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County Clare · Munster

About Shannon

Shannon, Sionainn in Irish, is a town in County Clare, 18 km west of Limerick, with 9,222 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the N19 and R471. The map gives it 2,471 buildings and 49 named streets, with 144 places named on them in 54 kinds, and 108 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the third largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
9,222 at the 2006 census
Where
18 km west of Limerick, 189 km from Dublin
Position
52.7105° N, 8.8788° W
Roads
N19 and R471
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
2,471 buildings, 49 streets, 144 named places in 54 kinds
Shopping centre in Shannon
Shopping centre in Shannon·Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
NIHE students working in the Shannon Grinding Centre as part of Cooperative Education training February 1975 (8976903993)
NIHE students working in the Shannon Grinding Centre as part of Cooperative Education training February 1975 (8976903993)·Glucksman Library, no restrictions via Wikimedia Commons

Shannon in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to the 1490s. That is not a history of Shannon, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the twelfth centurythe 1490sCanon Island AbbeyBallyhannon Castle
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryCanon Island AbbeyHistoric churches · 11 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century

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 108 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the N19 and R471 running through Shannon. 17 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

4 lines call at 43 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

4 school or colleges on the map: Clonmoney National School, Saint Caimins Community School, Saint Patricks Comprehensive and Stonehall National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Shannon?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 18 km west of Limerick and 189 km from Dublin, on the N19 and R471.
How big is Shannon?
9,222 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 2,471 buildings and 49 named streets.
What is there to see in Shannon?
108 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Shannon Town Park, Shannon Town Park and Atlantic Air Venture.
How do you get to Shannon?
4 bus and train lines call at 43 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
2,471
buildings on the model
49
named streets
144
named places
54
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 Q611919). 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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