:Clare Glens

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The Clare Glens are a wooded area with a path up the red sandstone gorge separated by the banks of the Clare river, which separates Counties Tipperary and Limerick, Ireland. It is located approximately 4 km from Newport, County Tipperary, approximately 5 km from Murroe on the R506 road.

There are two carparks located near to the entrance for walkers. There is also a small children's play area and picnic area and toilet facilities at the smaller carpark.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

There is a signposted trail consisting of a walkway on both banks of the river with views and swimming locations.{{cite web| url = http://visitballyhoura.com/index.php/2012/03/12/clare-glens-loop-walk/| url-status = dead| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121017045252/http://visitballyhoura.com/index.php/2012/03/12/clare-glens-loop-walk/| archive-date = 2012-10-17| title = Clare Glens Loop Walk {{!}} Visit Ballyhoura}} This includes an opening below a waterfall known as The Big Eas.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

The river is used as a kayaking venue, and canoeists usually enter the Clare river at the top carpark by Ashroe and kayak down the waterfalls and rapids.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

In the late 1990s the Limerick path of the Clare Glens was widened and levelled to allow emergency vehicles access to the two mile long walk.{{citation needed|date=June 2017}}

The Clare Glens were hit during storm Darwin on 12 February 2014, and suffered severe damage.{{cite web|url=https://www.tipperarylive.ie/news/local-news/168384/-Rocky--outlines-council-repairs.html |date=24 February 2014 |accessdate=23 March 2020 |website=Tipperary Live |title='Rocky' outlines council repairs to scenic areas following storm damage}}

The site is a listed European Special Area of Conservation (SAC), designated for its areas of oak woodland habitat and a species of rare fern known as the Killarney Fern Trichomanes speciosum.{{Cite web|url=https://www.npws.ie/protected-sites/sac/000930|title = Clare Glen SAC | National Parks & Wildlife Service}}