County Clare – Choose a Topic

County Clare, highlighted.

Choose from topics below for stories of people, families, events and places connected to County Clare’s past.

Family Histories

• Blake of Meelick House
• Butler of Castlecrine
• Ievers of Sixmilebridge, Mount Ievers and Ballylusky
• Ievers of Sri Lanka
• De Ridelesford of Corofin
• Kerins of Craggaknock
• McDonnell of County Clare
• O’Davoren of Cahermacnaghten
• O’Halloran: Merchants of New Zealand

Places in County Clare

• Ennis (Past Tracks)
• Crotty’s Pub – Kilrush
• O’Loclainn’s Whiskey Bar, Ballyvaughan

Vanishing Ireland (Clare)

• Paddy Gleeson (1904-2010) – Farmer of Bodyke, East Clare
• John Joe Conway (1935-2019)
• Mick Kenneally (1939-2013) – Potato & Cattle Farmer, Cloonanaha
• Mike Murphy (1937-2012) – Fiddler & Taxi Driver, Ennistymon
• PJ Davis (1924-2009) – The Mechanic of Ennistymon
• Mick Staunton (c.1924/1938-2017) – Fruit Seller – Kinvara, County Galway
• Tom Frawley (1920-2014) – Publican – Lahinch
• John Shannon (1922-2005) – Cattle Farmer of Ennistymon
• Chris Droney (1925-2020) – Concertina Player & Dairy Farmer, Bellharbour
• Michael ‘Patsy’ Flanagan (1924-2009) – Drummer and Farmer – Bartra, Lahinch
• Robbie McMahon (1926-2012)  – Singer & Farmer – Spancil Hill
• Eddie Lenihan, storyteller  – A Vanishing Ireland podcast

People of County Clare

• Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847) – The Liberator
• Honest Tom Steele (1788-1848) – Landlord and Repealer
• Commander Thomas McDonnell (1788-1864)
• Father Eugene Macnamara (1814-1853), a maverick priest from Corofin, referenced in Herald and Pandora: A chronicle of Panama belles, Irish Colonies and Giant Tortoises
• Bindon Blood Stoney (1828–1909), Father of Irish Concrete – mother from Cranagher and Rockforest, near Spancelhill and Quin.
• Dr George Johnstone Stoney (1826–1911), Father of the Electron – mother from Cranagher and Rockforest, near Spancelhill and Quin.
• Mary Spring Rice (1880-1924)
• Tenducci: The Italian Castrato & His Irish Wife
• Australia’s Irish Royalty: Jim & Sarah Scullin

Articles on County Clare

• Mesolithic Clare – The Bear from Clare
• County Clare in the Neolithic Period
• County Clare in the Bronze Age
• Valley of the Raths – Cashels & Ringforts of the Burren
• The O’Davoren Law School, The Burren
• If It’s Music You Want, Go To County Clare
• A Short History of Irish Gold
• The Normans on the Irish Waterways
• The Hunting Of The Shark – Deep-Sea Fishing Off The Coast Of Co Clare
• Music & Surf from Dingle to Doolin (2012)