placenamesClonoulty
Cluain Abhla
Clonoulty’s church buildings and carved burial stones preserve several layers of the village’s religious history.
The name
These Irish name elements are associated with this record in the Logainm glossary.
An element’s translation is a clue, rather than a complete explanation of the name. Its form and meaning depend on local history and the full Irish name.
Recorded forms
- Cluain Abhla · Irish · main form · validated name
- Clonoulty · English · main form
Place & story
Saint John the Baptist
The Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, dated 1878, occupies a prominent position at Clonoulty’s main crossroads. Its cross-shaped plan includes transept porches and a smaller bell tower with a round spire. An unusual external iron staircase gives direct access to the gallery. Inside are an exposed timber roof, mosaic work in the chancel and carved marble altar furnishings. The building stands on the site of an earlier church. [2]
The old burial ground
The former Protestant church in Clonoulty’s old cemetery was built in the 1850s, replacing an older church farther down the burial ground. The cemetery survey published by Tipperary Studies records three slabs carved with Tau crosses near the entrance. These had been brought from the Horan farm in Torah and placed near the family burial plot. [3]
Geographic information
- Place type
- Population centre
- County
- Tipperary
- Barony
- Clanwilliam
- Barony
- Kilnamanagh Lower
- Coordinates
- 52.61032, -7.95571 (approximate)
- Logainm ID
- 1411767 ↗
Sources & further reading
- Logainm.ie — Clonoulty. Place names and geographic record, licensed under CC BY 4.0.
- Catholic Church of Saint John the Baptist, Clonoulty Curragh, record 22204611 · National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Clonoulty Old Cemetery Gravestone Inscriptions, introduction · Tipperary Studies
Name record retrieved 2026-10-25 · Source record modified 2011-06-27. How this page was prepared.