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About West Town

West Town, An Baile Thiar in Irish, is a village in County Donegal, 228 km north of Galway. The map gives it 235 buildings and 3 named streets, with 28 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 21 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 80th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.

Where
228 km north of Galway, 248 km from Dublin
Position
55.2650° N, 8.2273° W
Governed
Donegal County Council, in the province of Ulster
On the model
235 buildings, 3 streets, 28 named places in 22 kinds
A view of Tory Island harbour.
A view of Tory Island harbour.·Rossographer, 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 21 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

2 school or colleges on the map: Coláiste Phobail Cholmcille and Scoil Naomh Cholmcille.

Questions people ask

Where is West Town?
In County Donegal, in the province of Ulster, 228 km north of Galway and 248 km from Dublin.
How big is West Town?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 235 buildings, 3 named streets and 28 named places, which by building count makes it the 80th largest of the 86 settlements this site covers in County Donegal.
What is there to see in West Town?
21 things the map records in and around it, the closest being An Chros Tau, Móirsheisear and Fochla Thiar.
How do you get to West Town?
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.
235
buildings on the model
3
named streets
28
named places
22
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 Q13156805). 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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