Brosna
Brosna is a small village and townland in County Offaly, Ireland. 7 km north-west of Roscrea, it lies in the valley of the Little Brosna River near the N62 road.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: hamlet in Leinster, Ireland
- Also known as: “Brosna, County Offaly”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mount St. Joseph Abbey.
Mount St. Joseph Abbey
Monastery
Photo: JohnArmagh, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mount St. Joseph Abbey is an abbey of the Trappist branch of the Cistercians located in County Offaly, near Roscrea, County Tipperary in Ireland. The abbey was founded in 1878 by a group of 32 monks from Mount Melleray Abbey, County Waterford, a number of years earlier Arthur John Moore MP of County Tipperary visited Mt Melleray petitioning for it. Mount St. Joseph Abbey is situated 4 km southeast of Brosna.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Roscrea and Dunkerrin.
Roscrea
Photo: Steve Edge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roscrea is a town in County Tipperary, with a population of 5500 in 2022. It has several medieval buildings, notably the castle, and is also a good base for nearby sites across the county boundary in Offaly and Laois.
Dunkerrin
Hamlet
Photo: Sarah777, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Dunkerrin is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland, just south of Roscrea and near the County Tipperary border. It is on the R445 road which was once the main road from Dublin to Limerick. Dunkerrin is situated 9 km south of Brosna.
Crinkill
Village
Crinkill, sometimes spelt Crinkle, is a village in County Offaly, Ireland, close to Birr. Crinkill was designated as a census town by the Central Statistics Office for the first time in the 2016 census, at which time it had a population of 682 people. Crinkill is situated 10 km north of Brosna.
Brosna
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Offaly, Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.99138° or 52° 59′ 29″ northLongitude
-7.88819° or 7° 53′ 18″ westElevation
61 metres (200 feet)Open location code
9C4JX4R6+HPOpenStreetMap ID
node 52222581OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Russian—“Brosna” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Brosna (Offaly konderria)”
- Basque: “Brosna”
- Dutch: “Brosna”
- Irish: “An Bhrosnach, Contae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Irish: “An Bhrosnach”
- Russian: “Бросна”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gay Treacy Airstrip and Kilballyskea Bog.
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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 “Brosna”. Photo: Sarah777, Public domain.