Mountshannon
Sign in to saveMountshannon (, historically anglicised as Ballybolan) is a village in east County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the civil parish of Inishcaltra. The village is on the western shore of Lough Derg, north of Killaloe. Mountshannon won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1981.
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- Mountshannon
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- Harbour and moorings at Mountshannon - geograph.org.uk - 1449382.jpg
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- Harbour and moorings at Mountshannon
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- Munster
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- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Clare
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- Harbour and moorings at Mountshannon - geograph.org.uk - 1449382.jpg
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Article
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- History
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- Harbour
- White-tailed Sea Eagles
- Civil parish
- Catholic parish
- Church of Ireland
- Festivals
- Annalistic references
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Mountshannon (, historically anglicised as Ballybolan) is a village in east County Clare, Ireland. It is part of the civil parish of Inishcaltra. The village is on the western shore of Lough Derg, north of Killaloe. Mountshannon won the Irish Tidy Towns Competition in 1981.
==History== The village was designed and built from scratch by Alexander Woods, a Limerick merchant, who intended it as a purely Protestant settlement from which the surrounding Catholic population would be so impressed by the thrift and industry of the settlers that they would quickly convert to the Reformed Church; even as late as the 1830s there was not a single Catholic resident in the village. In fact the reverse happened - it was the Catholics who colonised the village, and the Protestant church in a wooded churchyard bears mute testimony to Woods and his scheme.