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Donegal Town

Donegal Town is a town in 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.
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  • Type: Town with 2,750 residents
  • Description: town in the Donegal County, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Donegal”
Photo: Kanchelskis, Public domain.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Donegal Castle and Donegal Railway Heritage Centre.

Museum
Photo: Benson Wills, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a castle situated in the centre of Donegal Town in in , the northern province in Ireland. The castle was the stronghold of the O'Donnell clan, Lords of Tír Conaill and one of the most powerful Gaelic families in Ireland from the 5th to the 16th centuries.

Museum
Photo: louise price, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The commemorates the operations of the County Donegal Railways Committee which operated two narrow-gauge railways in from 1863 until 1959.

Ruins
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a ruined Franciscan Priory in Donegal in Ireland. It was constructed by the O'Donnell dynasty in the fifteenth century and remained a center of Classical Christian education even after its destruction during the Nine Years War.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Laghy.

Village
Photo: Dennis Reynolds, CC BY-SA 2.0.
or Laghey is a village and townland in , , between and Donegal Town. It is one of three villages that make up the parish of Drumholm, formerly a civil and parish, now only used as a division of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Raphoe. is situated 4½ km south of Donegal Town.

Donegal Town

Latitude
54.6538° or 54° 39′ 14″ north
Longitude
-8.1103° or 8° 6′ 37″ west
Population
2,750
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
IATA airport code
CFN
United Nations Location Code
IE CFN
Open location code
9C6HMV3Q+GV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52229918
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2964752
Wiki­data ID
Q855330
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Donegal Town” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “دونيجال”
  • Armenian: “Դոնեգոլ”
  • Asturian: “Donegal”
  • Basque: “Donegal”
  • Belarusian: “Донегал”
  • Belarusian: “Донэгал”
  • Breton: “Dún na nGall”
  • Bulgarian: “Донигал”
  • Catalan: “Donegal”
  • Cebuano: “Donegal”
  • Chinese: “多內加爾郡”
  • Chinese: “多尼戈尔”
  • Chinese: “多尼戈爾”
  • Czech: “Donegal”
  • Danish: “Donegal”
  • Dutch: “Donegal Town”
  • Dutch: “Donegal”
  • Dutch: “Dun na nGall”
  • Dutch: “Dún na nGall”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “دونيجال”
  • Esperanto: “Donegal”
  • Finnish: “Donegal”
  • French: “Donegal”
  • Galician: “Donegal”
  • Galician: “Dún na nGall”
  • German: “Donegal”
  • Greek: “Ντονεγκάλ”
  • Hebrew: “דונגל”
  • Hungarian: “Donegal”
  • Irish: “Dún na nGall”
  • Italian: “Donegal Town”
  • Japanese: “ドニゴール”
  • Japanese: “ドネガル”
  • Korean: “도니골”
  • Latin: “Dungalia”
  • Manx: “Doon ny Ghoal”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Donegal”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Donegal”
  • Norwegian: “Donegal”
  • Ossetian: “Донегол (сахар)”
  • Ossetian: “Донегол”
  • Polish: “Donegal”
  • Portuguese: “Donegal”
  • Russian: “Донегол”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dun na nGall”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Dùn na nGall”
  • Slovak: “Donegal”
  • Spanish: “Donegal Town”
  • Spanish: “Donegal”
  • Swedish: “Donegal”
  • Ukrainian: “Донегол”
  • Urdu: “ڈونیگل (قصبہ)”
  • Urdu: “ڈونیگل”
  • Welsh: “Donegal”
  • Welsh: “Dún na nGall”
  • Western Frisian: “Donegal”
  • “Donegal”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Donegal Town”. Photo: alphageek, CC BY-SA 2.0.