Send flowers to Donegal, town and county

Donegal town sits where the River Eske runs into Donegal Bay, with the Blue Stack Mountains behind it and the old O'Donnell castle on the riverbank. It is a small place, home to about 2,750 people, built around a square known as the Diamond. Most people who search for flowers to Donegal, though, mean the county: the northernmost in Ireland, the fourth-largest by area and home to around 167,000 people spread over coast, bog and mountain.

Delivery across County Donegal

Lifford is the county town, but Letterkenny is by far the biggest town, with just under 20,000 people. Bouquets also go to Buncrana and the rest of the Inishowen peninsula, to Ballybofey and Stranorlar in the Finn Valley, to Bundoran and Ballyshannon in the south and to Dungloe, Gweedore and Falcarragh in the Gaeltacht of the west. Donegal has one of the lowest population densities in the country and more than 2,700 townlands, so many rural addresses have no house number at all. Enter the seven-character Eircode, the townland and a landmark if you know one, plus a mobile number in case the lane is hard to find. A remote address may be reached later in the delivery round than one in town.

Hospitals and funerals

The main acute hospital for the county is Letterkenny University Hospital. Several Irish hospital groups now discourage fresh flowers on wards, so ask first. In Donegal, as elsewhere in Ireland, the funeral is usually held a couple of days after the death, often with a wake in the family home beforehand. If the notice asks for family flowers only, a bouquet to the house a little later is the gentler choice.

Did you know? Donegal town gave its name to the county, yet the county town is Lifford and the largest town is Letterkenny.