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About Mountshannon

Mountshannon, Baile Uí Bheoláin in Irish, is a village in County Clare, 33 km north-east of Limerick. The map gives it 262 buildings and 3 named streets, with 15 places named on them in 22 kinds, and 79 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 30th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Where
33 km north-east of Limerick, 152 km from Dublin
Position
52.9314° N, 8.4273° W
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
262 buildings, 3 streets, 15 named places in 22 kinds
Holy Island (Inish Cealtra), Lough Derg, near Mountshannon in County Clare, Ireland. St. Caimin's Church, the main church on the island, with Round Tower.
Holy Island (Inish Cealtra), Lough Derg, near Mountshannon in County Clare, Ireland. St. Caimin's Church, the main church on the island, with Round Tower.·Deadstar, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Mountshannon harbour on a grand soft day
Mountshannon harbour on a grand soft day·Towel401, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Clare since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

286,39473,597127,93818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 79 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map gives no numbered road inside Mountshannon; the roads it does record are local.

By bus or train

1 line calls at 4 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Mountshannon?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 33 km north-east of Limerick and 152 km from Dublin.
How big is Mountshannon?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 262 buildings, 3 named streets and 15 named places, which by building count makes it the 30th largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.
What is there to see in Mountshannon?
79 things the map records in and around it, the closest being The Maze, Woodpark Forest & Fairytrail and The Church of the Wounded Men.
How do you get to Mountshannon?
1 bus and train line calls at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Limerick Clare.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
262
buildings on the model
3
named streets
15
named places
22
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q2086272). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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