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Pages in category "Towns and villages in County Donegal" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
This is a sortable table of the approximately 2,787 townlands in County Donegal, Ireland. [1] [2] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county. Names marked in bold typeface are towns and villages, and the word Town appears for those entries in the Acres column.
County Donegal (/ ˌ d ʌ n ɪ ˈ ɡ ɔː l, ˌ d ɒ n-, ˈ d ɒ n ɪ ɡ ɔː l / DUN-ig-AWL, DON-, DON-ig-awl; [6] Irish: Contae Dhún na nGall) [7] is a county of Ireland in the province of Ulster and in the Northern and Western Region. It is named after the town of Donegal in the south of the county.
Letterkenny is the largest town in County Donegal. Despite having a long tradition of emigration that continued until the early 1990s, Letterkenny has since had net immigration. The recent immigrants include people from Central Europe, Africa, and Asia.
The Grianán of Aileach is a stone fort on the Inishowen peninsula. Buncrana is the largest town in Inishowen and the second largest in County Donegal. Ptolemy's Geography (2nd century) described a point called Ουεννικνιον (Wenniknion, perhaps from *wen- "friends") which probably referred to Inishowen.
Kilmacrennan lies on the N56 road, 9 km northwest of Letterkenny which is the largest town in County Donegal. The village's name 'Cill Mhic nÉanáin' means 'the church of the sons of Éanán'. Two rivers flow through the village, the Lennon and the Lurgy. Traditionally, the river Lennon was renowned for salmon fishing; however, the salmon ...
Dublin, the capital of Ireland. This is a list of urban areas in the Republic of Ireland by population.In 2022, the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage and Tailte Éireann created of a new unit of urban geography called Built Up Areas (BUAs) which were used to produce data for urban areas in the 2022 census of Ireland.
The town sits on the eastern shores of Lough Swilly, being 23 kilometres (14 mi) northwest of Derry and 43 kilometres (27 mi) north of Letterkenny. [3] In the 2022 census, the population was 6,971, [1] making it the second most populous town in County Donegal, after Letterkenny, and the largest in Inishowen.