Castlerea
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Castlerea ( ; ) is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located in the west of the county and had a population of 2,348 at the 2022 census. Roughly translated from Irish, Castlerea is generally thought to mean 'brindled castle' (Caisleán Riabhach). An alternative translation is 'castle of the king' (Caisleán Rí). The town is built on the banks of the River Suck and the River Francis, both of which are tributaries of the River Shannon.
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Place details
- Locality
- Castlerea
- Region
- Connacht
- Country
- Éire / Ireland
- Population
- 1,992
- Timezone
- Europe/Dublin
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Key facts
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- Eircode routing key
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
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- Castlerea
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- ga
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- Castlerea Main Street.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Main Street, Castelrea
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- Ireland
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- right
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- Location in Ireland
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- Irish Grid Reference
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- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Ireland
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Connacht
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- County
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Roscommon
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 82
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Official name
- An Caisleán Riabhach
- Country
- Republic of Ireland
- Located in
- County Roscommon
- Population
- 1873
- Area
- 2.29
- Elevation
- 82
- Time zone
- UTC±00:00
- Image
- Castlerea Main Street.jpg
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- Commons category
- Castlerea
- Irish Grid Reference
- M670797
- native label
- An Caisleán Riabhach
- historic county
- County Roscommon
- P12749
- Carl Friedrich von Beyme
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Castlerea ( ; ) is a town in County Roscommon, Ireland. It is located in the west of the county and had a population of 2,348 at the 2022 census. Roughly translated from Irish, Castlerea is generally thought to mean 'brindled castle' (Caisleán Riabhach). An alternative translation is 'castle of the king' (Caisleán Rí). The town is built on the banks of the River Suck and the River Francis, both of which are tributaries of the River Shannon.
== History == thumb|Clonalis House Clonalis House, located in the west of Castlerea, is the ancestral home of the Clan O'Conor, the last of the High Kings of Ireland. The O'Connor dynasty produced eleven high kings of Ireland and twenty-four kings of Connacht.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Castlerea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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