The Apparitions and Miracles at Knock; also, the Official Depositions of the Eye-witnesses

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CHAPTER III.
CLAREMORRIS.
Tourists or travellers coming to Knock must pass through
either of the two towns, Claremorris or Ballyhaunis, which
are points at the extreme ends of the base of the irregular
triangle, of which the village of Knock forms the vertex.
The chapel of the Apparition must be reached by car, either
from Claremorris or Ballyhaunis—the former is five miles
distant, the latter six and a half. In excursion trips the
fare, either from Dublin or Athlone, to these towns is the
same, and at Claremorris a number of cars are usually at call,
ready for all new comers. The accommodation, too, is fair
considering the extent of the town, and the means of the
inhabitants. The people have been by strangers pronounced
civil and obliging. There are in the town two hotels,
in which good accommodation can be had, besides private
apartments, where families can find themselves at home.
All visitors from Waterford, Wexford, Cork, Limerick, and
the extreme west and south of Ireland, come to Clare
morris, per the Waterford and Limerick Railway, through
Athenry and Tuam, in the county Galway. Cars are
to be had at Tuam, from which the journey of fourteen
miles can be made in two hours. The fare by public car
is two-and-sixpence. What the town of Clare, as it was
called in times past, had been forty-five years ago is thus
described by Lewis in his " Topographical Dictionary: " "A
market and post-town in the parish of Kilcolman, barony of
Clanmorris, county Mayo, and province of Connacht, fourteen
miles south-east by south from Castlebar, and 117 miles