Shinrone
Shinrone () is a village in County Offaly, Ireland. It lies at the junction of the R491 regional road between Nenagh and Roscrea where it is joined by the R492 to Sharavogue. According to the 2016 census, the village then had 645 inhabitants. Architecture. A number of buildings of architectural interest in and around Shinrone are listed on the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage website, including: Transport. Local Link Tipperary operates a bus service between Roscrea railway station and Nenagh which stops at Shinrone Post Office. The service operates seven days a week. In fiction. Shinrone is named in the  Pogues song "Broad Majestic Shannon". Arlo Guthrie's visit to Shinrone is mentioned in Tim Winton's novel "The Riders" - shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1995. A character in the novel overhears locals in the small Irish village of Shinrone, recount the night Arlo Guthrie came to play. The actual event occurred in February 1988, when Arlo played the local hall in Shinrone. In media. Shinrone appeared in the titles of the satirical RTÉ television series Hall's Pictorial Weekly on 12 March 1980. People. American President Barack Obama's earliest known relative, Joseph Kearney, whose family subsequently moved  to Moneygall and who would become the President's 7th great-grandfather, was from Shinrone where the Kearney family lived and died for four generations. Research from Trinity college shows this to be the President's earliest known relative. Irish-born soldier, physician, and politician Edward Hand was born in Clyduff, King's County (now County Offaly) on 31 December 1744 and baptised in Shinrone. Hand served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the rank of Major-General, and later was a member of several Pennsylvania governmental bodies.