tourist attractions clare

The county courthouse, on a riverside site at New Bridge Road, is an impressive building fronted with a good ionic portico. The vestibule has an 1850 statue of Sir Michael O Loghlen of Dromconora House, Ennis who was the first catholic to be made Master of the Rolls since Penal times....

Clare Museum, Ennis, is located in a beautifully restored former convent built by the Sisters of Mercy congregation in 1861. The museum exhibition "The Riches of Clare: its people, place and treasures," occupies two galleries and incorporates the traditional method of displaying original artefacts from the county with modern interpretive tools such as colourful display panels, audio visual and computer interactive presentations, models, some replicas and commissioned art pieces....

The eco-friendly Cliffs Of Moher Visitor Centre is set into the hillside and offers an all weather experience. The restaurant offers panoramic views of the Cliffs of Moher and Liscannor bay from the remarkable feature windows. 
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Created by nature and carved out of limestone, Aillwee Cave is one of many caves beneath The Burren....

This company produces Ireland's finest oak smoked Atlantic salmon. One can discover the ancient tradition of cold smoking salmon and learn more about the folklore of salmon. See audio visual displays in four languages. Afterwards, visitors can relax in the 100 year old pub, the Roadside Tavern. The visitor centre also includes a gourmet store and craft shop specialising in locally produced foods and crafts. A worldwide mail order service is available....

It has long been identified - though without any certainty - as the seat of Brian Boru, High King of Ireland from 1002 until his death at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014. Coins found in an excavation of the site certainly showed that a house had been occupied inside during the 11th century, and the Annals of the Four Masters tell us that it was raided and demolished in 1116.
The site proved to have been inhabited at two separate periods, and the house belonged to the first period of...

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Discover this scenic and old navigation location where the River Shannon flows out of Lough Derg. Christian antiquities grace the charming townland of Killaloe-Ballina. Imaginative exhibition....

The word Burren derives its name from Boireann, which means 'rocky land' in Gaelic - an apt name for this vast limestone plateau in northwest County Clare.
In the 1640's Cromwell's surveyor described it as 'a savage land, yielding neither water enough to drown a man nor tree to hang him, nor soil enough to bury'.
Few trees manage to grow in this desolate place, yet other plants thrive. The Burren is a unique botanical environment in which Mediterranean and alpine...

Ireland's most popular attraction, Bunratty Castle is also the most complete and authentic medieval castle in Ireland....