Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Ennis

Ennis, co. town, township, and ry. sta., Drumcliff par., co. Clare, on river Fergus, 23 miles NW. of Limerick and 151 m. W. of Dublin by rail, 469 ac., pop. 6307; 4 Banks, 4 newspapers. Market-day, Saturday. It has some fine remains of an abbey. The Fergus is navigable to the vil. of Clare, whence corn and timber are shipped. Ennis returned 1 member to Parliament till 1885.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

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Feature Description: "county town, township, and railway station"   (ADL Feature Type: "capitals")
Administrative units: Clare IrlC
Place: Ennis

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