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About Shanagolden

Shanagolden, Seanghualainn in Irish, is a village in County Limerick, 33 km west of Limerick. The map gives it 667 buildings and 2 named streets, with 10 places named on them in 20 kinds, and 73 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 23th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.

Where
33 km west of Limerick, 209 km from Dublin
Position
52.5739° N, 9.1000° W
Governed
Limerick County Council, in the province of Munster
On the model
667 buildings, 2 streets, 10 named places in 20 kinds
Special train at Foynes (geograph 3462782)
Special train at Foynes (geograph 3462782)·The Carlisle Kid, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Near Shanagolden. I've been told this is Shanid Castle.
Near Shanagolden. I've been told this is Shanid Castle.·brianwc, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Limerick 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.

330,029133,339209,53618412022

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 73 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

2 lines call at 3 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 Shanagolden?
In County Limerick, in the province of Munster, 33 km west of Limerick and 209 km from Dublin.
How big is Shanagolden?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 667 buildings, 2 named streets and 10 named places, which by building count makes it the 23th largest of the 65 settlements this site covers in County Limerick.
What is there to see in Shanagolden?
73 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Lismeenagh, Knockourha and Lisnamnaroe.
How do you get to Shanagolden?
2 bus and train lines call at 3 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann and Madigan's Bus Hire.
Has County Limerick grown or shrunk?
The census counted 330,029 people in the county in 1841 and 209,536 in 2022.
667
buildings on the model
2
named streets
10
named places
20
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. 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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