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unusual facts about Corofin, County Clare


Frederick William Burton

Sir Frederic William Burton RHA (8 April 1816 – 16 March 1900) was an Irish painter born in Corofin, County Clare.


Act of Settlement 1662

The 1652 Act ordered that all confiscated lands east of the Shannon (Ulster, Leinster and Munster) be cleared and the inhabitants transplant themselves to the west (to Connacht and County Clare), to be replaced by English Puritans (who were later to be known as Dissenters).

Ann McNamara

McNamara was born in County Clare, Ireland, to local farmers Kathy and Patrick McNamara, the second youngest of seven children.

Burren Action Group

The Burren Action Group was a group of people from County Clare in Ireland who opposed plans during the 1990s by the Office of Public Works to develop a large scale interpretative centre at Mullaghmore in the local Burren area.

Caherdavin

To the south and west is the River Shannon whilst to the east is the old Limerick city boundary Borough and to the north is the boundary with County Clare.

Canada Warbler

The first record was seen in Iceland, and the second was of a first-winter female which was found in Kilbaha, County Clare, Ireland in October 2006.

Cathreim Thoirdhealbhaigh

Cathreim is written mostly in prose, describing the wars between the Irish and the Normans over the area now known as County Clare in the Thomond region of Ireland, itself a portion of northern Munster.

Channel South

Channel South is a cable television channel operating in Cork, Limerick, and parts of County Kerry, County Waterford, County Clare and South Tipperary since November 2008, Republic of Ireland.

Clair, New Brunswick

The name Clair finds its roots in the community named for County Clare in Ireland.

Contention of the bards

The spark came in 1616, after the final annexation of the modern County Clare (containing part of the ancient kingdom of Thomond) to the Eberian province of Munster (whereupon the Earl of Thomond was appointed president of the province) and the death in exile of the last great Eremonian, Hugh O'Neill.

Corofin, County Clare

Also known as "The Gateway to the Burren" or "The Angler's Paradise", Corofin is the birthplace of renowned Irish painter Frederick William Burton.

Dysert O'Dea Monastery

Dysert O'Dea Church near Corofin in County Clare, Ireland stands on the site of an early Christian monastery which was reportedly founded by St. Tola in the 8th century.

Edward MacLysaght

The execution of close friends such as Conor Clune of Quin in November 1920 and the subsequent devastating raids on his farm resulted in his playing a far more active role in Sinn Féin as a loyal supporter of the new TD for Clare, Éamon de Valera.

Eugene O'Curry

He was born at Doonaha, near Carrigaholt, County Clare, the son of Eoghan Ó Comhraí, a farmer, and his wife Cáit.

Hayes' Hotel

The architects and founding members were Michael Cusack of County Clare, Maurice Davin, John K. Bracken, George McCarthy, P.J. Ryan of Tipperary, John Wise-Power, and John McKay.

Irish Damselfly

The northernmost site is in Co Donegal at Lough Napaste north of Milford and the southern limit is on the eastern edge of the Burren in Co Claree at Lough Skeardeen near Boston.

John O'Donohue

O'Donohue also devoted his energies to environmental activism, and is credited with helping spearhead the Burren Action Group, which opposed government development plans and ultimately preserved the area of Mullaghmore and the Burren, a karst landscape in County Clare.

Lachin y Gair

:"Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin believe this tune may have been learned in County Clare from Scottish sappers in the 1830s who were sent to the region as part of the British survey of the country."

Mary Xavier Molony

Baptised Belinda Molony to Francis and Catherine Maloney of Tulla, County Clare, she took the name Mary Xavier upon taking her vows as a Presentation Sister at Galway in 1825.

My Lovely Horse

The outdoor sequences were shot in the grounds of the Falls Hotel in Ennistymon, County Clare, Ireland.

Ó Lochlainn

Ó Lochlainn was the surname of a Gaelic-Irish family who resided in The Burren, County Clare.

Padraig Marrinan

He was commissioned to paint portraits of Éamonn Ceannt and John F. Kennedy by the Republic of Ireland's Department of Defence and the County Clare association in London, respectively.

Paul Flanagan

Born in Ballyea, County Clare, Flanagan first excelled at hurling whilst at school in St. Flannan's College.

Robert Ensko

Robert was the son of William Arthur Ensko I (c1830-1858) and Charlotte Coughlin (c1830-?) who emigrated from Ennis, County Clare, Ireland.

The Colleen Bawn

Sullivan took her out on the River Shannon near Kilrush, County Clare where he killed her with a musket, stripped her and dumped her body in the river, tied to a stone.

Thomas McCarthy Fennell

In 1863, Fennell became one of the first Fenians recruited from County Clare; he then helped recruit and organize a group of men in preparation for the Fenian Rising.

Thomond deeds

The Thomond deeds are Irish deeds relating to lands and property in Thomond, County Clare, preserved in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

Thomondgate

In times past the district was located at an important portal from the west of Ireland and the then Kingdom of Thomond (now County Clare) into the ancient City of Limerick, which was then confined to the Englishtown area of the city.

Thoor Ballylee

A native of Carron, County Clare, Hanley founded the society in 1961 to foster interest in the literary history of the district, especially that of Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W.B. Yeats.


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