Dunlewy
Dún Lúiche, known in English as Dunlewey or Dunlewy, is a small Gaeltacht village in the Gweedore district in the north-west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet with 3,400 residents
- Description: village in County Donegal, Ireland
- Also known as: “Dún Lúiche” and “Dunlewey”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Errigal Mountain and Mackoght.
Errigal Mountain
Peak
Photo: Patrice78500, Public domain.
Errigal is a 751-metre mountain near Gweedore in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the tallest peak of the Derryveagh Mountains and the tallest peak in County Donegal.
Mackoght
Peak
Photo: Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mackoght or Macoght, also called Little Errigal or Wee Errigal, is a 555 metres high mountain in County Donegal, Ireland. Mackoght is situated 2½ km northeast of Dunlewy.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gweedore.
Gweedore
Photo: Yodaspirine, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gaoth Dobhair or Gweedore is an Irish-speaking area on the northwest corner of County Donegal. Its main settlements are Bunbeg and Derrybeg on the coast, Brinlack further north, and Dunlewey inland, with a population of 4065 in 2003.
Dunlewy
- Categories: human settlement, Gaeltacht, and locality
- Location: County Donegal, Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.02084° or 55° 1′ 15″ northLongitude
-8.11233° or 8° 6′ 44″ westPopulation
3,400Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)Open location code
9C7H2VCQ+83OpenStreetMap ID
node 9805905051OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
2964503Wikidata ID
Q5315434
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Turkish—“Dunlewy” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Dún Lúiche”
- Cebuano: “Dunlewy”
- Dutch: “Dunlewey”
- Dutch: “Dunlewy”
- French: “Dunlewey”
- Irish: “Dún Lúiche”
- Russian: “Дун Лухе”
- Swedish: “Dunlewy”
- Turkish: “Dunlewey”
- “Dún Lúiche”
Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Dunlewey Church of Ireland and Dermot & Grania’s Bed.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Dunlewy”. Photo: Gerd Eichmann, CC BY-SA 4.0.