Located in the province of Munster in Ireland, County Clare borders the Atlantic Ocean. The 7th largest of the 32 counties, County Clare, is surrounded by Munster, County Limerick, County Tipperary, and County Galway. It is nicknamed “Banner County.” The oldest known evidence of human activity can be found in County Clare, dating back to 10,500 BC in the Paleolithic era. Being one of the wealthiest places in Ireland for tombs, it is no wonder it draws many tourists annually.","Clans also contained septs or branches, which were founded when powerful or prominent clansmen established their own important families. The chief of the clan was succeeded according to the Celtic system","Munster is the southernmost of the four Irish provinces.
As of 2006, it has a population of 1,172,170 people, and contains the counties of Clare, Cork, Kerry, Limerick, Tipperary, and Waterford. These","Ireland was first settled around 6000 BC by a race of Middle Stone Age hunter-gatherers who lived there. They tended to hunt such creatures as the megaceros, a giant variety of deer so large that their antlers spanned ten feet. ","Founded in 1788, New South Wales (NSW) was the first penal colony for England. British explorer, Captain James Cook, first discovered the east coast of Australia while attempting to examine the planet Venus in order to determine the distance from the Earth to the Sun in 1770, he first named it New Wales, then later New South Wales.","The First Fleet departed from Portsmouth, on the south coast of England, on May 13, 1787 and sailed for around 250 days. The fleet was comprised of eleven ships - six prison ships, three equipment ships, and two navy ships, Sirius and Supply. After an extremely long journey, the First Fleet finally arrived at Botany Bay, located in Sydney, New South Wales, between January 18 and 20, 1788.","Dutch navigator Willem Jansz aboard the Duyfken was the first European to land in waht is now known as Australia in 1606. He charted much of the Gulf of Carpentaria, located on the northern coast of Australia. In 1616, another Dutch captain, Dirk Hartog, landed on the west coast of Australia near Shark Bay.",null],"lnksHoverSummaryImgURL":[null,"/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/books.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/clare_ireland.webp?pos=floatRight","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/knight.webp?pos=floatRight","","","","/cdn/webp/i/kb/200w/first_fleet_ship.webp?pos=floatRight","",null],"mode":"","s":"O'Dea","sU":"DAY","oC":"IR","o":"Irish","o2":"Scottish","cOk":true,"c":"/dpreview/DAY/IR/O%27Dea/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","c2":"/dpreview/ANDERSON/SC/Anderson/family-crest-coat-of-arms.png","v":"1","sections":["","SettlersUS","SettlersCA","SettlersAU","SettlersNZ","SettlersZA","SettlersWI","Settlers","ContemporaryNotable","ContemporaryNotables","HistoricEvents","RelatedStories","Motto","SuggestedReading","Citations",""]}
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