Clonmel
[key], town, administrative center of South Riding, Co. Tipperary, S
Republic of Ireland, on the Suir River. Footwear, cider, enamelware, tubular
steel furniture, baby carriages, computer disk drives, and canned meat are
produced in Clonmel. It is also a tourist center with good hunting and
salmon fishing. Clonmel was once a stronghold of the powerful Anglo-Norman
Butler family. Oliver Cromwell
captured it in 1650. Many restored ecclesiastical sites still remain. The
author Laurence Sterne was born
there.
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