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Irish Narrow Gauge - Ennis

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Ennis - WCR

• osi 100m reference: R343769, map DM058
• Ennis - in Lewis's Topographical Dictionary of 1842
• map (25"): [WCRPT: m-5-p37-1917 ]
• track diagram: [WCRPT: d-7-p48- ]
• photos: [INGV1: b-5-p67-1950.07 b-5-p69-?1950 b-5-p76-1961.06 b-6-p68-1955 b-7-p65-1898.09.15 b-7-p65-1938.06.30 b-7-p69-1924.05.31 b-7-p69-1924.05.31 ]
  [IRHOS: b-5-p52-1938.06.30 ]
  [DTDGR b-6-p95-1961 ]
  [NLE6L: b-5-p7-1938 ]
  [WCRPT: b-5-p101-1924.05.31 b-5-p102-1931 b-5-p104-1950 b-5-p113- b-5-p118-1961.06.07 b-5-p162- b-5-p196-1952.08 b-5-p198-1961.01.31 b-5-p198-1961.06.07 b-5-p35-1950.05 b-5-p54-1948.06.19 b-5-p54-1950.07.04 b-5-p55-1947.07.11 b-5-p56-1947.08.16 b-5-p56-1954 b-5-p84-1932.06.08 b-5-p84-1950.07.04 b-5-p90-1924.05.31 b-5-p91-1947.08.16 b-5-p91-1953 b-5-p95-1933.06.08 b-6-p200-1992.05.04 b-6-p75-1920.05.12 ]
  [JIRRS: b-6-v20p359- ]
  [CLRLD: b-6-p29-1955]
• broad gauge tracks: [WCRPT: b-5-p149- ]
• engine shed: [INGV1: b-7-p70-1932.06.05 b-7-p70-?1930 ]
  [DTDGR b-5-p94-1938 ]
  [WCRPT: b-5-p121-1933 ]
• signal: [INGV1: b-5-p68-1950.07.04 b-7-p69-1932.06.08 ]
• station: [INGV1: b-5-p68-1950.07.04 ]
• trans-ship shed: [WCRPT: b-6-p75-1898-09.15 b-5-p36-1954 ]
• turntable: [WCRPT: b-5-p90- ]
• water tower: [INGV1: b-6-p69- ]
  [WCRPT: b-5-p36-1931.09.28 ]
• WCR workshops (built 1900): [INGV1: b-5-p70- ]
  [WCRPT: b-5-p110-1955.06.04 b-5-p142-1955 b-5-p121-1932.06.08 ]
• Cassell's 1899:

  Ennis (=="island"), county and market town (Saturdays) on the Fergus, parish of Drumcliff (q.v.), Mid county Clare, Ireland, 23 miles NW of Limerick ; acreage 469. The original name, of which the present is an abbreviation, denoted "the island meadow of the long rowing" ; Ennis was so called from its being surrounded by the Fergus. It is a neat and somewhat quaint little town, with narrow streets, but many good houses. A charter of incorporation granted by James I. has lapsed, and since 1885 the town has ceased to be a parliamentary borough. It is stated that at a period subsequent to the Anglo-Norman Conquest of Ennis was a flourishing seat of learning under the protection of the O'Briens, Princes of Thomond. About 1240 a Franciscan monastery was built here by Donogh Carbrac O'Brien, a portion of which was altered in modern times, and used as the church of the Protestant parish ; there is now a handsome new Protestant church replacing the old one. The remains of the abbey include a very fine Early English window of five lights, and within is preserved the carved chair of the abbot. The Roman Catholic church of Saints Peter and Paul, the cathedral of Killaloe diocese, is a large and imposing structure. A new Roman Catholic Diocesan College has recently been erected. The Court House, a very handsome edifice of the Roman Ionic order, dates from 1852. The other buildings include an Erasmus Smith grammar school (1689), which has been closed since 1891, Presbyterian and Methodist chapels, a Franciscan friary, the town-hall, Union workhouse (1841), county infirmary and lunatic asylum, and the market house. A column commemorating Daniel O'Connell (1865) stands on the site of the old court-house, and outside the town there is a monument to the "Manchester Martyrs," executed in 1867. Ennis has large flour-mills, and grain and timber are shipped from Clare Castle, two miles farther down the river, coal being the chief import. Population: 5,460.