Mountshannon
Mountshannon is a village in east County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the civil parish of Inishcaltra. The village is on the western shore of Lough Derg, north of Killaloe. Mountshannon won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1981.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Inis Cealtra and Inishcaltra Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site.
Inis Cealtra
Islet
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Inis Cealtra, also known in English as Inishcaltra or Holy Island, is an island off the western shore of Lough Derg in Ireland. Now uninhabited, it was once a monastic settlement.
Inishcaltra Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site
Archaeological site
Photo: Cliodhnaoleary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Inishcaltra Early Medieval Ecclesiastical Site is an archaeological site.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Whitegate and Scarriff.
Whitegate
Hamlet
Photo: P L Chadwick, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitegate is a village on the R352 regional road in northeastern County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the Catholic parish Mountshannon-Whitegate. The former local church, which had been in disuse for some years, is now a warehouse and lumberyard. Whitegate is situated 4½ km northeast of Mountshannon.
Scarriff
Village
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Scarriff or Scariff is a large village in east County Clare, in the midwest of Ireland. The town is on the west end of Lough Derg and is best known for its harbour. Scarriff is situated 7 km west of Mountshannon.
Portroe
Village
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Portroe is a village in County Tipperary, Ireland. The village is located on the R494 regional road, 2km from the eastern shore of Lough Derg and 11km west of the town of Nenagh. Portroe is situated 7 km southeast of Mountshannon.
Mountshannon
- Type: Village with 200 residents
- Description: village in County Clare, Ireland
- Category: locality
- Location: County Clare, Munster, Shannon Region, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.93141° or 52° 55′ 53″ northLongitude
-8.42733° or 8° 25′ 38″ westPopulation
200Elevation
37 metres (121 feet)Open location code
9C4HWHJF+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 52258813OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2962459Wikidata ID
Q2086272
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Swedish—“Mountshannon” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Mountshannon”
- Bulgarian: “Моунцханон”
- Catalan: “Mountshannon”
- Cebuano: “Mountshannon”
- Dutch: “Mountshannon”
- French: “Mountshannon”
- Irish: “Baile Uí Bheoláin”
- Russian: “Маунтшаннон”
- Spanish: “Mountshannon”
- Swedish: “Mountshannon”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mountshannon”. Photo: Adie Jackson, CC BY-SA 2.0.