Roscrea
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Steve Edge, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Roscrea railway station and Roscrea Castle.
Roscrea railway station
Railway station
Roscrea railway station serves the town of Roscrea, County Tipperary, in Ireland. Roscrea station is on the Limerick-Ballybrophy railway line of the Irish railway network connecting to the main Cork-Dublin line at Ballybrophy.
Roscrea Castle
Castle
Photo: Graham Horn, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Roscrea Castle is a 13th-century motte-and-bailey castle in the town of Roscrea, Ireland. The castle consists of a walled courtyard, gate block, and angled towers.
St. Cronan’s Church
Church
Photo: AFBorchert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Cronan's Church is a 19th-century Church of Ireland church in Roscrea, County Tipperary, Ireland. The church was constructed in 1812 on the site of the original 12th century Romanesque church.
Roscrea
- Type: Town with 5,450 residents
- Description: town in County Tipperary, Ireland
- Category: locality
- Location: County Tipperary, Munster, Shannon Region, Ireland, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
52.9552° or 52° 57′ 19″ northLongitude
-7.799° or 7° 47′ 57″ westPopulation
5,450Elevation
113 metres (371 feet)United Nations Location Code
IE RSCOpen location code
9C4JX642+39OpenStreetMap ID
node 52250817OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Roscrea” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Roscrea”
- Basque: “Roscrea”
- Breton: “Ros Cré”
- Bulgarian: “Роскрей”
- Catalan: “Roscrea”
- Cebuano: “Roscrea”
- Chinese: “罗斯魁亚”
- Chinese: “羅斯克雷”
- Chinese: “羅斯魁亞”
- Czech: “Roscrea”
- Danish: “Roscrea”
- Dutch: “Roscrea”
- French: “Roscrea”
- German: “Roscrea”
- Greek: “Ροσκρέα”
- Indonesian: “Ros Cre”
- Indonesian: “Ros Cré”
- Indonesian: “Roscrea”
- Irish: “Ros Cré”
- Italian: “Roscrea”
- Lithuanian: “Roskrėja”
- Malay: “Roscrea”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Roscrea”
- Norwegian: “Roscrea”
- Persian: “راسکریا”
- Polish: “Roscrea”
- Russian: “Роскра”
- Russian: “Роскрей”
- Silesian: “Roscrea”
- Slovak: “Roscrea”
- Spanish: “Roscrea”
- Swedish: “Roscrea”
- Welsh: “Ros Cré”
- Welsh: “Roscrea”
- “Roscrea”
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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 “Roscrea”. Photo: Steve Edge, CC BY-SA 2.0.