County Donegal

Buncrana Heritage Trail

Buncrana Heritage Trail is a waymarked route in County Donegal, 3.9 km along the line OpenStreetMap draws.

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3.9 km

as this site, measured along the drawn line has it

3.9 km

measured on the map

Distance: Nobody publishes one that this site has found3.9 km measured along the line the map draws
Shape: Point to point
Network: Local waymarked route
County: County Donegal
On the map: OpenStreetMap relation/15425059

The route will draw when you reach it.

Buncrana Heritage Trail in dark green, with the other routes from the same place behind it in grey. The line comes in 3 pieces because the ways drawn for it do not meet; the gaps are left as gaps.

The other routes from the same place

These start within eight hundred metres of the same point and share parts of their length. The arrows are what tell them apart on the ground, so each is named with its colour here rather than shown only in it.

Route	Waymark	Published	Measured	Shape
Buncrana Heritage Trail	Not recorded	None	3.9 km	One way
Swan Park Walk	Not recorded	None	1.2 km	One way
Buncrana Shore Path Coastal Walk	Not recorded	2.3 km	3 km	One way

Getting to Buncrana Heritage Trail

About these directions

Public transport times come from National Transport Authority. Timetables cover 2026-09-18 to 2027-09-19. These are scheduled services; check with the operator for cancellations and changes before travelling.

Walking and driving times are estimates. A town search starts at its centre; choose your location or a point on the map for a more precise starting point. Eircode search is not available.

How journey planning works

Destination, access and nearby stops

Buncrana Heritage Trail is in Buncrana, County Donegal. Routes here end at the start of the trail.

The nearest settlement this site covers is Buncrana, 550 m from where the line begins, in a straight line. The journeys below are worked out to the start of the walk itself, so the last stretch is measured rather than left to you.

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Stops near it

The nearest scheduled stop is Buncrana (10737), 320 m away in a straight line. Use the planner to check walking connections for your journey.

Buncrana 320 m
buses 959, 976 and 951
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Cockhill Rd 330 m
buses 933, 933A and 964
Scheduled departures from this stop
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Cockhill Road 330 m
bus 964
Scheduled departures from this stop
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Ballymacarry 1.3 km
bus 976
Scheduled departures from this stop
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Cockhill 1.8 km
bus 976
Scheduled departures from this stop
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Getting to Buncrana covers the journeys into the town itself.

Questions people ask

How long is Buncrana Heritage Trail?

Measured along the line OpenStreetMap draws, 3.9 km. No published figure has been found for it.

Where does Buncrana Heritage Trail start?

The map does not name a start. The line begins 550 m from Buncrana, which is where the map is drawn from rather than a waymarked trailhead.

Is this the same as the other walks from here?

No. 3 waymarked routes start within eight hundred metres of the same point: Buncrana Heritage Trail at 3.9 km, Swan Park Walk at 1.2 km, Buncrana Shore Path Coastal Walk at 3 km. They share parts of their length and are told apart by the arrows, so the one you follow is the one whose colour you keep to.

Why is the line broken on the map?

The route comes back from OpenStreetMap in 3 pieces, which means the ways somebody drew for it do not meet end to end. The gaps are left as gaps here rather than bridged with a straight line, because a line drawn across a gap is an invitation to walk where there is no path. On the ground the route is almost certainly continuous; the map is what is incomplete.

Is it open today?

This page holds no closure notice for it, which is not the same as knowing it is open. Cliff paths and forest routes close after storms and during works, and those notices are published by the operator rather than on the map. The link above goes to whoever manages it.

Where this comes from

The route: The line, the name, the colour and the waymark are the OpenStreetMap relation relation/15425059, and can be corrected there.
Worked out here: The measured distance, whether the line is continuous, which settlement is nearest the start and every distance on this page are this site’s own calculations from that relation, last built on 2026-09-20. No climb is measured here, and no time is estimated: a walking time appears only where an operator publishes one.