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The third-busiest airport in Ireland is located in Clare with the Shannon Airport, which officially opened in 1945. [54] Along with Dublin Airport and Cork Airport it is one of the three primary airports in the country, handling 3.62 million passengers in 2007. Shannon was the first airport in Ireland to receive transatlantic flights. [54]
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The Burren (/ ˈ b ʌr ə n / BURR-ən; Irish: Boirinn, meaning 'rocky district') [1] is a karst/glaciokarst landscape centred in County Clare, on the west coast of Ireland. [2] It measures around 530 square kilometres (200 sq mi), within the circle made by the villages of Lisdoonvarna, Corofin, Gort and Kinvara. [3]
Clare Island (Irish: Cliara or Oileán Chliara), also historically Inishcleer, [1] is a mountainous island guarding the entrance to Clew Bay in County Mayo, Ireland. Historically part of the kingdom of Umhaill , it is famous as the home of the 16th century pirate queen Gráinne O'Malley .
Ennis (Irish: Inis [ˈɪnʲɪʃ], meaning 'island' or 'river meadow') [2] is the county town of County Clare, in the mid-west of Ireland.The town lies on the River Fergus, north of where the river widens and enters the Shannon Estuary.
Clare Street (disambiguation), streets of this name; Clare GAA, responsible for Gaelic games in County Clare; Earl of Clare, an extinct title created three times, once each in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and Ireland; Viscount Clare, an extinct title in the Peerage of Ireland, created twice; Cyclone Clare, which struck Western ...
Shannon (Irish: Sionainn) or Shannon Town (Baile na Sionnainne), named after the river near which it stands, is a town in County Clare, Ireland. It was given town status on 1 January 1982. The town is located just off the N19 road, a spur of the N18/M18 road between Limerick and Ennis.
The newer formations are the drumlins and glacial valleys as a result of the last ice age, and the sinkholes and cave formations in the limestone regions of Clare. [7] [8] Ireland's geological history includes a wide range of elements, from volcanism and tropical seas to the last glacial period. Ireland was formed in two distinct parts, which ...