Ireland Guide
Limerick and Clare
County Clare
Renowned worldwide for its vibrant musical traditions, County Clare draws a multitude of aficionados to its numerous pub sessions as well as major festivals such as the Willie Clancy Summer School. Its county town, Ennis, is an animated place with many excellent music pubs and some atmospheric religious remains, further examples of which are dotted around the countryside, such as at Quin AbbeyQuin Abbey and the settlement on Scattery Island.
Elsewhere the county's attractions are largely set beside the water, mostly along its Atlantic shoreline and most dramatically at the vertiginous Cliffs of Moher. In North Clare the heights of The Burren, a mass of jumbled, broken limestone, provide desolate though dramatic landscapes and numerous Stone and Iron Age antiquities.
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