Ennis

Ennis, a municipal borough of County Clare, Ireland, on the Fergus, 25 miles NW. of Limerick, and 151 WSW. of Dublin by rail, is a neat town, with some good houses. Here are the Catholic cathedral of Killaloe diocese, a fine courthouse, the Clare lunatic asylum, large flour-mills, a school founded by Erasmus Smith (1689), a column to O'Connell (1863), and a memorial to the 'Manchester martyrs.' Till 1885 Ennis returned one member to parliament. Pop. (1851) 7840; (1891) 5460.