Clare (Dáil constituency)

County Clare (Irish: Contae an Chláir) is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. Clare County Council is the local authority. The county had a population of 118,817 at the 2016 census. The county town and largest settlement is Ennis.

Éire Óg, Inis GAA Club is a Gaelic Athletic Association club in Ennis, Clare, Ireland. The club plays both Hurling and Gaelic Football at all age levels. Their most recent major achievement came on 7 November 2021 when they won the Clare Senior Football Championship for the nineteenth time, defeating Kilmurry-Ibrickane by 1–11 to 0–09 in Cusack Park. Prior to the official club formation in 1952, the Ennis Dalcassians represented the county capital. The Ennis Faughs were an amalgamation of the club with local rivals St. Joseph's, Doora-Barefield. They competed together from 1944 to 1956 and 1994-1995 when both clubs were not actually competing at senior level themselves. The Ennis Faughs competed in thirteen county football finals, winning five Senior Football titles in 1947, 1948, 1952, 1954 and again in 1994. They also won an Intermediate Hurling title in 1945, and an Intermediate Football title in 1946. When combined with their predecessors the Ennis Dalcassians, Éire Óg are the most successful club in Clare at senior level. A combined total of 34 county senior titles have been won by the capital town, 15 Senior Hurling titles (1990) and 19 Senior Football titles (2021).

The R475 road, known as the Kilrush Road, is a regional road in Ireland, located in central County Clare.

Cloughleigh, officially Cloghleagh (Irish: an Chloch Liath), is a townland and residential area of Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. It is mostly made up of bungalows, semi-detached houses and terraced houses. There is a community centre, playing fields and a playground in the estate, as well as a national school, which is financed directly by the State, but administered jointly by the State, a patron body, and local representatives. Nearby estates include Hermitage and Waterpark View. Cloughleigh falls within Ennis parish, and benefits from the local Church of Christ the King. Opened in 1978, it is one of the smallest churches in the parish.The community centre now houses Cloughleigh Youth Club. The club was founded in 1986 and originally met in a prefab for a number of years before moving to the community centre. Activities on offer include football, hockey, and dodgeball, arts and crafts, dancing, debates and quizzes. Members also participate in overseas exchanges, and staffing of a summer camp for twenty-five children between the ages of seven and ten.The RAPID Project in Cloughleigh, part of the Irish Government's drive for regeneration of deprived areas, was named one of the principal winners in Co-operation Ireland's annual Pride of Place Competition 2007.Most primary school students attend Cloughleigh National School, which is located on the estate. Other students attend Ennis National School or the other primary schools throughout Ennis.

Ennis National School is a primary school in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland opened in 1897. It was a boys' school for 95 years before becoming co-educational in 1992. As of the 2018-–19 school year, it has 38 individuals in its teaching staff. The school's curriculum includes participating in "Ennis Information Age Schools", leading a poetry project. A team of pupils won the 2003 national Cadbury/NPC Challenge Quiz, out of 1,800 schools.Development of a replacement school on a new site was finally authorised by the Government in November 2006. This followed a long campaign by parents. The new building opened in 2014.

Saint Flannan's College is an Irish co-educational secondary school located in Ennis, County Clare, which takes its name from the 7th century patron saint of the Dál gCais. Formerly an all-boys boarding school, the first girls class was entered in 2002 and in 2005 the boarding school was closed. In 2003 an extension which added over 20 new rooms to the college was completed. A measure of the expansion that has taken place over the past thirty years is that in 1962, there were some 370 pupils, 140 of whom were day boys. Only 37 teachers were in attendance. By 2004, enrollment had risen to more than 1,001 students. Staff numbers had risen to 60. In September 2002, co-ed classes were introduced in First Year. In September 2003, a new wing containing extensive new facilities was opened. In the 2010-11 school year there were 1,206 students.

The Alice and Gwendoline Cave is a limestone cave in County Clare, Ireland. It is known as the site of brown bear bones bearing the mark of butchery, which have pushed back the first known human habitation of Ireland by over two thousand years.

St Columba's Church is a congregation of the Church of Ireland, part of the Anglican Communion, in Ennis, County Clare, western Ireland. St. Columba's was built between 1868 and 1871 as the new building for Drumcliffe Parish to the design by architect Francis Bindon. Previous locations for the parish include Ennis Friary which was vacated by the Franciscan Order in the early nineteenth century. The present building was the last Anglican Church to be built in Ireland before its disestablishment by the Irish Church Act 1869. It is an example of Gothic revival architecture, and its large size bears testimony to the fact that Anglicans were formerly more numerous than they are today, although they are now part of a growing minority of non-Catholics in Ennis and County Clare. Memorials in the church include a wooden grave cross from Ypres, a reminder of World War I (1914–1918). The church hall is accommodated in the rear of the building. This was constructed around 1982-3 during the ministry of the former Dean of Limerick Maurice Talbot. A foyer and meeting hall, with kitchen and toilets were incorporated within the Church from space at the rear of St Columba’s.

The Diocese of Killaloe ( kil-ə-LOO; Irish: Deoise Chill Dalua) is a Roman Catholic diocese in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly. The cathedral church of the diocese is the Cathedral of Ss Peter and Paul in Ennis, County Clare. The incumbent bishop of the diocese is Fintan Monahan.

The Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul (also known as Ennis Cathedral), is the cathedral church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is located in Ennis, County Clare, Ireland.

Ennis Town Hall (Irish: Halla Baile Inse) is a municipal building in O'Connell Street, Ennis, County Clare, Ireland. The building accommodated the offices of Clonmel Urban District Council until 1965 but is now used as the banqueting suite of a local hotel.

Clare Museum (Irish: Músaem an Chláir) is a museum which documents the history of County Clare. The museum is housed in the former Sisters of Mercy Convent in the centre of Ennis.