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About Raphoe

Raphoe, Ráth Bhoth in Irish, is a town in County Donegal, 191 km north-west of Dublin. It stands on the R236. The map gives it 2,318 buildings and 5 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 27 kinds, and 47 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
191 km north-west of Dublin
Position
54.8735° N, 7.5995° W
Roads
R236
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
2,318 buildings, 5 streets, 21 named places in 27 kinds
William Street, Raphoe
William Street, Raphoe·Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Raphoe Second Raphoe Presbyterian Church 2016 09 02
Raphoe Second Raphoe Presbyterian Church 2016 09 02·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 R236 running through Raphoe.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 4 lines call at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Royal and Prior Comprehensive School.

Questions people ask

Where is Raphoe?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 191 km north-west of Dublin and 191 km from Dublin, on the R236.
How big is Raphoe?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 2,318 buildings, 5 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Raphoe?
47 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Difflin Lake, Oakfield Park and Walled Garden.
How do you get to Raphoe?
4 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and TFI Local Link Donegal Sligo Leitrim. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Donegal grown or shrunk?
The census counted 296,448 people in the county in 1841 and 167,084 in 2022.
2,318
buildings on the model
5
named streets
21
named places
27
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 (item Q1025561). 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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