CLONMEL (Cluain mealla, or vale of honey) , municipal borough and county town of Co. Tipperary, 112 m. S.W. from Dublin, Ireland, a junction on the Great Southern railway (Water ford, Limerick, Thurles), on both banks of the river Suir and on Moore and Long Islands. Pop. (1926) 9,056. It is near fine scen ery in the Galtee and Knockmealdown mountains. It is at the head of barge navigation on the Suir. As a walled town (remains are still visible) it was frequently mentioned in the middle ages, but it was dismantled after capture by Cromwell (165o). Bianconi (1815) made it the centre of a system of conveyance of pas sengers by light cars in south Ireland. The town has a fair agri cultural trade, formerly made woollen goods, and is an assize town.