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{{Short description|Town in County Offaly, Leinster, Ireland}} {{For|the place in [[Northern Ireland]]|Banagher, County Londonderry}} {{Good article}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=November 2021}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}} {{Infobox settlement |name = Banagher |native_name = {{lang|ga|Beannchar na Sionna}} |native_name_lang = ga |settlement_type = Town |image_skyline = Banagher Bridge and Maltings - geograph.org.uk - 585653.jpg |image_caption = Banagher Bridge and Maltings |pushpin_map = Ireland |pushpin_relief = 1 |pushpin_label_position = right |pushpin_map_caption = Location in Ireland |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] |subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]] |subdivision_name1 = [[Leinster]] |subdivision_type3 = [[Counties of Ireland|County]] |subdivision_name3 = [[County Offaly|Offaly]] |established_title = |established_date = |unit_pref = Metric |area_footnotes = |area_total_km2 = 1.80 |population_as_of = [[2022 census of Ireland|2022]] |population_footnotes = <ref name="cso2022">{{cite web|title=Census 2022 - F1015 Population|work=Central Statistics Office Census 2022 Reports |publisher=[[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|Central Statistics Office Ireland]] |date=August 2023 |url=https://data.cso.ie/table/F1015 |access-date=16 September 2023}}</ref> |population_total = |population = 1907 |population_density_km2 = auto |timezone1 = [[West European Time|WET]] |utc_offset1 = +0 |timezone1_DST = [[Irish Standard Time|IST]] ([[Western European Summer Time|WEST]]) |utc_offset1_DST = -1 |coordinates = {{Coord|53.183333|-7.983333|dim:100000_region:IE-OY|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation_footnotes = <ref>[http://www.indexmundi.com/zp/ei/2900.htm Index Mundi – Banagher Profile.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225214816/http://indexmundi.com/zp/ei/2900.htm |date=25 February 2010 }} Retrieved 3 November 2008.</ref> |elevation_m = 47 |blank_name = [[Irish grid reference system|Irish Grid Reference]] |blank_info = <!-- {{iem4ibx|??????}} --> |website = |footnotes = }} {{Historical populations|state=collapsed |1821|2813 |1831|2636 |1841|2827 |1851|1846 |1861|1426 |1871|1206 |1881|1192 |1891|1164 |1901|1114 |1911|891 |1926|788 |1936|720 |1946|636 |1951|840 |1956|1027 |1961|1050 |1966|1154 |1971|1052 |1981|1378 |1986|1465 |1991|1423 |1996|1414 |2002|1553 |2006|1636 |2011|1653 |2016|1760 |2022|1907 |footnote=<ref>[http://www.cso.ie/census Census for post 1821 figures.] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920090850/http://cso.ie/census/ |date=20 September 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.histpop.org |title=Histpop - The Online Historical Population Reports Website |date= |website=www.histpop.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |archive-date=7 May 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency - Census Home Page |access-date=9 February 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census/ |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Lee|first=J. J.| author-link =J. J. Lee (historian)|editor-last=Goldstrom|editor-first=J. M.|editor2-last=Clarkson |editor2-first=L. A.|title=Irish Population, Economy, and Society: Essays in Honour of the Late K. H. Connell |year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England |chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal | last1 = Mokyr | first1 = Joel | author-link = Joel Mokyr | last2 = Ó Gráda | first2 = Cormac | author2-link = Cormac Ó Gráda | title = New Developments in Irish Population History, 1700–1850 | journal = The Economic History Review | volume = 37 | issue = 4 | pages = 473–488 |date=November 1984 | url = http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | archive-url = https://archive.today/20121204160709/http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/120035880/abstract | url-status = dead | archive-date = 2012-12-04 | doi = 10.1111/j.1468-0289.1984.tb00344.x | hdl = 10197/1406 | hdl-access = free }}</ref><ref name="cso2016">{{cite web | url = http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=92177996-DE26-4447-AC85-E0C0A6083C37 | publisher = Central Statistics Office | work = Census 2016 | title = Sapmap Area - Settlements - Banagher | date = April 2016 | access-date = 21 February 2020 | archive-date = 14 May 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210514082951/http://census.cso.ie/sapmap2016/Results.aspx?Geog_Type=ST2016&Geog_Code=92177996-DE26-4447-AC85-E0C0A6083C37 | url-status = live }}</ref><ref name="cso2022"/> }} '''Banagher''' ({{irish place name|Beannchar}} or {{lang|ga|Beannchar na Sionna}}) is a town in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]], located in the midlands, on the western edge of [[County Offaly]] in the province of [[Leinster]], on the banks of the [[River Shannon]]. The town had a population of 3,000 at the height of its economic growth in the mid-19th century. According to the [[2022 census of Ireland|2022 census]], its population was 1,907.<ref name="cso2022"/> Banagher was historically an important strategic location on the River Shannon and was one of the few crossing points between the provinces of Leinster and [[Connacht]]. It thus became a natural focus for a number of historical buildings, including a 19th-century [[Martello Tower]] and a number of [[castles]] around the town, which were built in the 14th and 15th centuries. The town used to be the focus of thriving river business and was an important stop on the [[Dublin]] to [[Limerick]] navigation. It supported a number of industries, including a maltings and distillery, which are now defunct. Tourism has supplanted this to a certain extent with a modern [[marina]] providing support for river cruisers and watersports facilities and the town is an angling centre, with particular attraction for pike anglers.<ref name=OCC>[http://www.offaly.ie/offalyhome/visitoffaly/Towns/Banagher/ Offaly County Council – History of Banagher.] Retrieved 3 November 2008. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071119014044/http://www.offaly.ie/offalyhome/visitoffaly/Towns/Banagher/ |date=19 November 2007 }}</ref><ref>Neylon, Tina, ''Adventure Guide To Ireland'', Hunter Travel Guides, 2004, p.163.</ref> Banagher is the centre of the [[Shannon Callows]], grassy meadows which flood in winter and provide living space for waterfowl.
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