Mountshannon (Irish: Baile Uí Bheoláin, meaning 'townland of Ó Beoláin', historically anglicised as Ballybolan)[2] is a village in east County Clare, Ireland.

The village was designed and built from scratch by Alexander Woods, a Limerick merchant, who intended it as a purely Protestant settlement from which the surrounding Catholic population would be so impressed by the thrift and industry of the settlers that they would quickly convert to the Reformed Church; even as late as the 1830s there was not a single Catholic resident in the village.

[citation needed] Mountshannon was home to the last manually operated telephone exchange in Ireland.

The island has a round tower, and the ruins of several small churches, as well as part of four high crosses and a holy well.

Alongside is a picnic area made out of wood carved by local artists, encircled by willow hedging.

In early May 2013, the first eaglets were born in Ireland since the re-introduction programme began; one in the Killarney National Park and two here.