County Donegal
County Donegal is in Northwest Ireland and Lakelands Region and is the northernmost county in Ireland, stretching further north than any part of Northern Ireland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Gweedore and Letterkenny.
Gweedore
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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.
Letterkenny
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Letterkenny is the largest town in County Donegal, with a population of 22,500 in 2022. It's a workaday place, frankly not scenic, but with lots of accommodation and other visitor amenities.
Donegal Town
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Donegal Town is a town in County Donegal in northwest Ireland. With a population of 2700 in 2022, it's neither the county town — that's tiny Lifford — nor the county's largest - that's Letterkenny.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Ballyshannon and Tory Island.
Ballyshannon
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Ballyshannon is a market town in southern County Donegal, 22 km south of Donegal Town, and with a population of 2250 in 2022. It's by the estuary of the River Erne and in Irish it's Béal Átha Seanaidh, "the mouth of Seannach's ford".
Tory Island
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Tory Island is an island 11 km off the northwest coast of County Donegal, with a population of 119 in 2016: the community are Irish-speaking. It has scrappy remains of a monastery, but the main attraction is the remote scenery, with sea-cliffs swirling with birds.
Glenveagh National Park
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Glenveagh National Park is in the Derryveagh Mountains in County Donegal. It was established in 1984 as the third of the six National Parks of the Republic of Ireland.
Buncrana
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Buncrana is a town on Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal, on the shores of Lough Swilly. The main reason to come is to explore Inishowen Peninsula, the northern tip of the Irish mainland.
Arranmore
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Árainn Mhór or Arranmore is an island 5 km off the west coast of County Donegal. It's a Gaeltacht community where Irish is the official language though English is universally understood.
Dungloe
Dungloe is a village on the west coast of County Donegal. It's in a Gaeltacht area so its official name is the Irish An Clochan Liath - "the grey stepping stones".
Glencolmcille
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Glencolmcille is a straggle of villages on the northwest coast of County Donegal, with a population of 217 in 2016. The main settlement is also called Cashel, indicating its cluster of prehistoric and early Christian ritual sites.
Carndonagh
Carndonagh is a market town on the Inishowen Peninsula in County Donegal. With a population of less than 2800 in 2022, it's the largest settlement in the north of the peninsula, which ends at Malin Head the most northerly point on the Irish mainland.
Glenties
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Glenties is a town in the west of County Donegal, which as its name suggests is at the confluence of two scenic glens. In 2022 it was home to more than 900 people. Also described here are Ardara and the beach resort area around Portnoo and Naran.
Falcarragh
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Falcarragh is in County Donegal, the largest of a straggle of villages along the coast road, with a population of 764 in 2016. This is a Gaeltacht area where 70% speak Irish and 34% have it as their main language.
Fanad Peninsula
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Fanad Peninsula is on the north coast of County Donegal. To its east is Lough Swilly, with Inishowen Peninsula beyond. To its west is Mulroy Bay, with a pinch that is nowadays crossed by the Blaney bridge: this means that Rosguill Peninsula is easily reached, and is also described on this page.
County Donegal
- Type: county of Ireland with 159,000 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “Co Donegal”, “Co. Donegal”, “Co. Donnagal”, “County Donnagal”, “County Tyrconnell”, “Donegal”, “Donegal Co.”, “Donegal County”, “Donnagal”, “Donnagal Co.”, “Donnagal County”, and “Tirconaill”
- Neighbors: County Fermanagh, County Leitrim, County Londonderry, County Tyrone, and Northern Ireland
- Location: Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Wu Chinese—“County Donegal” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Qarku i Donegal”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة دونيجال”
- Arabic: “مقاطعة دونيغال”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه دونيجال”
- Asturian: “Condáu de Donegal”
- Basque: “Donegal konderria”
- Basque: “Donegalgo konderri”
- Basque: “Donegalgo konderria”
- Belarusian: “графства Донегал”
- Belarusian: “Донегал, графства”
- Belarusian: “Донегал”
- Belarusian: “Донэгал”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি ডোনেগাল”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Donegal”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Dún na nGall”
- Breton: “Tír Chonaill”
- Bulgarian: “Донигал”
- Catalan: “comtat de Donegal”
- Catalan: “Comtat de Donegal”
- Cebuano: “County Donegal”
- Central Kurdish: “کاونتی دۆنیگال”
- Chinese: “Donegal Kūn”
- Chinese: “多尼戈尔郡”
- Chinese: “多尼戈爾郡”
- Chinese: “当尼戈尔郡”
- Croatian: “Contae Dhún na nGall”
- Croatian: “County Donegal”
- Croatian: “Dhún na nGall”
- Czech: “Contae Dhún na nGall”
- Czech: “Contae Thír Chonaill”
- Czech: “County Donegal”
- Czech: “Dhún na nGall”
- Czech: “Donegal”
- Czech: “Hrabství Donegal”
- Czech: “Thír Chonaill”
- Danish: “County Donegal”
- Dutch: “County Donegal”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مقاطعة دونيجال”
- Esperanto: “Contae Dhún na nGall”
- Esperanto: “County Donegal”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Donegal”
- Estonian: “Donegali krahvkond”
- Finnish: “Donegalin kreivikunta”
- French: “Comte de Donegal”
- French: “comté de Donegal”
- French: “Comté de Donegal”
- French: “County Donegal”
- French: “Donegal”
- Galician: “Condado de Donegal”
- Georgian: “დონეგალის საგრაფო”
- German: “County Donegal”
- German: “Dun na nGall”
- German: “Dún na nGall”
- German: “IE-DL”
- German: “Tir Chonaill”
- German: “Tír Chonaill”
- Greek: “κομητεία Ντονεγκάλ”
- Greek: “Ντονεγκάλ”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી ડોનેગલ”
- Hebrew: “מחוז דונגל”
- Hebrew: “מחוז דניגול”
- Hindi: “काउंटी डोनेगल”
- Hungarian: “Donegal megye”
- Icelandic: “County Donegal”
- Indonesian: “County Donegal”
- Irish: “Co Dhún na nGall”
- Irish: “Co. Dhún na nGall”
- Irish: “Conallach”
- Irish: “Contae Dhún na nGall”
- Irish: “Dún na nGall”
- Irish: “Gaeltacht Dhún na nGall”
- Irish: “Thír Chonaill”
- Irish: “Thír Chónaill”
- Irish: “Thír Cónaill”
- Irish: “Tír Chonaill”
- Irish: “Tír Chónaill”
- Irish: “Tír Cónaill”
- Italian: “Contea del Donegal”
- Italian: “Contea di Donegal”
- Italian: “County Donegal”
- Italian: “Donegal”
- Japanese: “ドニゴール県”
- Japanese: “ドネゴール県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಡೊನೆಗಲ್”
- Kannada: “ಡಾನಿಗಾಲ್”
- Korean: “더니골주”
- Korean: “도네갈 주”
- Korean: “도니골 주”
- Kurdish: “County Donegal”
- Latin: “Comitatus Dungalensis”
- Latvian: “Donegolas grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Donegalas”
- Lithuanian: “Donegalo grafystė”
- Lithuanian: “Donegolo grafystė”
- Macedonian: “Донегол”
- Malay: “County Donegal”
- Malay: “Kaunti Donegal”
- Manx: “Coontae Ghoon ny Ghoal”
- Marathi: “काउंटी डोनेगल”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Donegal Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Donegal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “County Donegal”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Donegal”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Contae Dhún na nGall”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Donegal”
- Norwegian: “Donegal”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Comtat de Donegal”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Donegalscīr”
- Ossetian: “Донегол (графад)”
- Ossetian: “Донегол”
- Persian: “شهرستان دانیگول”
- Polish: “Donegal”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Donegal”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Donegal”
- Romanian: “Judeţul Donegal”
- Romanian: “Județul Donegal”
- Russian: “Графство Донегол”
- Russian: “Донегал”
- Russian: “Донегол”
- Scots: “Coontie Dunnygal”
- Scots: “Coonty Donegal”
- Scots: “Coonty Dunnygal”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Dhún na nGall”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Dhún nan Gall”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Dhùn nan Gall”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn nan Gall”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tìr Chonaill”
- Serbian: “Donegol”
- Serbian: “Донегол”
- Serbo-Croatian: “County Donegal”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Donegal”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grofovija Donegal”
- Sinhala: “ඩොනේගල් ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Donegal”
- Slovenian: “County Donegal”
- Slovenian: “Donegal”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Donegal”
- Spanish: “Condado de Donegal”
- Spanish: “Donegal Irlanda”
- Spanish: “Donegal”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Donegal”
- Swedish: “County Donegal”
- Swedish: “County Tyrconnel”
- Swedish: “Donegal”
- Tagalog: “County Donegal”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Donegol”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Донегол”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Донегорл”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி டோனெகல்”
- Telugu: “డొనెగల్ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “ดอนิกอล”
- Tok Pisin: “Kaunti Donegal”
- Turkish: “Co Dhún na nGall”
- Turkish: “Co Donegal”
- Turkish: “Co. Dhún na nGall”
- Turkish: “Co. Donegal”
- Turkish: “Conallach”
- Turkish: “Contae Dhún na nGall”
- Turkish: “County Donegal”
- Turkish: “Donegal Co.”
- Turkish: “Donegal County”
- Turkish: “Donegal ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Donegal Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Dún na nGall”
- Turkish: “Gaeltacht Dhún na nGall”
- Turkish: “IE-DL”
- Turkish: “Tír Chonaill”
- Ukrainian: “графство Донегол”
- Ukrainian: “Донегал”
- Ukrainian: “Донегол (графство)”
- Ukrainian: “Донегол”
- Ukrainian: “Донеґол”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی ڈانیگول”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Donegal”
- Vlaams: “County Donegal”
- Welsh: “Swydd Donegal”
- Western Panjabi: “دونیگل”
- Wu Chinese: “多尼戈尔郡”
- “County Donegal”
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