Ennistymon

Ennistymon or Ennistimon (Irish: Inis Díomáin) is a country market town in County Clare, near the west coast of Ireland.

In addition to The Falls Hotel, and a number of B&Bs, there are also several pubs which host Irish traditional musicians.

Route 350 links Ennistymon to Ennis, Lahinch, Cliffs of Moher, Doolin (where it is possible to connect with a ferry to the Aran Islands), Lisdoonvarna and Galway.

Teach Ceoil Saint Andrews is a Gothic revival Church of Ireland from the 1830s which was converted to a hall and cultural centre in 1989.

Also in ruins is the nearby Protestant church and graveyard, built by the Archdeacon of Kilfenora James Kenny (appointed in 1775).

Located across from Palladian Ennistymon Hospital, itself built on the grounds of the local workhouse (Union of Kilmanaheen), it was erected by a combined effort of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH), Board of Erin, Board of America and Clare County Council.

[10] The account centred on a note that was pinned to the torn shirt of a barefoot orphan boy who was left at the workhouse door on the freezing cold morning of 25 February 1848.

The note read: Gentlemen, There is a little boy named Michael Rice of Lahinch aged about 4 years.

He is an orphan, his father having died last year and his mother has expired on last Wednesday night, who is now about to be buried without a coffin!!

-- Rob S. Constable'' One side of the memorial depicts a child standing before the workhouse door, while across from that is the head of an anguished mother and two hands clenched in frustration or anger above the sorrowful text of the pleading note.

Ennistymon, The Falls
The Monument "An Gorta Mor"
A view of Ennistymon.