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About Ennis

Ennis, Inis in Irish, is a town in County Clare, 31 km north-west of Limerick, with 24,253 people at the 2006 census. It stands on the M18, N68 and N85. The map gives it 10,960 buildings and 338 named streets, with 1,074 places named on them in 207 kinds, and 160 things to see in and around it. By the number of buildings on the map it is the largest of the 53 settlements this site covers in County Clare.

Population
24,253 at the 2006 census
Where
31 km north-west of Limerick, 190 km from Dublin
Position
52.8435° N, 8.9837° W, 3 m above sea level
Roads
M18, N68, N85, R352, R458, R469, R474 and R475
Governed
Clare County Council, in the province of Munster
Twinned with
Phoenix, United States
On the model
10,960 buildings, 338 streets, 1,074 named places in 207 kinds
Ennis - High Street - Aviva, Inside, etc
Ennis - High Street - Aviva, Inside, etc·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Ennis - 9 Lower Market Street - Moroney's Bar
Ennis - 9 Lower Market Street - Moroney's Bar·Joseph Mischyshyn, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

Ennis in order

13 of the places on this map carry a date on Wikidata, running from the seventh century to 2001. That is not a history of Ennis, and it is not written as one: it is the order in which the things still standing were built, which is the part a map can actually tell you.

the seventh century2001Inchicronan AbbeyGlór
The seventh century
  • the seventh centuryInchicronan AbbeyHistoric churches · 9.8 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The eighth century
  • the eighth centuryDysert O’DeaHistoric churches · 9.3 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The twelfth century
  • the twelfth centuryClare AbbeyHistoric churches · 1.9 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the twelfth centuryKillone AbbeyAbbeys · 4.4 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
The fifteenth century
  • the fifteenth centuryQuin AbbeyHistoric churches · 8.6 km from the centre · national monument of Ireland
  • the 1490sBallyhannon CastleCastles · 6.9 km from the centre
The nineteenth century
The twentieth century
The twenty-first century
  • 2001GlórTheatre · 470 m from the centre

County Clare since 1841

Every census of the county, which is the only way to see what happened to rural Ireland: the fall from the Famine runs for a century, and the recovery is recent.

286,39473,597127,93818412022

Source: Central Statistics Office, table F1001 'Population at Each Census', read through the PxStat API, read 2026-09-20.

What to see

Closest to the centre first, with how far each one is.

All 160 things to see

Getting around

By road

The map records the M18, N68, N85, R352, R458, R469, R474 and R475 running through Ennis. 49 car parks on the map.

By bus or train

There is a station in the settlement. 19 lines call at 55 stops here. Plan a journey for the day and time you are going.

Schools and services

17 school or colleges on the map.

Questions people ask

Where is Ennis?
In County Clare, in the province of Munster, 31 km north-west of Limerick and 190 km from Dublin, on the M18, N68 and N85.
How big is Ennis?
24,253 people at the 2006 census. On the map it is 10,960 buildings and 338 named streets.
What is there to see in Ennis?
160 things the map records in and around it, the closest being O'Connell Column, Ennis Tourist Office and Bishop Willie Walsh Plaza.
How do you get to Ennis?
19 bus and train lines call at 55 stops here in the published timetable, run by Bus Éireann, Citylink and Dublin Coach. There is a station in the settlement itself.
Has County Clare grown or shrunk?
The census counted 286,394 people in the county in 1841 and 127,938 in 2022.
10,960
buildings on the model
338
named streets
1074
named places
207
kinds of place

Buildings, streets, places, roads and position are OpenStreetMap, counted by this site rather than quoted from anywhere. Population, elevation, area and twinning are structured claims on Wikidata (item Q209128). County population is the Central Statistics Office. Journeys are the National Transport Authority’s published timetable. Every sentence on this page is written from those numbers; none of it is copied from a description of the place.

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