Back Фалкара Bulgarian An Fál Carrach Catalan Falcarragh CEB An Fál Carrach German An Fál Carrach (Falcarragh, Cross Roads) Spanish An Fál Carrach Basque فالکاراق Persian An Fál Carrach Irish An Fál Carrach GV An Fál Carrach Dutch
An Fál Carrach (Irish)
Falcarragh | |
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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.