Sports and Leisure
Cusack Park is the main county Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) playing grounds is situated in the town centre on Francis Street. Ennis has numerous Football Clubs (Soccer, GAA & Rugby) that play in various Leagues from Schoolboys to Senior. Ennis has many Sports facitities including the Lees Road Sports and Amenity Park (See Main Article), The Fair Green which has a Children's Playground and numerous football pitches. The Ennis Leisure Centre has a fully equipped Gym with a 25m pool, Saunas etc. There are a number of Hotels around Ennis that have their own Leisure facilities including Gyms and 15m to 20m Pools.
| Historical population | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Pop. | ±% |
| 1821 | 6,701 | — |
| 1831 | 7,711 | +15.1% |
| 1841 | 9,318 | +20.8% |
| 1851 | 7,843 | −15.8% |
| 1861 | 7,041 | −10.2% |
| 1871 | 6,503 | −7.6% |
| 1881 | 6,307 | −3.0% |
| 1891 | 5,460 | −13.4% |
| 1901 | 5,093 | −6.7% |
| 1911 | 5,472 | +7.4% |
| 1926 | 5,518 | +0.8% |
| 1936 | 5,897 | +6.9% |
| 1946 | 5,871 | −0.4% |
| 1951 | 6,097 | +3.8% |
| 1956 | 8,292 | +36.0% |
| 1961 | 8,410 | +1.4% |
| 1966 | 9,181 | +9.2% |
| 1971 | 10,840 | +18.1% |
| 1981 | 14,640 | +35.1% |
| 1986 | 15,547 | +6.2% |
| 1991 | 16,058 | +3.3% |
| 1996 | 17,726 | +10.4% |
| 2002 | 22,051 | +24.4% |
| 2006 | 24,553 | +11.3% |
| 2011 | 25,360 | +3.3% |
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Famous quotes containing the words sports and, sports and/or leisure:
“Sports and gallantries, the stage, the arts, the antics of dancers,
The exuberant voices of music,
Have charm for children but lack nobility; it is bitter earnestness
That makes beauty; the mind
Knows, grown adult.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)
“Guys do not have a genetic blueprint that allows them to understand or love sports.”
—Lesley Visser, U.S. sports reporter and announcer. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 82 (June 17, 1991)
“A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man’s life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars. What are threescore years and ten hurriedly and coarsely lived to moments of divine leisure in which your life is coincident with the life of the universe?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)