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Shanagolden, County Limerick

Village in County Limerick, Ireland

Summary

Village in County Limerick, Ireland

Field	Value
settlement_type	Village
name	Shanagolden
native_name
native_name_lang	ga
image_skyline	Shanid_Castle_County_Limerick.jpg
image_caption	Shanid Castle just south of Shanagolden
pushpin_map	Ireland
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Ireland
coordinates
blank_name_sec1	Irish Grid Reference
blank_info_sec1
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Ireland
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Munster
subdivision_type2	County
subdivision_name2	County Limerick
unit_pref	Metric
elevation_m	25
population_as_of	2016
population_total	303
population_footnotes

Shanagolden () is a small village in County Limerick, Ireland. It is west of the Golden Vale, an area of fertile agricultural land in the province of Munster. The village is around 35 km west of Limerick city on the R521 road between Foynes and Newcastle West. The population was 303 at the 2016 census. The village is in a townland and civil parish of the same name.

History

The area is mentioned in the Annals of the Four Masters. In 968 the King of Munster, Mathgamain mac Cennétig, defeated the Hiberno-Norse Kings Ivar of Limerick and Ivar of Waterford at Sengualainn in a "red slaughter". In 1124, Turlogh O'Connor gathered a fleet together to cross the River Shannon and plundered the lands of the Uí Conaill at Foynes Island. After the defeat of the Rebel Earl during the Second Desmond Rebellion, Shanagolden village was laid out during the 1580s as an Anglo-Irish plantation village.

Places of interest

The ruins of Shanid Castle, an important Anglo-Norman stronghold, are located a short distance away from the village. The castle was possibly constructed in 1230 on land associated with the FitzMaurice family which settled in the area after 1169 and was a fortress of the Knights of Glin before being burned in 1641. Known as the "Old Abbey", St. Katherine's Abbey, Monisternagalliaghduff (Manisternagalliaghduff) is a former Augustinian nunnery founded in 1298 and dissolved in 1541. One of the earliest recorded nunneries in Ireland, it is located in a valley about 2 miles north east of Shanagolden. The town's history has been chronicled in a local book, written by students of the local primary school, and was published and distributed to many local shops.

References

"Sapmap Area: Settlements Shanagolden". [[Central Statistics Office (Ireland).
"Seanghualainn/Shanagolden".
"Shanid Castle". of-ireland.info.
Begley, Rev. John. (1906). "The diocese of Limerick, ancient and medieval". Browne and Nolan.

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