Abbeyshrule
Sign in to saveAbbeyshrule () 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.
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Abbeyshrule
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Abbeyshrule, County Longford - geograph.ie - 1827154.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- The Royal Canal at Abbeyshrule
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- right
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Leinster
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- County Longford
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_est
- 200
- Settlement.pop_est_as_of
- 2012
- Settlement.timezone1
- WET
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Longford
- Elevation
- 82
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Abbeyshrule, County Longford - geograph.ie - 1827154.jpg
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- Commons category
- Abbeyshrule
- Irish Grid Reference
- N213572
- historic county
- County Longford
- native label
- Mainistir Shruthla
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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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Abbeyshrule” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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