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Clara

County Offaly, Ireland
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About Clara

Clara is a town at the River Brosna in County Offaly and is the tenth biggest town in the midlands of Ireland. The metropolis has a population of three,242 2011 census, but some of housing estates lie outside the city boundary making the real population higher. Clara's nearby services consist of church buildings, banks, credit union, colleges, supermarkets, shops, garages, pubs, nightclubs and restaurants. It has its own Garda police and fire station while the Midlands Regional Hospital is positioned about eleven kilometres away in Tullamore.

While the city as we understand it today changed into hooked up through Quakers in the mid 18th century, there is evidence of community habitation for a while. Situated on the Esker Riada, the historical thoroughfare which related the east and west coasts of Ireland, numerous ring forts are to be determined within the nation-state surrounding the metropolis suggesting that the early settlement may had been an crucial staging put up for visitors. Just outdoor the town in Kilbride, the remnants of a twelfth-century monastery testifies to the lifestyles of a vibrant non secular presence. According to tradition this monastery was based via St Brigid of Kildare d.C 525 AD and is related by way of an ancient avenue to Durrow Abbey founded through St Colm Cille St Columba.

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