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County Clare Travel Guide

After stepping off the plane at Shannon Airport, your first sight of Ireland will be the rich green fields and rolling hills of County Clare. Perhaps that explains why, to many non-Irish, this is the landscape the world associates with Ireland—it was, for many years, the world's first view of it. From the airport, if you turn left off the main road, the barren, rocky Atlantic coast awaits you; if you continue north, you'll eventually make your way to the charming county town of Ennis and then to the gravely beautiful limestone landscape of the Burren. Read More

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