Glenties
Na Gleannta | |
|---|---|
Town | |
 Main street in Glenties | |
  Glenties Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 54°47′51″N 8°16′57″W / 54.7975°N 8.2825°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Government | |
| • Dáil Éireann | Donegal |
| • EU Parliament | Midlands–North-West |
| Elevation | 78 m (256 ft) |
| Population | 927 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Irish Grid Reference | G818944 |
Glenties (Irish: Na Gleannta, meaning 'the glens')[2] is a town in County Donegal, Ireland. It is situated where two glens meet, north-west of the Bluestack Mountains, near the confluence of two rivers. Glenties is the largest centre of population in the parish of Iniskeel. Glenties has won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition five times in 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1995. As of the 2022 census, the population was 927.[1]
- ^ a b "Census Mapping - Towns: Glenties - Population Snapshot". visual.cso.ie. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ "Na Gleannta/Glenties". Placenames Database of Ireland. Government of Ireland – Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht and Dublin City University. Archived from the original on 5 April 2016. Retrieved 5 June 2018.