Fintown

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title: "Fintown" 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", "townlands-of-county-donegal"] description: "Village in County Donegal, Ireland" topic_path: "general/gaeltacht-places-in-county-donegal" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fintown" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Village in County Donegal, Ireland ::

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

Field	Value
name	Fintown
native_name	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	File:Fintown.jpg
image_caption	Signage at the entrance to the village
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_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Donegal
leader_title1	Dáil Éireann
leader_name1	Donegal
unit_pref	Metric
population_density_km2	auto
coordinates
elevation_m	169
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info
footnotes	Baile na Finne is the only official name. The English name Fintown has no official status.
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::callout[type=note] Fintown in Ireland ::

|name = Fintown |native_name = ga |settlement_type = Village |image_skyline = File:Fintown.jpg |image_caption = Signage at the entrance to the village |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_type3 = County |subdivision_name3 = County Donegal |established_title = |established_date = |leader_title1 = Dáil Éireann |leader_name1 = Donegal |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_footnotes = |population_density_km2 = auto |coordinates = |elevation_footnotes = |elevation_m = 169 |blank_name = Irish Grid Reference |blank_info = |website = |footnotes = Baile na Finne is the only official name. The English name Fintown has no official status. Fintown (officially known by its Irish name, Baile na Finne) is a small village and townland on the banks of Lough Finn in County Donegal, Ireland. It is within the Gaeltacht, an Irish-speaking area, in the west of the county. Overlooked by Aghla (589m, 1961 ft) and Screig Mountains, its main attraction is an Mhuc Dhubh, the Fintown Railway (Donegal's only operational narrow gauge railway), which runs along the length of Lough Finn. The village was named after a mythological woman, Fionngheal, who drowned in the lake after attempting to save her wounded brother Feargamhain.

Demographics

As of the 2016 census, there were 88 people in the townland of Fintown, and 280 people in the electoral division of Baile na Finne (the surrounding hinterland). Of these, 59% were Irish speakers.

Gallery

File:Railway Inn, Finntown, Co Donegal - geograph.org.uk - 461118.jpg|The Railway Inn File:Fintown Railway.jpg|The Fintown Railway at Fintown station

References

References

1. "Irish Placenames Order 2004".
2. "Fintown Railway website".
3. "Fintown". County Donegal on the Net.
4. "Fintown, Donegal". Central Statistics Office.
5. (April 2016). "Sapmap Area - Electoral Division - Baile Na Finne". Central Statistics Office.

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