ENNEMOSER, JOSEPH (1787-1854), Austrian medico philosophic writer, was born on Nov. 15, 1787, at Hintersee in Tirol. After fighting against the French in 1809 and again in 1813-14, he took his M.D. at Berlin in 1816, and three years later was appointed professor of medicine at the new University of Bonn. He practised at Innsbruck from 1837-1841, when he moved to Munich, where he became widely known by his use of hypnotism. He died on Sept. 19, 1854, at Egern.
Besides his chief work, Der Magnetismus in seiner geschichtlichen Entwickelung (1819; 2nd ed., 1844, partial Eng. trans. 1854), Enne moser's writings include: Historisch-psychologische Untersuchungen fiber den Ursprung and das Wesen der menschlichen Seele (1824; 2nd ed., i85i) ; Der Magnetismus im Verhiiltnis zur Natur and Religion (i842; 2nd ed., 1853), and Anleitung zur mesnzerischen Praxis (1852). ENNIS, county town of Co. Clare, Ireland, on the river Fergus, 25 m. N.W. from Limerick by rail. Pop. of urban district (2926), Incorporated in 1612, it returned two members to the Irish parliament until the Union. The Roman Catholic church is the pro-cathedral of the diocese of Killaloe ; the parish church was formed out of the ruins of the Franciscan abbey founded in 1240. The ruins of Clare abbey, founded in 1194, and of Killone abbey are near the town. Five miles N.W. is Dysert O'Dea, with a cross, a round tower and a castle. Ennis (Gaelic Innis, an island) has breweries, distilleries and flour mills. Limestone is quarried in the neighbourhood.