Main Street

County Donegal


Letterkenny's long, sloping main street is graced by a cute little market square halfway down. This is the most attractive part of the town, with a terrace of red-brick Georgian houses at the top, one of which was a holiday retreat of Maud Gonne, actress, revolutionary and lover of poet WB Yeats.


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Nearby County Donegal attractions

1. Donegal County Museum

0.52 MILES

Letterkenny's 19th-century workhouse, built to provide Famine relief, now houses the local museum. The permanent collection offers 8000-plus artefacts…

2. Newmills Corn & Flax Mills

3.09 MILES

Parts of this complex date back four centuries to a time when water was the main source of power for multiple tasks, such as grinding grain. One of…

3. Old Tullyaughnish Church

7.14 MILES

The roofless ruins of 17th-century Old Tullyaugnish Church are special because of the Romanesque carvings in the eastern wall, taken from a far older…

4. Colmcille Heritage Centre

7.25 MILES

Colmcille's Hall of Fame is this comprehensive heritage centre on the shore of Lough Gartan in a wooded grove, with a lavish display on the production of…

5. Glebe House & Gallery

7.68 MILES

The English painter Derrick Hill bought this 1828 mansion in 1953, providing him with a mainland base close to his beloved Tory Island. Sumptuously…

6. St Colmcille's Abbey & Birthplace

8.21 MILES

The 10th-century ruins of Colmcille's abbey lie on a hillside to the north of Lough Gartan and northwest of Lough Nacally, beside a 16th-century chapel…

7. Glenveagh National Park

10.89 MILES

Lakes shimmer like dew in the mountainous valley of Glenveagh National Park. Alternating between great knuckles of rock, green-gold swaths of bog and…

8. Glenveagh Castle

11 MILES

This castle was modelled on Scotland's Balmoral Castle. Henry McIlhenny made it a characterful home with liberal reminders of his passion for deer…

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