Shannonbridge
Shannonbridge Droichead na Sionainne Shannonbridge |
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Coordinates | 53 ° 17 ′ N , 8 ° 3 ′ W | |
Basic data | ||
Country | Ireland | |
Leinster | ||
county | Offaly | |
ISO 3166-2 | IE-OY | |
height | 38 m | |
Residents | 175 (2016) | |
Bridge over the Shannon
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Shannonbridge ( Irish Droichead na Sionainne ) is a small town in the townland of Raghra (Irish Reachra ) in Ireland . It has 175 inhabitants (as of 2016) and is located in County Offaly on the Shannon . About ten kilometers north of Shannonbridge is the famous Clonmacnoise monastery complex .
Shannonbridge has one of the oldest bridges in Ireland still in use today. It was completed in 1757 and spans the Shannon. During the Napoleonic era , the town was heavily fortified by the British. Some sections of these fortifications on the west bank of the Shannon can still be seen today, including a fort that is now used as a restaurant.
A few kilometers downstream is the West Offaly power plant , which is heated with peat . It has an output of 125 megawatts. The peat comes from the Blackwater Bog peatlands , which can be reached by narrow-gauge railway.
Personalities
sons and daughters of the town
- George Brent (1899–1979), Irish-American actor
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Shannonbridge on citypopulation.de, accessed on July 22, 2018