County CLARE, a maritime county of the province of MUNSTER, bounded on the east and south by Lough Derg and the river Shannon,
which successively separate it from the counties
of Tipperary, Limerick,
and Kerry, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean,
and on the north-west by Galway bay; while on the north and north-east an imaginary boundary separates it from the county of Galway
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