Strategic Location

County Offaly has the huge advantage of being strategically located in the Midlands, right in the centre of Ireland, a Gateway county with modern primary road networks that connect it – east and west, north and south – to all the major cities and towns in Ireland.

Dublin, Cork, Shannon and Galway are all under 90 minutes drive, with excellent roads such as the new N6 motorway, which will pass 3 miles from Tullamore at Kilbeggan, giving easy access to the international airports at Dublin, Cork and Shannon and the major seaports at Dublin, Cork, Rosslare and Waterford. There are multiple connections to the main railway routes.

A number of local companies provide a highly efficient logistics support service geared to supply chain management requirements - giving advantageous speed to market access to the European marketplace.

"Our location in Offaly has allowed us easy access to our customer base throughout the country, at costs that compare very favourably to other parts of the country," says Ciarán Guinan, Managing Director of Ferbane based Brosna Press Print & Design.

Property and land are competitively priced, and particularly so in comparison with Dublin and other centres. The lease prices for industrial space are on average 40% less than in Dublin. Retail unit prices are 4 times cheaper. Office space is 35% cheaper.*

Offaly has a wide range of quality sites, industrial buildings, factory and warehouse space and modern office developments for businesses locating in the county. There are several IDA-developed, local authority and privately-owned quality business and technology parks with the necessary telecommunications, utilities infrastructure and buildings/site options to cater for the needs of small, medium and large companies.

* Figures based on Annual Property Survey 2005 IAVI