Clonlara, officially Cloonlara ,
Clonlara, officially Cloonlara ,
Clonlara, officially Cloonlara ,Placenames Database of Ireland is a village in County Clare

County Clare

-History:There was a Neolithic civilisation in the Clare area — the name of the peoples is unknown, but the Prehistoric peoples left evidence behind in the form of ancient dolmen; single-chamber megalithic tombs, usually consisting of three or more upright stones...

, Ireland

Republic of Ireland

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Sports

Clonlara has a GAA

Gaelic Athletic Association

The Gaelic Athletic Association is an amateur Irish and international cultural and sporting organisation focused primarily on promoting Gaelic games, which include the traditional Irish sports of hurling, camogie, Gaelic football, handball and rounders...

 club and an equestrian centre.Clonlara GAAClonlara Equestrian Centre

Natives

Irish rugby union player Marcus Horan

Marcus Horan

Marcus Horan is an Irish rugby union player who plays loose-head-prop for Munster and Ireland.Horan was educated at St. Munchin's College and Limerick Institute of Technology...

 and Irish hurler Darach Honan were born in the village as was Jan O'Sullivan (née Gale)

Jan O'Sullivan

Jan O'Sullivan is an Irish Labour Party politician. She is a Teachta Dála for Limerick City constituency and is the current Minister of State for Trade and Development.-Personal life:...

, Labour Party Teachta Dála (TD) for Limerick East.

Clonlara Affair

In 1956 in Clonlara, a local curate had a local group beat up two Jehovah's Witnesses and burn the literature which the two had been trying to distribute. Taoiseach

Taoiseach

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 John A. Costello "responded to a protest from Bishop Joseph Rodgers of Killaloe

Killaloe

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 by writing that he appreciated 'the just indignation aroused among the clergy and the people by the activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses.'"Clonlara affair of 1956

See also

• List of towns and villages in Ireland