Cahir

Cahir (; ) is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Iffa and Offa West.

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Place details

Region: Munster
Country: Éire / Ireland
Population: 3,593
Timezone: Europe/Dublin

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Key facts

Settlement.settlement_type: Town
Settlement.name: Cahir
Settlement.native_name_lang: ga
Settlement.image_skyline: Castle Street, Cahir 069.jpg
Settlement.image_caption: Castle Street
Settlement.pushpin_map: Ireland
Settlement.pushpin_label_position: right
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: Munster
Settlement.subdivision_type2: County
Settlement.subdivision_name2: Tipperary
Settlement.subdivision_type3: Dáil Éireann
Settlement.subdivision_name3: Tipperary South
Settlement.unit_pref: Metric

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Wikidata facts

Population: 3381
Elevation: 50
Image: Castle Street, Cahir 069.jpg

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Commons category: Cahir
Irish Grid Reference: S051252
P12749: Sebastian Anton Scherer
native label: An Chathair

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Cahir (; ) is a town in County Tipperary in Ireland. It is also a civil parish in the barony of Iffa and Offa West.

==Location and access== For much of the twentieth century, Cahir stood at an intersection of two busy national roadways: the Dublin to Cork N8, and the Limerick to Waterford N24. The N8 was realigned in 1991 to run west of the town, while the old road through it was renumbered the R670. Traffic from the N24 still left the town badly congested, however, until October 2007 when this road was also realigned to bypass Cahir to the north and east. The same road improvement scheme saw major changes to the N8 corridor: a new motorway, the M8, was constructed west of the town between 2006 and 2008. Access to Cahir from this motorway is gained at Junctions 10 and 11.