town information around killaloe and scarrif

The road passes through high, forested ground. The highest point, Maghera Mountain to the left, is the site of a television mast. The village has the remains of a medieval parish church (St. Moculla). There are several prehistoric gallery graves in the vicinity.

Tulla is a fishing centre, with a number of small lakes dotted about which give good sport. The area is, in fact, known as the Clare Lakelands, a country of lakes and hills, the latter known as drumlins. The village is buil...

Feakle is doubly famous as the place in which the poet Brian Merriman taught as a School-master and as the home of Biddy Early, the wise woman or witch about whom Augusta Lady Gregory collected much traditional lore and published it in her Visions and Beliefs of the West of Ireland.

Brian Merriman was neither born nor did he die in Feakle (born Ennistymon 1749, died Limerick 1805) but he chose to be buried here where he had spent many years and made the location and background of his on...