Carrigans An Carraigín
Village
Carrigans Location in Ireland
Coordinates: 54°57′06″N 7°25′43″W / 54.951656°N 7.428532°W / 54.951656; -7.428532
Country	Ireland
Province	Ulster
County	County Donegal
Government
• Dáil Éireann	Donegal
Population  (2016)[1]
• Urban	331
Time zone	UTC+0 (WET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-1 (IST (WEST))
Website	www.stjohnstonandcarrigans.com

Carrigans (Irish: An Carraigín, meaning 'little rock')^[2] is a village in The Laggan, a district in the east of County Donegal, Ireland. The village is located on the R236 regional road only a short distance from the River Foyle.

Carrigans was at one time^[when?] the centre of a major flax and linen producing area, possessing one of the largest flax mills in County Donegal, before the demise of the flax industry in the 1950s.^{[citation needed]} Commercial salmon fishing was also a major employer in the past.^{[citation needed]}

Killea (St. Fiach's) Parish Church (Church of Ireland) is in the village of Carrigans. ^{[citation needed]}

Carrigans once had a railway station, the village being served by the Great Northern Railway, which closed in 1965.^{[citation needed]}

The Bangalore torpedo, an explosive device used in many conflicts, was invented by Captain (later Colonel) McClintock, of Dunmore, Carrigans. ^{[citation needed]}

Carrigans was one of several Protestant villages in eastern Donegal that would have been transferred to Northern Ireland, had the recommendations of the Irish Boundary Commission been enacted in 1925.^[3]

• Dunmore House, on the edge of the village, was formerly the home of the McClintock dynasty, an Ulster-Scots family. It is now owned by Sir John McFarland, 3rd Bt.^{[citation needed]}
• Sir Jim Starritt, a former Deputy Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, was born in Carrigans.^{[citation needed]}
• The writer Dame Agatha Christie visited Carrigans on a few occasions, as a guest of the McClintocks of Dunmore, to whom she was related through marriage.^{[citation needed]}

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v t e Places in County Donegal
County town: Lifford
Towns	Ballybofey Ballyshannon Buncrana Bundoran Carndonagh Castlefin Donegal Town Dungloe Falcarragh Glenties Killybegs Letterkenny Lifford Ramelton Stranorlar
Villages	Annagry Ardara Ballindrait Ballintra Ballyliffin Bridgend Bruckless Burnfoot Burtonport Carrick Carrigans Carrigart Churchill Cloghan Clonmany Convoy Cranford Creeslough Crolly Culdaff Doochary Downings Drumkeen Dunfanaghy Dunkineely Dunlewey Fahan Fintown Frosses Glen Glencolmcille Greencastle Inver Kerrykeel Kilcar Killea Killygordon Kilmacrennan Laghy Leabgarrow Lettermacaward Loughanure Malin Malin Beg Manorcunningham Meenlaragh Milford Mountcharles Moville Muff Narin Newtowncunningham Pettigo Porthall Portnablagh Quigley's Point Raphoe Rathmullan Redcastle Rossnowlagh Shrove St Johnston Teelin Termon
Townlands	Ardagh Bunbeg Burt Carnamoyle Castleforward Demesne Clonglash Derrybeg Drumardagh Drumrainy Gartan Gortahork Kilclooney More Kincasslagh Magheroarty Meenagolan Mullaghduff Portsalon Ranafast Urris
Islands	Arranmore Cruit Eighter Glashedy Gola Inch Inishbofin Inishcoo Inishdooey Inishfree Inishkeel Inishmeane Inishsirrer Inishtrahull Owey Rathlin O'Birne Rotten Rutland Tory
Other regions	Cloughaneely Fanad Gweedore Inishowen The Rosses
List of townlands in County Donegal Category:Mountains and hills of County Donegal Category:Rivers of County Donegal Category:Geography of County Donegal