R470 road (Ireland)

Ralahine (Irish, Ráth Fhlaithín) is a townland of County Clare, it is best known for its historic and extraordinary experiment in communism in 1831, long before communism, as we have come to know it, became a reality. The Ralahine Commune was a cooperative society and commune founded in 1831 on the estate of John Vandeleur at Ralahine, Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare, Ireland. In an attempt to keep his tenants away from secret societies like the "Ribbonmen", he brought a socialist named Edward Thomas Craig from England to advise him on the establishment of the commune, which came into existence on 7 November 1831.

Ballycar Castle stood in the parish of Newmarket-on-Fergus, near the road between Limerick and Galway, 3 miles (5 km) from Sixmilebridge, 9 miles (14 km) from Limerick, and 7 miles (11 km) from Ennis it was said to have been built before 1570 and was a ruin before 1681 when it was sketched by Thomas Dineley.Ballycar Castle was said to have been built by Connor McHugh-McLoghlin-McNamara, but does not appear among the list of castles in 1570. In 1580 it belonged to Donogh O’Brien. The Castle, and two plowlands, of Ballycarhy were passed in the Earl of Thomond’s patent of 1620. In 1655, a lease of Ballycar Castle, &c., "as heretofore held by George Colpoys, deceased", was made by the Earl of Thomond to John Colpoys, with the condition to supply an armed Protestant horseman, provided for a month. This lease was converted in 1714 into a fee farm, and by the 1890s had passed to heirs female.The castle was a ruin when it was sketched by Thomas Dineley in 1680 and had disappeared by the 1890s. The house that had been built on the site (and which had last been occupied by a magistrate), was by then a roofless ruin.

Bunratty Lower is a barony located in County Clare, Ireland. This ancient unit of land division is in turn divided into fourteen civil parishes.

Tomfinlough (Irish: Tuaim Fhionnlocha) is a civil parish in County Clare, Ireland. A Christian establishment was first made here around 540 AD. The parish lands were often raided by Irish, Viking, Norman and English forces in the years that followed. The church was allowed to fall into ruins during the period when the Catholic Church was penalized in Ireland.

Drumline (Irish: Drom Laoinn) is a civil parish of County Clare, Ireland, located about 20 kilometres (12 mi) northwest of Limerick, just north of Shannon.

Mooghaun (Irish: Múchán) is a late Bronze Age hill fort located in County Clare, Ireland. It is a well preserved, recently excavated site, occupying an entire hill with wide views of the surrounding lands. Believed to be the largest hill fort in Ireland, it is one of the region's main tourist attractions.

Newmarket-on-Fergus, historically known as Corracatlin (Irish: Cora Chaitlín, meaning 'Caitlín's weir'), is a town in County Clare, Ireland. It is 13 kilometres from Ennis, 8 kilometres from Shannon Airport, and 24 kilometres from Limerick.

Newmarket-on-Fergus is a parish in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is centred on Newmarket-on-Fergus, County Clare in Ireland.

Hurlers Cross (Irish: Crois na hIomána) is a small village in County Clare, Ireland. It is situated close to Shannon Town and 6 km (3.7 mi) from both Sixmilebridge and Newmarket-on-Fergus. It forms a part of Newmarket-on-Fergus parish.

Ballymarkahan Castle is a ruined tower house in the parish of Quin, in County Clare, Ireland. It was listed by Irish antiquarian T. J. Westropp as one of the 195 "lesser castles", or peel towers, of County Clare in 1899, by which time it was already a ruin. It was mentioned as a ruin in the Ordnance Survey Letters of John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry in 1839. It is marked on the Ordnance Survey map of 1842. The castle dates from the fifteenth century, some time after the construction of Quin Abbey, and was built by the MacNamara family, who built a number of castles in the area, including nearby Knappogue Castle. According to Westropp, it was built in 1430 by "Donall, son of Shane an Gabhaltais."

Clonloghan (Irish: Cluain Lócháin) is a civil parish of County Clare, Ireland, located 21.7 kilometres (13.5 mi) by road northwest of Limerick, just north of Shannon.

Shannon, officially - but largely unused - St. Senan's Parish, is a parish in County Clare and part of the Tradaree grouping of parishes within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Killaloe. It is a split off of the parish of Newmarket-on-Fergus: 205 As of 2021, the co-parish priest is Arnold Rosney.The main church of the parish is the Church of the Immaculate Mother of God, built in 1966.: 205 The second church of the parish is the Church of St. John and St. Paul. This church was built in 1980. The bell was a donation of the Kilnasoolagh Church of Ireland parish and was used in the defunct church of Sixmilebridge. The bell had an engraving from 1771. The third church is the Adoration Chapel for Eucharistic Adoration, named as such in 1996. It began its career as an oratory dedicated to Our Lady of the Wayside.: 206 The first church in the parish was an oratory on Shannon Airport, that served travellers, airport staff and later inhabitants of Shannon Town. It was demolished when the old terminal was replaced by a new terminal building. The original oratory was serviced by the clergy of Newmarket-on-Fergus.: 205