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Ennis: Located 10 miles North of Shannon Airport.
County Clare: Located Mid-South West of Ireland.
Towns of County Clare: Ennis, Shannon, Kilrush, Kilkee and Killaloe. |
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History of Ennis
Place Name: Ennis, the town takes its name from
the Gaelic word "Inis", which means island which was formed
between two streams of the River Fergus and on which the
foundations of the Ennis Abbey were laid.
History: The town of Ennis owes its origin to
the O' Briens of Thomond who moved from Limerick and settled
in Clonroad, Ennis where they built their castle (at the
north-east of the modern town) between 1208 and 1216. An
O' Brien invited the Franciscans to establish a settlement
within his domain in C. 1240. The O' Briens ruled until
the 16th century when they moved to Bunratty Castle.
Ennis became a thriving market town in the late 18th
century and this expansion continued unabated throughout
the 19th century (except the period after the famine in
C.1850). Ennis today continues to expand and develop and
is one of the few towns in Ireland to retain balance between
the past and the present. It is estimated that the population
in Ennis is over 20,000 at the moment |
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Ireland is the third largest island in Europe and the
twentieth largest in the world. It lies to the northwest
of Continental Europe. It is surrounded by hundreds of islands
and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish
Sea, is the island of Great Britain. Politically, the state
known as Ireland covers five sixths of the island, with
Northern Ireland, a part of the United Kingdom, occupying
the remainder in the northeast. The name 'Ireland' derives
from Old Irish Ériu (in modern Irish, Éire) with the addition
of the Germanic word 'land'.
The population of the island is slightly under six million
(2006), with 4,239,848 in the Republic of Ireland (1.7 million
in Greater Dublin ) and about 1.7 million in Northern Ireland
(0.6 million in Greater Belfast).
Nationality: Irish.
Languages: English and Gaelic.
Provinces: Connaught, Leinster, Munster and Ulster. |
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Munster
Clare • Cork • Kerry • Limerick • Tipperary • Waterford
Leinster
Carlow • Dublin • Kildare • Kilkenny • Laois • Longford • Louth •
Meath • Offaly • Westmeath • Wexford • Wicklow
Connaught
Galway • Leitrim • Mayo • Roscommon • Sligo
Ulster (Republic of Ireland)
Cavan • Donegal • Monaghan
Ulster (Northern Ireland)
Antrim • Armagh • Derry • Down • Fermanagh • Tyrone
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Location
County Clare
