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Introduction

Offaly, county in Leinster province, central Republic of Ireland, bounded on the north by Westmeath and Meath, on the east by Kildare, on the south-east by Laois, on the south-west by Tipperary, and on the west by Galway and Roscommon. It has a land area of 1,998 sq km (771 sq mi).