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Banagher

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Banagher

Village on the River Shannon, in County Offaly, Republic of Ireland; population (2002) 1,800. Banagher is an inland fishing centre and a base for cruising and canoeing. A great variety of bird species can be found on the Shannon Callows, and there is a sanctuary for corncrakes.

Anthony Trollope, while working as a Post Office surveyor, wrote his first novels in Banagher. A B Nicholls, the husband of the novelist Charlotte Brontë, died and was buried here.



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A total of 50 jobs have been lost at Banagher Concrete Company in Co Offaly.
ANTHONY Daly's Dublin withstood an Offaly rally to take the Walsh Shield title at Banagher.
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