Ennis has moved up the table in the latest litter survey.
IBAL have again ranked Clare's county town as being clean to European norms, but says there is room for improvement.
Ennis has been ranked in 23rd position of 40 areas surveyed by the Irish Business Against Litter group – last time the town was in 33rd.
An Taisce inspectors found the top ranking sites were not just clear of litter but well-presented and maintained. They were Clare Leisure World, the Garden of Remembrance and Recycle Facility at Ennis Shopping Centre.
A Council Recycle Bank at the Leisure Facility was moderately littered, however, while the report found the Mill Road River Walk was seriously littered and in poor shape.
Despite this, Ennis is clean to European norms.
For the first time, IBAL has also inspected cleanliness of connecting routes between towns, and found scattered litter consistently between Ennis and Galway.
Kilkenny and Cavan were once again Ireland’s cleanest towns
