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Ireland Gazeteer

County Donegal in 1837  

DONEGAL, a maritime county of the province of Ulster in Ireland; bounded east and south on the inland side by parts of the counties of Londonderry, Tyrone, Fermanagh, and Leitrim; and on the south-west, west, and north, by the Atlantic Ocean. Greatest length from Inishowen head on the north-east, to Malin Beg head (sometimes called Teelin head,) on the south-west, 85 statute miles; greatest breadth from Fearn-hill on the south-east to Horn Head on the north-west, 41 statute miles. Area according to Ordnance survey of Ireland, consists of—  

Land 1,170,335 acres

Water 23,107 acres

Total 1,193,442 acres.

Or, about 1865 square miles.

Gross population in 1831, 289,149.