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About Rossnowlagh

Rossnowlagh is a village in County Donegal, 153 km north of Galway. The map gives it 1,308 buildings and 0 named streets, with 12 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 87 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 22th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
153 km north of Galway, 185 km from Dublin
Position
54.5544° N, 8.2098° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
1,308 buildings, 0 streets, 12 named places in 20 kinds
Rossnowlagh beach - Looking north A fine February's day.
Rossnowlagh beach - Looking north A fine February's day.·Dean Molyneaux, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Sand House Hotel, Rossnowlagh Closed for the winter.
Sand House Hotel, Rossnowlagh Closed for the winter.·Dean Molyneaux, 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 87 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 3 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 Rossnowlagh?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 153 km north of Galway and 185 km from Dublin.
How big is Rossnowlagh?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 1,308 buildings, 0 named streets and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 22th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in Rossnowlagh?
87 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Coolmore Park, Cashel Hill and Lurgan Cora.
How do you get to Rossnowlagh?
1 bus and train line calls at 3 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.
1,308
buildings on the model
0
named streets
12
named places
20
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 Q2077196). 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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