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County Clare

County Clare is in the of Ireland. The eastern part is farmland, dotted with ruined abbeys and small market towns; the west and north are bare limestone ridges and cliffs facing the Atlantic weather.
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is the county town of County Clare in Ireland. It's a market town with several historic and religious sites. It also has accommodation and other visitor amenities, and is the public transport hub for the county. In 2022 its population was 28,000.

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The is a large area of northern County Clare, in the west of Ireland, with karst landscape - a great bare limestone sheet sculpted by water action.

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is a town and airport in County Clare in the west of Ireland. The airport came first, as a stopover for early transatlantic flights, then an industrial zone and new town grew beside it.

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is a small community in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, with a population of about 300. The main attraction is the Cliffs of Moher, and it's also an access point for reaching the and The .

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is a small town in County Clare in the west of Ireland. It was the seaside resort of Limerick in Victorian times, when wealthy merchants families retired here for the summer season, and built the many substantial summer houses that are now small hotels and guesthouses.

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is a village in County Clare and was the birthplace of Irish hero Brian Boru. It's on the west bank of the River Shannon, and in 2022 had a population of 1700.

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is a small seaside resort in County Clare in the west of Ireland. In Irish it's An Leacht, "the peninsula" and also known as Leacht Uí Chonchubhair, "Cairn of O'Connor" for the chieftain slain at Dough Castle.

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is a tiny village in County Clare, with a population of 150 in 2022. It's the most northern of a string of little places, also described here, as the road leaves the low country at Corofin and climbs the valley through Kilnaboy and Leamaneh.

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is a town in County Clare on the west coast of Ireland, with a population of 900 in 2022. Also spelled "Miltown", it's best known for its traditional Irish music, with a week-long summer festival.

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is a village in County Clare, in the of west Ireland. Its big attraction is Castle, which has a folk museum and medieval-themed banquets.

County Clare

Latitude of center
52.8333° or 52° 50′ north
Longitude of center
-9° or 9° west
Population
119,000
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Geo­Names ID
2965479
Wiki­data ID
Q181862
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Wu Chinese—“County Clare” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مقاطعة كلير”
  • Arabic: “مقاطعه كلير”
  • Armenian: “Քլեր”
  • Asturian: “Condáu de Clare”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kler qraflığı”
  • Balinese: “County Clare”
  • Basque: “Clare konderria”
  • Basque: “Clareko konderri”
  • Basque: “Clareko konderria”
  • Belarusian: “графства Клэр”
  • Belarusian: “Клэр (графства)”
  • Belarusian: “Клэр”
  • Bengali: “কাউন্টি ক্লেয়ার”
  • Breton: “Kontelezh An Clár”
  • Breton: “Kontelezh Clare”
  • Bulgarian: “Клеър”
  • Catalan: “comtat de Clare”
  • Catalan: “Comtat de Clare”
  • Cebuano: “An Clár”
  • Chinese: “Clare Kūn”
  • Chinese: “克莱尔郡”
  • Chinese: “克萊爾郡”
  • Croatian: “Clare (okrug)”
  • Croatian: “Clare”
  • Czech: “Clare”
  • Czech: “Contae an Chláir”
  • Czech: “County Clare”
  • Czech: “Hrabství Clare”
  • Danish: “County Clare”
  • Dutch: “County Clare”
  • Esperanto: “Contae an Chláir”
  • Esperanto: “County Clare”
  • Esperanto: “Graflando Clare”
  • Estonian: “Clare’i krahvkond”
  • Estonian: “Clare’i maakond”
  • Finnish: “Clare”
  • Finnish: “Claren kreivikunta”
  • French: “Clare”
  • French: “comté de Clare”
  • French: “Comté de Clare”
  • Galician: “Condado de Clare”
  • Georgian: “კლერის საგრაფო”
  • German: “County Clare”
  • German: “IE-CE”
  • Greek: “Κλέιρ”
  • Greek: “κομητεία Κλέιρ”
  • Gujarati: “કાઉન્ટી ક્લેર”
  • Hebrew: “מחוז קלייר”
  • Hindi: “काउंटी क्लेयर”
  • Hungarian: “Clare megye”
  • Icelandic: “County Clare”
  • Indonesian: “County Clare”
  • Irish: “An Clár”
  • Irish: “Clár”
  • Irish: “Co. an Cláir”
  • Irish: “Contae an Chláir”
  • Italian: “Clare”
  • Italian: “Contea del Clare”
  • Italian: “Contea di Clare”
  • Italian: “County Clare”
  • Japanese: “クレア県”
  • Kannada: “ಕೌಂಟಿ ಕ್ಲೇರ್”
  • Korean: “클래어주”
  • Korean: “클레어 주”
  • Kurdish: “County Clare”
  • Latin: “Comitatus Clarensis”
  • Latvian: “Klēras grāfiste”
  • Lithuanian: “Klario grafystė”
  • Lithuanian: “Klaris”
  • Lithuanian: “Klero grafystė”
  • Macedonian: “Клер”
  • Malay: “County Clare”
  • Manx: “Coontae yn Chlaair”
  • Marathi: “काउंटी क्लेअर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Clare Kūn”
  • Northern Frisian: “Clare”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Clare”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “County Clare”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Contae an Cláir”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “County Clare”
  • Norwegian: “Clare”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Clarscīr”
  • Persian: “شهرستان کلر”
  • Polish: “Clare”
  • Portuguese: “Condado de Clare”
  • Romanian: “Comitatul Clare”
  • Romanian: “Judeţul Clare”
  • Romanian: “Județul Clare”
  • Russian: “Графство Клэр”
  • Russian: “Клэр”
  • Scots: “Coontie Clare”
  • Scots: “Coonty Clare”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Contae a‘ Chláir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Contae an Chláir”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Contae an Chláire”
  • Serbian: “Kler”
  • Serbian: “Клер”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Clare”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “County Clare”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Grofovija Clare”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kler”
  • Sinhala: “ක්ලෙයාර් ප්‍රාන්තය”
  • Slovak: “Clare”
  • Slovenian: “County Clare”
  • Slovenian: “IE-CE”
  • Slovenian: “Okrožje Clare”
  • Spanish: “Condado de Clare”
  • Swahili: “Wilaya ya Clare”
  • Swedish: “Clare, Irland”
  • Swedish: “Clare”
  • Swedish: “Contae An Clar”
  • Swedish: “Contae An Clár”
  • Swedish: “County Clare”
  • Tajik: “Vilojati Kler”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Клер”
  • Tajik: “Вилояти Клея”
  • Tamil: “கவுண்டி கலர்”
  • Telugu: “కౌంటీ క్లేర్”
  • Thai: “แคลร์”
  • Turkish: “An Clár ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “An Clár”
  • Turkish: “Clár ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Clár”
  • Turkish: “Clare Co.”
  • Turkish: “Clare County”
  • Turkish: “Clare ilçesi”
  • Turkish: “Clare Kontluğu”
  • Turkish: “Co an Chláir”
  • Turkish: “Co Clare”
  • Turkish: “Co. an Chláir”
  • Turkish: “Co. Clare”
  • Turkish: “Contae an Chláir”
  • Turkish: “IE-CE”
  • Ukrainian: “графство Клер”
  • Ukrainian: “Клер (графство)”
  • Ukrainian: “Клер”
  • Urdu: “کاؤنٹی کلیئر”
  • Vietnamese: “Hạt Clare”
  • Welsh: “Swydd Clare”
  • Western Panjabi: “کلیر”
  • Wu Chinese: “克莱尔郡”
  • “County Clare”

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