Cahir
Cahir is a small market town in County Tipperary in Ireland. With a population in 2022 of 3700, its main attractions are the castle, Swiss Cottage, and Mitchelstown Cave.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Santista1982, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 3,680 residents
- Description: human settlement, Tipperary, Ireland
- Also known as: “an Chathair”, “Caher”, and “Cathair Dún Iascaigh”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cahir Castle and Swiss Cottage.
Cahir Castle
Photo: Chmouel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cahir Castle, one of the largest castles in Ireland, is sited on an island in the river Suir. It was built from 1142 by Conchobar Ua Briain, King of Thomond.
Swiss Cottage
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Swiss Cottage is an early 19th-century cottage orné located at Kilcommon near the town of Cahir, County Tipperary in Ireland. It is managed by the Office of Public Works and open to the public as a tourist attraction.
Cahir railway station
Railway station
Photo: Albert Bridge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Cahir railway station serves the town of Cahir, County Tipperary in Ireland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ballylooby.
Ballylooby
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Ballylooby is a village in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is in the barony of Iffa and Offa West, and is also a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Waterford and Lismore. Ballylooby is situated 7 km southwest of Cahir.
Cahir
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: County Tipperary, Munster, Shannon Region, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
52.375° or 52° 22′ 30″ northLongitude
-7.9242° or 7° 55′ 27″ westPopulation
3,680Elevation
56 metres (184 feet)OpenStreetMap ID
node 52244753OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“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”
- Japanese: “ケア”
- Luxembourgish: “Cahir”
- Malay: “Cahir”
- Moksha: “Кэр”
- Polish: “Cahir”
- Portuguese: “Cahir”
- Russian: “Кэр”
- Spanish: “Cahir”
- Swedish: “Cahir”
- Ukrainian: “Кер”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Cahir”. Photo: Santista1982, Public domain.