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Boat Hire and Travel Guide to the Shannon River in Ireland.

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The main attraction of Banagher is the great fishing that is available all year round. A good sized town, anglers can be found here all year round partaking of the local fare in the pubs and restaurants of the town. There’s also some good places for water sports, and the town has a modern marina for cruisers and pleasure boats.

History

There is evidence that Banagher was once an important crossing point on the river Shannon, and it is believed that there was an eighteen-arch bridge built here in then middle of the eleventh century. A new seventeen-arch bridge was built in the late seventeenth century, and this in turn was replaced by the Shannon Commissioners in 1843.

Banagher was one of the towns on the Shannon that was fortified against Napoleonic invasion in the nineteenth century. There is a Martello tower beside the old canal, and the remains of a barracks can be seen at the east end of the bridge. Nearby is an old castle known as Cromwell’s castle.

This travel guide is available free of charge due to the travel agents commission taken on boat hire services on the river. Feel free to browse the site at your leisure - all we ask is that if you are taking a boating holiday on the Shannon, you book it through the Shannon River web site.