Carrick-on-Shannon
Carrick-on-Shannon is the county town of County Leitrim in northwest Ireland, and grew up at a place where the Shannon could be forded. Later the river was bridged, so Carrick and the south bank village of Cortober in County Roscommon became a single settlement.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,740 residents
- Description: town in County Leitrim, Ireland
- Also known as: “Carrick”, “Carrick on Shannon”, and “Carrick-On-Shannon”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Carrick-on-Shannon railway station and Costello Chapel.
Carrick-on-Shannon railway station
Railway station
Photo: Brian Shaw, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carrick-on-Shannon railway station serves the town of Carrick-on-Shannon. Whilst the town itself is in County Leitrim, the railway station lies across the border in neighbouring County Roscommon in the small area of Cortober or Mullaghmore.
Costello Chapel
Church
Photo: Magnumlady, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Costello Chapel is a very small Catholic chapel located in Carrick-on-Shannon, County Leitrim, Ireland. It was built for Edward Costello in 1879, in memory of his wife, Mary Josephine, who alongside her husband is buried in the chapel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cootehall.
Cootehall
Village
Cootehall is a village in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located on the River Boyle, between Boyle and Carrick-on-Shannon near Lough Key Forest Park in the north of the county. Cootehall is situated 6 km northwest of Carrick-on-Shannon.
Carrick-on-Shannon
- Category: locality
- Location: County Leitrim, Connacht, Northwest Ireland and Lakelands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.9441° or 53° 56′ 39″ northLongitude
-8.0953° or 8° 5′ 43″ westPopulation
4,740Elevation
50 metres (164 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE COSOpen location code
9C5HWWV3+MVOpenStreetMap ID
node 31086076OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Carrick-on-Shannon” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Basque: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Breton: “Cora Droma Rúisc”
- Bulgarian: “Карик он Шанън”
- Catalan: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Cebuano: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Chinese: “香农河畔卡里克”
- Czech: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Danish: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Dutch: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Esperanto: “Cora Droma Rúisc”
- French: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Georgian: “კერიკ-ონ-შენონი”
- German: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Irish: “Cora Droma Rúisc”
- Italian: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Japanese: “キャリック＝オン＝シャノン”
- Korean: “캐릭온섀넌”
- Latin: “Caricta”
- Lithuanian: “Karikas prie Šanono”
- Manx: “Cora Droma Rúisc”
- Northern Frisian: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Norwegian: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Persian: “کریک آن شانون”
- Polish: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Russian: “Каррик-он-Шаннон”
- Russian: “Каррик”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Cora Droma Rúisc”
- Serbian: “Карик на Шенону”
- Silesian: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Slovak: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Spanish: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Swahili: “Carrick on Shannon”
- Swedish: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
- Ukrainian: “Каррік-на-Шанноні”
- Urdu: “کیرک-آن-شینن”
- Welsh: “Carrick-on-Shannon”
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