Shannon Town or Shannon (Irish: An tSionna) is located in County Clare and is the only new town in the Republic of Ireland. A new town is a town that was built after World War II on a green field site. It was given town status on January 1st, 1982.
The town was built on reclaimed marshland alongside the newly established Shannon Airport, along with the Shannon Free Zone industrial estate. The town itself was intended as a home for the thousands of workers at the airport, surrounding industries and support services. Population growth was never as fast as planned throughout the first few decades of the town’s existence. This was partly due to the proximity of ‘friendly’ places to live, such as Ennis and Limerick City, or even the nearby village of Newmarket-on-Fergus.
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