Shannon Development

What does Shannon Development do?

Set up in 1959 to promote Shannon International Airport in the post-jet era, Shannon Development is today, Ireland's only dedicated regional development company. The Company's brief is to generate industry, tourism and rural development in the wider Shannon area, known as the Shannon Region. This covers an area of some 10,000 square kilometres spanning counties Clare, Limerick, North Tipperary, South Offaly and North Kerry, which collectively have a population of over 407,000 people.

Over the past forty years the Company has worked, singularly and with many different `partners' from the statutory, community and private sectors, to develop the region to its full potential. Its responsibilities include:

Developing and strengthening the indigenous industry sector in the Shannon
Region, which includes building up a knowledge age culture and creating awareness of the benefits accruing from the Information Society.
Developing the Shannon Free Zone as a location for international investment in manufacturing and international traded services.
Managing and developing the National Technological Park in Limerick.
Tourism marketing and new product development in the Shannon Region.
Managing commercial tourism businesses, e.g. castle banquets and day-visitor attractions, through a subsidiary company - Shannon Castle Banquets & Heritage.
In conjunction with other agencies, developing the Shannon Estuary as an integrated coastal zone and an international tourism and industrial location.
Stimulating development at local and regional levels to ensure economic inclusion and balanced spatial development.