Shannon Region
Munster
County Clare

Shannon

Shannon is a town and airport in in the west of Ireland. The airport came first, as a stopover for early transatlantic flights, then an industrial zone and new town grew beside it.
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  • Type: Town with 10,300 residents
  • Description: town in County Clare, Ireland
  • Also known as: “Shannon Town”, “Shannon, County Clare”, and “Shannon, Ireland”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Shannon Airport and Shannon Free Zone.

Aerodrome
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is an international airport located in in . It is adjacent to the Shannon Estuary and lies halfway between and .

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The is a 2.43 square kilometres, international business park adjacent to , , in . It is 18 km from and 20 km from .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bunratty and Hurlers Cross.

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is a village in , in the of west Ireland. Its big attraction is Castle, which has a folk museum and medieval-themed banquets.

Locality
is a small village in , Ireland. It is situated close to Shannon Town and 6 km from both and . It forms a part of Newmarket-on-Fergus parish.

Town
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, historically known as Corracatlin, is a town in , Ireland. It is 13 km from , 8 km from , and 24 km from . is situated 6 km north of Shannon.

Shannon

Latitude
52.7105° or 52° 42′ 38″ north
Longitude
-8.8788° or 8° 52′ 44″ west
Population
10,300
Elevation
2 metres (7 feet)
IATA airport code
SNN
United Nations Location Code
IE SNN
Open location code
9C4HP46C+5F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 52219009
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
3310247
Wiki­data ID
Q611919
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Shannon” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شانون، كاونتي كلير”
  • Asturian: “Shannon”
  • Basque: “Shannon”
  • Belarusian: “Шэнан (Ірландыя)”
  • Belarusian: “Шэнан”
  • Breton: “An tSionna”
  • Bulgarian: “Шанън”
  • Catalan: “Shannon”
  • Cebuano: “Shannon”
  • Chinese: “香农镇”
  • Chinese: “香農”
  • Chinese: “香農市”
  • Chinese: “香農鎮”
  • Czech: “Shannon (město)”
  • Czech: “Shannon”
  • Danish: “Shannon”
  • Dutch: “Shannon”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شانون”
  • Finnish: “Shannon”
  • French: “Shannon”
  • German: “Shannon”
  • Hebrew: “שאנון (עיר)”
  • Hungarian: “Shannon”
  • Indonesian: “Shannon”
  • Irish: “An tSionna”
  • Irish: “Sionainn”
  • Italian: “Shannon Town”
  • Italian: “Shannon”
  • Japanese: “シャノン (アイルランド)”
  • Japanese: “シャノン（アイルランド）”
  • Korean: “섀넌”
  • Lithuanian: “Šanonas”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shannon”
  • Norwegian: “Shannon”
  • Persian: “شانون (ایرلند)”
  • Persian: “شانون”
  • Polish: “Baile na Sionnainne”
  • Polish: “Shannon”
  • Portuguese: “Shannon”
  • Russian: “Шаннон”
  • Serbian: “Шенон”
  • Spanish: “Shannon Town”
  • Swedish: “Shannon”
  • Turkish: “Shannon, İrlanda”
  • Urdu: “شینن، کاؤنٹی کلیئر”
  • Urdu: “شینن”
  • Welsh: “Shannon”

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