Clár

See also: clar, clàr, clár, and clâr

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Contae an Chláir

Possibly named for Thomas de Clare, Lord of Thomond, Hiberno-Norman soldier (see Clare), or possibly related to the name Clarecastle, from Old Irish clár (“bridge, wooden board”).^[1]^[2]

an Clár m (genitive an Chláir)

Mutated forms of *Clár*
radical	lenition	eclipsis
Clár	Chlár	gClár

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Modern Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

^ Briggs, Keith (2009). "Clare, Clere, and Clères". Journal of the English Place-name Society (41): 14
^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “klaro”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 206-297