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About Shinrone

Shinrone, Suí an Róin in Irish, is a village in County Offaly, 59 km north-west of Kilkenny. It stands on the R491, R492 and L4012. The map gives it 671 buildings and 11 named streets, with 21 places named on them in 29 kinds, and 54 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the 13th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.

Where
59 km north-west of Kilkenny, 118 km from Dublin
Position
52.9842° N, 7.9247° W
Roads
R491, R492, L4012 and L4019
Governed
Offaly County Council, in the province of Leinster
On the model
671 buildings, 11 streets, 21 named places in 29 kinds
Shinrone, County Offaly
Shinrone, County Offaly·Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Annebrook House, Main Street, Shinrone, Co. Offaly
Annebrook House, Main Street, Shinrone, Co. Offaly·Mike Searle, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Shinrone in order

3 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the twelfth century to the 1400s. That is not a history of Shinrone, 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 1400sRoscrea ChurchRoscrea Abbey
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryRoscrea ChurchRuins · 9.2 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The thirteenth century
The fourteenth century
  • the 1400sRoscrea AbbeyAbbeys · 9.1 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland

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 54 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the R491, R492, L4012 and L4019 running through Shinrone.

By bus or train

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

Schools and services

1 school or college on the map: Shinrone National School.

Questions people ask

Where is Shinrone?
In County Offaly, in the province of Leinster, 59 km north-west of Kilkenny and 118 km from Dublin, on the R491, R492 and L4012.
How big is Shinrone?
No census figure is on record for it here. On the map it is 671 buildings, 11 named streets and 21 named places, which by building count makes it the 13th largest of the 37 settlements this site covers in County Offaly.
What is there to see in Shinrone?
54 things the map records in and around it, the closest being Derrynamuckla, Cangort Wood and Pound Fort.
How do you get to Shinrone?
2 bus and train lines call at 4 stops here in the published timetable, run by TFI Local Link Laois Offaly and TFI Local Link Tipperary.
Has County Offaly grown or shrunk?
The census counted 146,857 people in the county in 1841 and 83,150 in 2022.
671
buildings on the model
11
named streets
21
named places
29
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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