Bunratty
Sign in to saveBunratty (, meaning "mouth of the Raite") is a village in County Clare, Ireland, near Bunratty Castle. It is connected by the N18 road to Limerick and Galway. The Raite river defines the parish's eastern boundary and flows into the Shannon Estuary, which defines the southern boundary.
Weather now
cached 157h ago15°scattered clouds
77% 7.2 m/s OpenWeatherMap
7-day forecast
via Open-Meteo
Place details
- Locality
- Bunratty
- Region
- Munster
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Bunratty
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Village
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Bunratty - Bunratty Village Mills - geograph.org.uk - 1632243.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Buildings in Bunratty village
- 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
- Munster
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Clare
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Official website
- www.clarecoco.ie
- Image
- Bunratty - Bunratty Village Mills - geograph.org.uk - 1632243.jpg
Show 1 more fact
- P7959
- County Clare
via Wikidata · CC0
Article
8 sectionsContents
- History
- Location
- Economy
- Gallery
- References
- Notes
- Citations
- External links
Bunratty (, meaning "mouth of the Raite") is a village in County Clare, Ireland, near Bunratty Castle. It is connected by the N18 road to Limerick and Galway. The Raite river defines the parish's eastern boundary and flows into the Shannon Estuary, which defines the southern boundary.
==History== The first settlement in Bunratty may have been set up by Vikings in the 10th century. The Annals of the Four Masters report that Brian Boru destroyed a Viking settlement in the area in 977. thumb|Bunratty Parish in 1842. The castle is in the southeast of the parish, and the Catholic chapel (the still existing Our Lady Of The Wells Church) is in the north. Around 1250 the Anglo-Norman ruler Mucegros was given the right to hold a market and fair at Bunratty. He built the castle in 1277. The castle became the main residence of Richard de Clare, owner of all of Thomond. In the late 13th century, Bunratty had about 1,000 inhabitants. Richard de Clare was killed in 1311, and in 1314 the town of Bunratty was burned to the ground by the local people. The castle was sacked in 1332.