County Offaly
County Offaly is in the East Coast and Midlands region of Ireland, and traditionally part of the province of Leinster. It's mostly lowland and rural.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Tullamore and Birr.
Tullamore
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Tullamore is the county town of County Offaly, and more or less in the centre of Ireland. It's traversed by the Grand Canal, which is navigable by leisure boats from Dublin to the Shannon and beyond.
Birr
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Birr is a town in County Offaly in the Midlands of Ireland, with a population of 5741 in 2016. Birr is a well preserved Georgian town with graceful streets and elegant buildings.
Edenderry
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Edenderry is a town at the east edge of County Offaly, with a population in 2022 of 7900. The main reason to visit is for boating along the canal.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Clonmacnoise and Clara.
Clonmacnoise
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Clonmacnoise is a medieval monastery complex in County Offaly in the centre of Ireland. The village is tiny, with almost no visitor amenities, and most people come on day trips from Dublin or Athlone.
Clara
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Clara is a town in County Offaly in the midlands of Ireland. It's on the main Dublin-Galway railway and has become a commuter town for the capital, with a population of 3400 in 2022. Its main sight, 2 km south, is the wetland of Clara Bog.
Banagher
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Banagher is a town at the western edge of County Offaly on the banks of the River Shannon. In Irish it's Beannchar na Sionna, "the place of the pointed rocks on the Shannon" - the river is shallow so it can be forded and is less flood-prone, but it's a block to navigation.
Kinnitty
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Kinnity is a village in County Offaly, 13 km east of Birr. In Irish Cionn Eitigh means "the head of Etech", a mythical princess whose head is supposedly buried here, and the rest who knows where.
County Offaly
- Type: county of Ireland with 78,000 residents
- Description: county in Ireland
- Also known as: “Co. Offaly”, “King’s Co.”, “King’s County”, “Offally”, “Offaly”, “Offaly Co.”, “Offaly County”, and “Uibh Fhaili”
- Neighbors: County Galway, County Kildare, County Laois, County Meath, County Roscommon, County Tipperary, and County Westmeath
- Location: Leinster, East Coast and Midlands, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“County Offaly” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مقاطعة أوفالي”
- Arabic: “مقاطعه أوفالي”
- Asturian: “Condáu d’Offaly”
- Azerbaijani: “Offali”
- Balinese: “County Offaly”
- Basque: “Offaly konderria”
- Basque: “Offalyko konderri”
- Basque: “Offalyko konderria”
- Belarusian: “графства Офалі”
- Belarusian: “Офалі (графства)”
- Belarusian: “Офалі”
- Bengali: “কাউন্টি ওফ্যালি”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Offaly”
- Breton: “Kontelezh Uíbh Fhailí”
- Bulgarian: “Офали”
- Catalan: “comtat d’Offaly”
- Catalan: “Comtat d’Offaly”
- Cebuano: “Uíbh Fhailí”
- Chinese: “Offaly Kūn”
- Chinese: “奥法利郡”
- Chinese: “奧法利郡”
- Czech: “Contae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Czech: “County Offaly”
- Czech: “Hrabství Offaly”
- Czech: “King’s County”
- Czech: “King’s”
- Czech: “Offaly”
- Danish: “County Offaly”
- Dutch: “County Offaly”
- Dutch: “Offaly”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كاونتى اوففالى”
- Esperanto: “Contae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Esperanto: “County Offaly”
- Esperanto: “Graflando Offaly”
- Finnish: “Offaly”
- Finnish: “Offalyn kreivikunta”
- French: “comté d’Offaly”
- French: “Comté d’Offaly”
- French: “Offaly”
- Galician: “Condado de Offaly”
- Georgian: “ოფალის საგრაფო”
- German: “County Offaly”
- German: “IE-OY”
- German: “Offaly”
- Greek: “κομητεία Όφαλι”
- Greek: “Όφαλι”
- Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી ઓફેલી”
- Hebrew: “מחוז אופאלי”
- Hindi: “काउंटी ऑफेली”
- Indonesian: “County Offaly”
- Irish: “Contae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Irish: “Stair Uibh Fhaili”
- Irish: “Uíbh Fhailí”
- Italian: “Contea di Offaly”
- Italian: “County Offaly”
- Italian: “Offaly”
- Japanese: “オファリー県”
- Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಆಫಲಿ”
- Kazakh: “Оффали (графтық)”
- Kazakh: “Оффали”
- Korean: “오펄리주”
- Kurdish: “County Offaly”
- Latin: “Comitatus Offalaiensis”
- Latvian: “Ofali grāfiste”
- Lithuanian: “Ofalio grafystė”
- Lithuanian: “Ofalis”
- Macedonian: “Офали”
- Malay: “County Offaly”
- Malay: “Kaunti Offaly”
- Manx: “Coontae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Marathi: “काउंटी ऑफली”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Offaly Kūn”
- Northern Frisian: “Offaly”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “County Offaly”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Offaly”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Contae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Offaly”
- Norwegian: “Offaly”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Offalyscīr”
- Persian: “افلی”
- Persian: “شهرستان افلی”
- Polish: “Offaly”
- Portuguese: “Condado de Offaly”
- Romanian: “Comitatul Offaly”
- Romanian: “Judeţul Offaly”
- Romanian: “Județul Offaly”
- Russian: “Графство Оффали”
- Russian: “Оффали”
- Scots: “Coontie Offaly”
- Scots: “Coonty Offaly”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Ò Failghi”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Uíbh Fhailghi”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Contae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Serbian: “Ofali”
- Serbian: “Офали”
- Serbo-Croatian: “County Offaly”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grofovija Offaly”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ofali”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Offaly”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Ofali”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Okrug Offaly”
- Sinhala: “ඔෆලේ ප්රාන්තය”
- Slovak: “Offaly”
- Slovenian: “County Offaly”
- Slovenian: “Offaly”
- Slovenian: “Okrožje Offaly”
- Spanish: “Condado de Offaly”
- Spanish: “Offaly”
- Swahili: “Wilaya ya Offaly”
- Swedish: “County Offaly”
- Swedish: “Offaly”
- Tajik: “Vilojati Ofali”
- Tajik: “Вилояти Офали”
- Tamil: “கவுண்டி ஆஃப்லய்”
- Telugu: “ఓఫాలీ కౌంటీ”
- Thai: “มณฑลออฟฟาลี”
- Tumbuka: “County Offaly”
- Turkish: “Co Offaly”
- Turkish: “Co Uíbh Fhailí”
- Turkish: “Co. Offaly”
- Turkish: “Co. Uíbh Fhailí”
- Turkish: “Contae Uíbh Fhailí”
- Turkish: “IE-OY”
- Turkish: “King’s Co.”
- Turkish: “King’s Cou.”
- Turkish: “King’s County”
- Turkish: “King’s ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Offaly Co.”
- Turkish: “Offaly County”
- Turkish: “Offaly ilçesi”
- Turkish: “Offaly Kontluğu”
- Turkish: “Stair Uibh Fhaili”
- Turkish: “Uíbh Fhailí”
- Ukrainian: “графство Оффалі”
- Ukrainian: “Оффалі (графство)”
- Ukrainian: “Оффалі”
- Urdu: “کاؤنٹی اوفلی”
- Vietnamese: “Hạt Offaly”
- Welsh: “Swydd Offaly”
- Western Panjabi: “اوفالے”
- Wu Chinese: “奥法利郡”
- “County Offaly”
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