County Clare is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
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County Clare is a county in Ireland, in the Southern Region and the province of Munster, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
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County Clare is the seventh largest of Ireland's 32 traditional counties in area and the 19th largest in terms of population.
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County Clare is divided into the baronies of Bunratty Lower, Bunratty Upper, Burren, Clonderalaw, Corcomroe, Ibrickan, Inchiquin, Islands, Moyarta, Tulla Lower and Tulla Upper.
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County Clare contains The Burren, a unique karst region, which contains rare flowers and fauna.
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County Clare'storians have found the tribes on the west of Ireland the most difficult to identify with known peoples; however, historians William Camden and Charles O'Conor speculated a possible connection between the Gangani and the Concani, one of the eleven tribes in the confederacy of the Cantabri in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula.
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One is that the name is derived from Thomas de County Clare who was deeply embroiled in local politics and fighting in the 1270s and 1280s.
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An alternative hypothesis is that the county name Clare comes from the settlement of Clare, whose Irish name refers to a crossing over the River Fergus.
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About 1600, County Clare was removed from the presidency of Connaught and made a presidency in its own right under the Earl of Thomond.
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Clare's county nickname is the Banner County, for which various origins have been suggested: the banners captured by Clare's Dragoons at the Battle of Ramillies; or the banner of "Catholic emancipation" raised by Daniel O'Connell's victory in an 1828 by-election for County Clare that led to Parliament passing the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829.
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Since 1921, County Clare has been represented in Dail Eireann by the constituency of Clare, which currently has four Teachtai Dala .
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At various times, portions of County Clare have been in other constituencies: Clare–South Galway, Galway West, Limerick East and Limerick City .
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Prominent former TDs for County Clare include Eamon de Valera, who became Taoiseach and President and former president Patrick Hillery.
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Ennis in County Clare is the birthplace of Grammy-nominated songstress Maura O'Connell whose grandmother started a fish market in the town.
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Andy Irvine has written two songs celebrating County Clare: one is "West Coast of Clare", in which he mentions Spanish Point and Milltown Malbay.
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County Clare is served by two national primary roads—a classification referring to the major routes between major urban centres in Ireland.
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