Strokestown
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Strokestown (), is a small town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is one of the 27 designated Heritage Towns in Ireland. Located in the part of the country marketed for tourism purposes as Ireland's Hidden Heartlands, it is from Dublin and from Galway. Strokestown is one of Ireland's few planned towns, showing evidence of deliberate planning, such as formally aligned streets and prominent public buildings.
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Place details
- Region
- Connacht
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 825
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.name
- Strokestown
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Strokestown.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Second widest street in Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Ireland
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- left
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Ireland
- Settlement.blank_name_sec1
- Irish Grid Reference
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- County Roscommon
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 56
- Settlement.population_as_of
- 2016
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Roscommon
- Population
- 773
- Elevation
- 56
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- IMG Strokestown.jpg
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- Irish Grid Reference
- M929809
- Commons category
- Strokestown
- historic county
- County Roscommon
- native label
- Béal na mBuillí
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Name
- History
- Development
- Famine years
- 20th and 21st centuries
- Transport
- Architecture
- Built heritage
- Derelict buildings
- Education
- Places of interest
- Sport
- See also
- References
- External links
Strokestown (), is a small town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is one of the 27 designated Heritage Towns in Ireland. Located in the part of the country marketed for tourism purposes as Ireland's Hidden Heartlands, it is from Dublin and from Galway. Strokestown is one of Ireland's few planned towns, showing evidence of deliberate planning, such as formally aligned streets and prominent public buildings.
Features include the second-widest street in Ireland which measures 44.5 metres in width, and Strokestown Park House, an 18th-century mansion which is home to the National Famine Museum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Strokestown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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