House prices in Donegal in 2017
Every sale filed for stamp duty in Donegal that year, as recorded on the Property Price Register.
The median house in Donegal sold for €100,000 in 2017, across 1,123 sales that counted.
On 2016 it rose 14.9%.
The national median that year was €200,000, so Donegal sat 50% below it.
The middle half of sales fell between €65,000 and €146,000. New builds were 11% of them. 212 further sales were set aside as not at arm’s length or recorded without the tax the buyer paid.
Dearest first
Towns in Donegal in 2017
A town appears here only where enough sales were recorded in it that year for a median to mean something, so this is shorter than the full list of towns in the county.
- Fahan€142,000 over 11 sales
- Rathmullan€135,000 over 13 sales
- Buncrana€132,500 over 54 sales
- Dunfanaghy€127,500 over 10 sales
- Dunkineely€127,000 over 12 sales
- Ballybofey€125,000 over 29 sales
- Ramelton€120,000 over 23 sales
- Donegal Town€110,000 over 39 sales
- Letterkenny€109,000 over 255 sales
- Muff€105,000 over 12 sales
- Killybegs€95,000 over 21 sales
- Stranorlar€94,500 over 10 sales
- Lifford€85,000 over 41 sales
- Raphoe€81,938 over 11 sales
- Carndonagh€81,000 over 11 sales
- Moville€75,300 over 16 sales
- Dungloe€75,000 over 13 sales
- Ardara€67,500 over 18 sales
- Convoy€67,000 over 13 sales
- Bundoran€65,250 over 62 sales
- Ballyshannon€56,250 over 37 sales
- Carrigans€45,000 over 16 sales
What this year is not
A median is the middle sale, not the average and not the value of any particular house. Where a town sold ten houses in a year, its median is one of ten numbers and moves easily. The county figure sits on far more sales and moves far less, which is why the two can tell different stories about the same year.
The register also records what was filed for stamp duty rather than what the buyer arranged, and it carries no floor area, so there is no price per square metre anywhere on this site.
The other side of it
Renting in Donegal
What rent is actually being paid in Donegal, from tenancies registered with the Residential Tenancies Board. A rent average and a sale median are two different statistics about two different sets of homes.
Where this comes from
The Property Price Register, published by the Property Services Regulatory Authority, used under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence and summarised rather than reproduced. Imported 9 September 2026.
Guides
Worth reading beside this
How to read an entry on the Property Price Register
The date is not the sale date, the address is whatever the solicitor typed, and about 15.2% of entries in our town-level comparison sample carry no Eircode. What each field means.
Why the price on the register is not what the buyer paid
About 10.4% of sales in our town-level comparison sample are filed without the VAT the buyer paid on top. A €400,000 new build appears as €352,423. How to spot one and what to add back.
What a house actually gained between two sales
1,099 properties in our town-level comparison sample have sold more than once. Matching the two sales gives a real gain on a real house, which is a different thing to a national index.