Carrigart

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title: "Carrigart" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["gaeltacht-places-in-county-donegal", "gaeltacht-towns-and-villages", "towns-and-villages-in-county-donegal"] description: "Gaeltacht village in County Donegal, Ireland" topic_path: "general/gaeltacht-places-in-county-donegal" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrigart" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Gaeltacht village in County Donegal, Ireland ::

::data[format=table title="Infobox settlement"]

Field	Value
official_name	Carraig Airt
other_name	Carrigart
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Carraigairt.JPG
image_caption	Carrigart Main Street
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	left
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Ulster
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	County Donegal
subdivision_type3	Barony
subdivision_name3	Kilmacrenan
unit_pref	Metric
population_as_of	2022
population_footnotes
population_total	294
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
area_code	074, +00 353 74
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info
footnotes	Carraig Airt is the only official name. The anglicised spelling Carrigart has no official status.
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|official_name = Carraig Airt |other_name = Carrigart |settlement_type = Village |image_skyline = Carraigairt.JPG |image_caption = Carrigart Main Street |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_label_position = left |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = Ireland |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = Ulster |subdivision_type2 = County |subdivision_name2 = County Donegal |subdivision_type3 = Barony |subdivision_name3 = Kilmacrenan |established_title = |established_date = |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = 2022 |population_footnotes = |population_total = 294 |population_density_km2 = auto |coordinates = |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = |area_code = 074, +00 353 74 |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = |website = |footnotes = Carraig Airt is the only official name. The anglicised spelling Carrigart has no official status. Carraig Airt (anglicised as Carrigart or Carrickart) is a small Gaeltacht village in the barony of Kilmacrenan in the north of County Donegal, Ireland. The village is on the R245 route between Letterkenny and Creeslough. The Loughnambraddan Burn flows through the village and empties into Mulroy Bay at Carrigart.

Situated as it is at the base of the Rosguill peninsula, in one of the more remote but most scenic parts of the country, the village provides services for a large hinterland, with a supermarket with banking facilities, a post office, a doctor's surgery and a barracks staffed part-time by the Garda Síochána. Carrigart has a public park that borders the shoreline behind the houses on the main street. Designed by Angela Gallagher, it is maintained by the Tidy Towns Committee and has won several awards. The village and its environs remain largely agricultural, relying on passing trade and tourism during the summer months. In common with the rest of this part of Donegal, Carrigart has many second homes, owned especially by Northern Irish holiday makers.

The village, which celebrated its centenary in 2002, although there is evidence of Carrigart's existence for longer than that, originally formed part of the estates of the Earls of Leitrim, nearby Mulroy House being one of their seats. The 3rd Earl of Leitrim was assassinated in nearby Cratlagh Wood in 1878 by men from the neighbouring peninsula of Fanad.

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Carrigart had a fair day on 21 June. The town now hosts a festival that runs from 8 to 14 August.

The official name given to Carrigart is Carraig Airt but it has also been translated as Ceathrú Fhiodhghoirt, meaning Quarterland of the Wood of the Field

References

References

1. "Census Interactive Map – Towns: Carraig Airt". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
2. [http://www.commissioner.ie/downloads/An_tOrdu_Logainmneacha_(Ceantair_Ghaeltachta)_2004.pdf Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004].
3. "Carraig Airt/Carrickart". [[Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
4. ''Discovery Series'' Sheet 2 (4th Edition). [[Ordnance Survey of Ireland. O.S.I.]], [[Dublin]], 2012.
5. Statistical Survey of the County of Donegal with Observations on the Means of Improvement, Drawn up in the year 1801, For the consideration and under the direction of The Dublin Society, by James McParlan M.D.
6. Deirdre and Laurence Flanagan, ''Irish Place Names'', Gill & Macmillan, 2002.

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