Carndonagh Country Market

What to Expect

Carndonagh Country Market is held at Colgan Hall in Carndonagh, the main town of the Inishowen peninsula, on the first and third Friday of every month from 12:30pm. Like the twice-monthly market in nearby Buncrana, it belongs to Donegal’s long-standing country market tradition of small co-operative stalls trading together under one roof rather than a single outdoor row of vans and gazebos. Traders sell local crafts and produce to shoppers from Carndonagh and the surrounding Inishowen parishes, making it one of the more northerly market fixtures covered on this site, well up towards Malin Head. Carndonagh is also home to Inishowen’s livestock mart, so the town sees a steady flow of farming and rural trade through the week beyond just the country market itself.

Good to Know

• Date: Friday, August 7, 2026, from 12:30pm (first Friday of the month).
• Venue: Colgan Hall, Carndonagh, Co. Donegal.
• Price: free to browse; crafts and produce are bought individually from stallholders.
• Recurrence: held twice monthly, on the first and third Friday. The next dates after August 7 are August 21 and September 4, 2026.

Getting There

Carndonagh sits on the R238, the main road looping around the Inishowen peninsula, and is reachable from Derry and Letterkenny by Local Link and Lough Swilly bus services that stop in the town centre. Colgan Hall is within walking distance of Carndonagh’s main street, with on-street and nearby town centre parking serving visitors to the market.

The town is known locally for the Donagh Cross and other early Christian high crosses on display at the Diamond, so a market visit is easy to combine with a look at that heritage site in the town centre. Carndonagh’s twice-monthly market pattern matches the one used in Buncrana further down the peninsula, giving Inishowen two separate country market dates most months.