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About Shannonbridge

Shannonbridge, Droichead na Sionainne in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 67 km east of Galway. The map gives it 396 buildings and 1 named street, with 12 places named on them in 23 kinds, and 76 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 27th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
67 km east of Galway, 119 km from Dublin
Position
53.2796° N, 8.0461° W, 38 m above sea level
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
396 buildings, 1 street, 12 named places in 23 kinds
River Shannon, south view from the bridge
River Shannon, south view from the bridge·Darrin Antrobus, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Shannon Bridge over River Shannon at Shannonbridge
Shannon Bridge over River Shannon at Shannonbridge·Martin Dawes, CC BY-SA 2.0 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 76 things to see

Getting around

By road

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

By bus or train

1 line calls at 1 stop 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 Shannonbridge?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 67 km east of Galway and 119 km from Dublin.
How big is Shannonbridge?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 396 buildings, 1 named street and 12 named places, which by building count makes it the 27th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Shannonbridge?
76 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Visitor Centre & Shannonbidge Pottery, Shannonbridge - Nearby Attractions and Shannonbridge Fort.
How do you get to Shannonbridge?
1 bus and train line calls at 1 stop here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Laois Offaly.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
396
buildings on the model
1
named streets
12
named places
23
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 Q1973783). 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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