Falcarragh
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: MaxPride, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 860 residents
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “An Fál Carrach”, “Crossroads”, and “Falcaragh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ray Church and Cloughaneely GAA.
Ray Church
Ruins
Photo: Sarahsayers, CC BY 4.0.
Ray Church is a medieval church and National Monument in County Donegal, Ireland.
Cloughaneely GAA
CLG Chloich Cheann Fhaola is a Gaelic football and handball club for the parish of Cloughaneely, County Donegal, Ireland. The club is based in Falcarragh.Pobalscoil Chloich Cheannfhaola
School
Pobalscoil Chloich Cheannfhaola, also known as PCC Falcarragh, is a voluntary/state-funded, coeducational, inter-denominational secondary school in Falcarragh, County Donegal, Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gortahork and Magheraroarty.
Gortahork
Village
Photo: Ross, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Magheraroarty
Hamlet
Photo: Sleepyhead2, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Machaire Rabhartaigh, meaning "plain of the spring tide/plain of Roarty", is a Gaeltacht village and townland on the north-west coast of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. Magheraroarty is situated 4½ km west of Falcarragh.
Falcarragh
- Categories: human settlement, Gaeltacht, and locality
- Location: County Donegal, Ulster, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
55.1364° or 55° 8′ 11″ northLongitude
-8.104° or 8° 6′ 15″ westPopulation
860Elevation
53 metres (174 feet)Open location code
9C7H4VPW+H9OpenStreetMap ID
node 52230659OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2964973Wikidata ID
Q177525
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Urdu—“Falcarragh” goes by many names.
- Basque: “An Fál Carrach”
- Bulgarian: “Фалкара”
- Catalan: “An Fál Carrach”
- Cebuano: “Falcarragh”
- Dutch: “An Fál Carrach”
- German: “An Fál Carrach”
- German: “Falcarragh”
- Irish: “An Fál Carrach”
- Manx: “An Fál Carrach”
- Persian: “فالکاراق”
- Russian: “Фалкарра”
- Spanish: “An Fál Carrach”
- Swedish: “An Fál Carrach”
- Swedish: “Falcarragh”
- Turkish: “Falcarragh”
- Ukrainian: “Фалькарраг”
- Urdu: “فالکاراغ”
- “An Fál Carrach”
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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 “Falcarragh”. Photo: MaxPride, CC BY-SA 3.0.