St Johnston
Baile Suingean | |
|---|---|
Village | |
 Main Street, St Johnston | |
  St Johnston Location in Ireland | |
| Coordinates: 54°56′05″N 07°27′30″W / 54.93472°N 7.45833°W | |
| Country | Ireland |
| Province | Ulster |
| County | County Donegal |
| Barony | Raphoe North[1] |
| Government | |
| • Dáil constituency | Donegal |
| Population | 523 |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (WET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-1 (IST (WEST)) |
| Website | stjohnstonandcarrigans |
St Johnston, officially Saint Johnstown[3] (Irish: Baile Suingean[3]), is a village, townland, and an electoral division in County Donegal, Ireland.[3] It is in the Laggan district of East Donegal on the left bank of the River Foyle.[4] It is in the civil parish of Taughboyne and barony of Raphoe North,[3] on the R236 (Lifford–Newtowncunningham) road where it overlaps the R265 (Carrigans–Raphoe) road.[5] The village is about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of Derry.
- ^ "Barony of Raphoe North, Co. Donegal". townlands.ie.
- ^ "Census 2016 Sapmap Area: Settlements St. Johnston". Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 17 June 2018.
- ^ a b c d "Saint Johnstown: townland, town". Placenames Database of Ireland. Retrieved 25 July 2013.
- ^ Lewis, Samuel (1837). "Johnstown (St)". A topographical dictionary of Ireland.
- ^ Roads Act, 1993 (Declaration of Regional Roads) Order 1994 (S.I. No. 400 of 1994). Signed on 2 December 1994. Statutory Instrument of the Government of Ireland. Retrieved from Irish Statute Book on 23 May 2022.