History Was County Clare once part of Connaught and if so should it join Connaught again? For Check out the article by J.H. Andrews, MRIA: SIR RICHARD BINGHAM AND THE MAPPING OF WESTERN IRELAND Draw your own conclusions but here are a couple of quotes: "The province of Connacht comprises the counties of Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, and Sligo. Throughout Bingham's period of office it also included County Clare." "Clare was mapped more convincingly and accurately by Lythe than any of the Connacht coastlands further north. This county, an out-of-the-way area in relation to Bingham's usual sphere of operations, gave comparatively little trouble throughout his governorship. Cartographically, a possible sign of its unusual status is that in Browne II's provincial map Clare has been attached slightly too far to the east to what had evidently begun as a self-sufficient map of the other five Connacht counties." " . . . after the separation of County Clare (Thomond) from Connacht in the summer of 1602." Against History is always being reinturpreted!

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