Cahir

Cahir is a small market town in in Ireland. With a population in 2022 of 3700, its main attractions are the castle, Swiss Cottage, and Mitchelstown Cave.
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  • Type: Town with 3,680 residents
  • Description: human settlement, Tipperary, Ireland
  • Also known as: “an Chathair”, “Caher”, “Cathair Dún Iascaigh”, and “ケア”

Places of Interest

Highlights: Cahir Castle and Cahir railway station.

Photo: Chmouel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, one of the largest castles in , is sited on an island in the .

Railway station
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serves the town of Cahir, in .

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The is an early 19th-century cottage…

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ballylooby.

Village
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is a village in in Ireland. is situated 7 km southwest of Cahir.

Cahir

Latitude
52.375° or 52° 22′ 30″ north
Longitude
-7.9242° or 7° 55′ 27″ west
Population
3,680
Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)
UN/LOCODE
IE CAI and IE CHR
Open location code
9C4J93FG+X8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52244753
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2965873
Wiki­data ID
Q516951
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Urdu—“Cahir” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Cahir”
  • Breton: “An Chathair”
  • Bulgarian: “Кеър”
  • Catalan: “Cahir”
  • Cebuano: “Cahir”
  • Chinese: “克合”
  • Danish: “Cahir”
  • Dutch: “Cahir”
  • French: “Cahir”
  • German: “Cahir”
  • Greek: “Κέαρ”
  • Indonesian: “Cahir”
  • Irish: “An Chathair, Contae Thiobraid Árann”
  • Irish: “An Chathair”
  • Irish: “Án Chathair”
  • Italian: “Cahir”
  • Japanese: “カハ”
  • Luxembourgish: “Cahir”
  • Malay: “Cahir”
  • Moksha: “Кэр”
  • Polish: “Cahir”
  • Portuguese: “Cahir”
  • Russian: “Кэр”
  • Spanish: “Cahir”
  • Swedish: “Cahir”
  • Ukrainian: “Кер”
  • Urdu: “کاہیر”

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