Glenties

Glenties
Na Gleannta
Town
Main street in Glenties
Main street in Glenties
Glenties is located in Ireland
Glenties
Glenties
Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 54°47′51″N 8°16′57″W / 54.7975°N 8.2825°W / 54.7975; -8.2825
CountryIreland
ProvinceUlster
CountyCounty Donegal
Government
 • Dáil ÉireannDonegal
 • EU ParliamentMidlands–North-West
Elevation
78 m (256 ft)
Population927
Time zoneUTC+0 (WET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+1 (IST (WEST))
Irish Grid ReferenceG818944

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]

  1. ^ a b "Census Mapping - Towns: Glenties - Population Snapshot". visual.cso.ie. Central Statistics Office (Ireland). Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  2. ^ "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.

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