a parliamentary and municipal borough of Ireland, partly in the south riding of Tipperary and partly in Waterford county, 104 miles S.W. from Dublin. It is built on both sides of the Suir, and on Moore and Long Islands, which are connected with the mainland by 3 bridges. The principal buildings are, the parish church, 3 Roman Catholic chapels, 2 convents, endowed school, model school under the national board, mechanics' institute, court-house and prison, fever hospital and dispensary, lunatic asylum, market-house, barracks, savings-bank, and workhouse. Till the Union the woollen manufacture was extensively carried on here. The town contains a brewery, distillery, flour-mills, a cotton factory, and has a considerable export trade in grain, cattle, butter, and provisions. The river is navigable for barges of 50 tons to Waterford. Clonmel is a station on the Waterford and Limerick railway, and the centre of a system for the conveyance of travellers on light cars, extending over a great part of Leinster, Munster, and Connaught. It is governed by a corporation, consisting of a mayor, free burgesses, and a commonalty, and returns one member to parliament. Electors (1853) 328. Pop. (1851) 15,203. Market-days, Tuesday and Saturday. Two newspapers are published here, each twice a-week.