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About Shannon Harbour

Shannon Harbour, Caladh na Sionainne in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 73 km east of Galway. The map gives it 199 buildings and 3 named streets, with 4 places named on them in 18 kinds, and 75 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 37th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
73 km east of Galway, 113 km from Dublin
Position
53.2217° N, 7.9517° W
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
199 buildings, 3 streets, 4 named places in 18 kinds
Tisaran Church interior view towards NE
Tisaran Church interior view towards NE·A.-K. D., CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
County Offaly, Griffith Bridge.
County Offaly, Griffith Bridge.·Royalcanalrunner, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

County Offaly 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.

146,85751,30883,15018412022

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 75 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

No stop here appears in the national timetable.

Schools and services

The map records no school inside the settlement.

Questions people ask

Where is Shannon Harbour?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 73 km east of Galway and 113 km from Dublin.
How big is Shannon Harbour?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 199 buildings, 3 named streets and 4 named places, which by building count makes it the 37th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Shannon Harbour?
75 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Kilbeg Wood, Tisaran Church and St. Saran's Well.
How do you get to Shannon Harbour?
No stop within 2 km of it appears in the national timetable.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
199
buildings on the model
3
named streets
4
named places
18
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 Q3777948). 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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