From Surf Wiki (app.surf) — the open knowledge base

Abbeyshrule

Town in County Longford, Ireland

Summary

Town in County Longford, Ireland

Field	Value
name	Abbeyshrule
native_name	Mainistir Shruthla
native_name_lang	ga
settlement_type	Village
image_skyline	Abbeyshrule, County Longford - geograph.ie - 1827154.jpg
image_caption	The Royal Canal at Abbeyshrule
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	right
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Leinster
subdivision_type3	County
subdivision_name3	County Longford
unit_pref	Metric
population_est	200
pop_est_as_of	2012
pop_est_footnotes
timezone1	WET
utc_offset1	+0
timezone1_DST	IST (WEST)
utc_offset1_DST	-1
coordinates
elevation_m	82
blank_name	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info

Abbeyshrule () is a village in south-east County Longford, Ireland, on the River Inny and the Royal Canal. The village is in a civil parish of the same name.

History

The village takes its name from the Irish language word for a river or stream (sruth) and from the early medieval Cistercian abbey, the ruins of which still survive on the banks of the Inny. While the original medieval settlement built up around this religious site and the nearby fording point on the river, a number of archaeological finds (including of the Clonbrin Shield in 1906) indicate activity in the area from at least the Bronze Age.

The building of the Royal Canal in the early nineteenth century, which required the construction of the Whitworth aqueduct across the Inny, brought increasing trade to the village until the mid twentieth century.

Abbeyshrule won the National Tidy Towns Award in 2012. The village, which also claimed the award for Ireland's Tidiest Village in 2012, subsequently won a Gold Medal Award at the European Entente Florale Competition.

Notable people

The novelist, playwright and poet Oliver Goldsmith is believed to have been born in 1728 at Pallas, very near to the village, where his father resided as a local curate. The location is marked by a replica of the Goldsmith statue found at the entrance to Trinity College Dublin.

John Graham, a prolific author and senior officer of the Orange Order, was born here.

Amenities

The village is located in the Irish midlands between Athlone, Longford and Mullingar.

The Abbeyshrule Aerodrome is located just outside the village, while the Royal Canal has been reopened to tourist water-borne traffic in recent years.

References

(15 September 2012). "Welcome to Abbeyshrule: a tidy little town". Irish Times.
"Mainistir Shruthla / Abbeyshrule". Irish Placenames Commission.
"Abbeyshrule village website".
(2015). "Appendix 1E - Serviced Settlements". Longford County Council.
"Whitworth Aqueduct, Drumanure, County Longford". National Inventory of Architectural Heritage.
(10 September 2012). "Co Longford's Abbeyshrule claims Tidy Town award for 2012". Irish Independent.
(13 September 2012). "Abbeyshrule adds to the trophy cabinet with European award". Journal Media Ltd.
Morris, Michael. (1989). "The Shell guide to Ireland". Gill and Macmillan.

Wikipedia Source

This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page.

towns-and-villages-in-county-longford civil-parishes-of-county-longford

Want to explore this topic further?

Ask Mako anything about Abbeyshrule — get instant answers, deeper analysis, and related topics.

Research with Mako

Free with your Surf account

Content sourced from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

This content may have been generated or modified by AI. CloudSurf Software LLC is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of AI-generated content. Always verify important information from primary sources.

Report