An Fál Carrach (Irish)
Falcarragh | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 The crossroads on Main Street | |
  An Fál Carrach (Irish) Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 55°08′11″N 8°06′18″W / 55.136402°N 8.104906°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Barony | Kilmacrenan |
| District | Cloughaneely |
| Government | |
| • Dáil Éireann | Donegal |
| • EU Parliament | Midlands–North-West |
| Population | 764 |
| Area code | 074 (+353 74) |
| Irish Grid Reference | B952329 |
| An Fál Carrach is the only official name. The anglicised spelling Falcarragh, by which the settlement is usually known, has no official status. | |
An Fál Carrach[2] (anglicised as Falcarragh), sometimes called Na Crois Bhealaí ('The Crossroads'), is a small Gaeltacht town and townland in the north-west of County Donegal in Ulster, the northern province in Ireland. The settlement is in the district and old parish of Cloughaneely.
- ^ "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements An Fál Carrach". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 5 June 2018.
- ^ Placenames (Ceantair Ghaeltachta) Order 2004. As to the meaning of the name, see Deirdre and Laurence Flanagan, Irish Place Names, Gill & Macmillan, 2002.