey Beach·Alistair Cunningham, CC BY 3.0 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 110 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

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 Portnablagh?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 224 km north of Galway and 230 km from Dublin.
How big is Portnablagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,048 buildings, 0 named streets and 17 named places, which by building count makes it the 28th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Portnablagh?
110 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Polduce, Sessagh Lake and Sandhill Mass Rock.
How do you get to Portnablagh?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
1,048
buildings on the model
0
named streets
17
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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