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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]
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 ...
The following places in countries other than Ireland are named after places in Ireland. Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland. The following place names sometimes share strong ties with the original place ...
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.
Leitrim (Irish: Liatroim) is a historical barony in Ireland that lies partly in County Galway and partly in County Clare. [la 1] It is located in the south-eastern corner of County Galway and the north-eastern corner of County Clare. Prior to 1898, the entire barony was contained in County Galway.
Another explanation of the name is that the de Clare family gave the castle its name, since they had acquired land in Kilkenny and Thomond that included the castle. In 1590 County Clare was named after the castle, which is in a strategic location. [1] [2] Clarecastle (Clare Abbey) is a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. [3]
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 ...
The 1659 Pender's Census of Ireland gives a population of 40 adults over the age of 15 in Clare townland, all of whom were Irish, (in general the percentage of the Irish population aged under 15 runs at about 20% so the total population in 1659 would have been about 48). [8] The Clare Valuation Office books are available for 1840-1841.