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Pages in category "Towns and villages in County Offaly" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a sortable table of the approximately 1,194 townlands in County Offaly, Ireland. [1] [2] Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county. Names marked in bold typeface are towns and villages, and the word Town appears for those entries in the Acres column.
Tullamore is the county town and largest town in Offaly and is the 30th largest in Ireland. Offaly borders seven counties: Galway, Roscommon, Tipperary, Laois, Westmeath, Kildare, and Meath. The Slieve Bloom Mountains are in the southern part of the county on the border with County Laois. Offaly has the 24th highest county peak in Ireland.
Category:Towns and villages in County Offaly; Republic of Ireland: Carlow; Cavan; Clare; Cork; Donegal; Dublin. ... Pages in category "Townlands of County Offaly"
Birr (/ ˈ b ɜːr /; Irish: Biorra, meaning "plain of water") is a town in County Offaly, Ireland.Between 1620 and 1899 it was called Parsonstown, after the Parsons family who were local landowners and hereditary Earls of Rosse. [7]
Clara is situated in the north of County Offaly near the border with County Westmeath, on the regional road R420 some 12 kilometres northwest of Tullamore. Clara Bog is located approximately 2.5 kilometres to the southeast of Clara town.
Tullamore became county town of County Offaly in 1835, replacing Daingean. Tullamore has a long history of whiskey distilling, with two distilleries known to have operated in the town in the 1780s, though closed some years later. [12] Subsequently, a new distillery was established by Michael Molloy, on the site of one of the old distilleries in ...
Ferbane (/ f ɜːr ˈ b æ n, f ɛər-/; Irish: An Féar Bán) [2] is a town in County Offaly, Ireland. It is on the north bank of the River Brosna, between Birr and Athlone at the junction of the N62 and R436 roads, 20 km south of Athlone. The name of the town is said to come from the white bog cotton which grows in the surrounding Bog of ...