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County Donegal

county in Ireland
AdministrativeArea county_of_ireland Q179424

Facts

24 properties
Instance of
county of Ireland
Country
Ireland[3]
Official website
www.donegal.ie[21]
Part of
Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ulster[18][19]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 54.920°, -8.000°
Area
+4861.0[30]
Capital
Lifford[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Donegal, Glenties, Inishowen, Letterkenny, Stranorlar[10][11][12][13][14]
Described by source
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, The Nuttall Encyclopædia, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[24][25][26]
Elevation above sea level
+749[29]
Executive body
office of the Cathaoirleach of Donegal County Council[17]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: Donegal
Historic county
County Donegal
Language used
Irish[31]
Legislative body
legislative body of Donegal County Council[16]
Licence plate code
DL[20]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Ulster[2]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Border Region
Native label
Contae Dhún na nGall[28]
Office held by head of government
Cathaoirleach of Donegal County Council[23]
Population
+161137[22]
⚖ sources disagree Wikidata 161,137 GeoNames 159,192 edition 2026-09-26 · CC BY 4.0 ↗
Shares border with
County Leitrim, County Fermanagh, County Tyrone, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland[5][6][7][8][9]
Topic has template
Template:County Donegal[27]
Twinned administrative body
St. Louis[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Donnagal County en Donnagal en Co. Donnagal en County Donegal en Co Donegal en Co. Donegal en Donegal en Donnagal Co. en County Tyrconnell en County Donnagal en Donegal Co. en Tirconaill en Donegal County ar مقاطعة دونيجال ar مقاطعه دونيجال cs Donegal cs Dhún na nGall cs Contae Thír Chonaill cs County Donegal cs Contae Dhún na nGall
🔖 Identifiers · 39
VIAF cluster ID
158275447
Library of Congress authority ID
n80089417
GND ID
4235316-6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
The River Finn - geograph.org.uk - 483019.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
43810
BBC News topic ID
c907r8x8l7gt
BBC Things ID
8e8be53e-ed23-41db-90fc-1bd992edeac6
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
12405521p
Biblissima authority ID
The Beast in the Jungle
EU Knowledge Graph item ID
Louis Pasteur
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Donegal-county-Ireland
EuroVoc ID
5947
Show all 39 identifiers +27
FAST ID
1330711
FIPS 10-4 (countries and regions)
EI06
FactGrid item ID
矢賀出入口
Freebase ID
/m/0ccvd
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1502377
GeoNames ID
2964751
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7003502
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
dun-na-ngall-0
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0023167
Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID
Donegal_-_fylke_i_Irland, Donegal_-_grevskap_i_Irland
INaturalist place ID
10798
ISO 3166-2 code
IE-DL
LAU
IE01102
Logainm ID
100013
Museum-digital place ID
75533
MusicBrainz area ID
bbd67e6e-8f53-4ee2-a067-6132f817142a
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007552492205171
OHDSI ID
4073877
OpenStreetMap relation ID
4085165
RKD thesaurus ID
40391
SNARC ID
Wikidata item
Spanish Cultural Heritage thesauri ID
geografico/1203018
Topic's main category
Category:County Donegal
Vision of Britain place ID
20014
Who's on First ID
85685151
Wikishire article ID
County_Donegal
Yale LUX ID
place/b7050d2c-4224-48ea-a787-dc973ee06cfc

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🔗 Connections
← Historic county 159
County Donegal, Lifford, Gaoth Dobhair, Letterkenny, Donegal, Ballyshannon, Tory Island, Bundoran +151 more
Contained subdivisions 127
Lifford, Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal, Ballyshannon, River Foyle, Tory Island, Bundoran, Inishowen +119 more
People born here 19
Columba, Adomnán, William McGonagall, William Carr, George Bowen, John Kells Ingram, Isaac Butt, Charles Macklin +11 more
Shares border with 5
Northern Ireland, County Leitrim, County Londonderry, County Fermanagh, County Tyrone
← Shares border with 5
Northern Ireland, County Leitrim, County Londonderry, County Fermanagh, County Tyrone
Described by source 3
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The Nuttall Encyclopædia
Has these parts 2
Gleann Cholm Cille, Ailech
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from County Donegal, Category:Castles in County Donegal
Capital 1
Lifford
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from County Donegal
Country 1
Ireland
EU Knowledge Graph item ID 1
Louis Pasteur
Historic county 1
County Donegal
Instance of 1
county of Ireland
Language used 1
Irish
Legislative body 1
legislative body of Donegal County Council
Located in this place 1
Bog butter
Location 1
Ulster
Part of 1
Ulster
People who died here 1
Ethna Carbery
Residents 1
Columba
Topic has template 1
Template:County Donegal
Topic's main category 1
Category:County Donegal
Twinned administrative body 1
St. Louis
← Applies to jurisdiction 1
legislative body of Donegal County Council
← Capital of 1
Lifford
← Category's main topic 1
Category:County Donegal
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Ireland
← Indigenous to 1
Irish
← Location of creation 1
Donegal tweed
← Narrative location 1
Translations
← Place of publication 1
Goitse
← Place served by transport hub 1
Donegal Airport
← Template has topic 1
Template:County Donegal
← Twinned administrative body 1
St. Louis
← Work location 1
Willie Doherty
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Summary

County Donegal is a county of Ireland[1].

Related Entities

Adomnán Columba Donegal Ireland Louis Pasteur Milford Northern Ireland

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  14. [15] ↑ . worldtradecenter-stl.com. worldtradecenter-stl.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  18. [19] ↑ . iso.org. iso.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] ↑ . census.cso.ie. census.cso.ie. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  28. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7d ago · MacTire02 · 2026-10-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Flag image → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Ulster
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Located in the administrative territorial entity: Ulster"
  2. 14w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Category of associated people → Category:People from County Donegal
    Website → —
    Topic's main category → Category:County Donegal
    Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID → Donegal_-_fylke_i_Irland, Donegal_-_grevskap_i_Irland
    + 32 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q27331, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
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