Cloneen, County Tipperary
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Cloneen () is a small village and
civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...
in
County Tipperary County Tipperary () is a Counties of Ireland, county in Republic of Ireland, Ireland. It is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Munster and the Southern Region, Ireland, Southern Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary (tow ...
, Ireland. Located on the R692 regional road, the village is approximately east of Fethard. Cloneen's Catholic church was built, in 1815, on the site of a former medieval church. The church, known as the Church of the Visitation, is in the parish of
Drangan Drangan () is a village, urban area and civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland. It is in the historical barony of Middlethird. As of the 2016 census, Drangan had a population of 145 people. It is approximately 19 km north of Clonmel. T ...
and Cloneen in the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly The Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly () is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church located in mid-western Ireland, and the metropolis of the eponymous ecclesiastical province. The cathedral church of the archdiocese is the Cathedral of the Assump ...
. The national (primary) school in the village, Cloneen National School, had an enrollment of approximately 100 pupils as of September 2017. The local
Gaelic Athletic Association The Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA; ; CLG) is an Irish international amateur sports, amateur sporting and cultural organisation, focused primarily on promoting indigenous Gaelic games and pastimes, which include the traditional Irish sports o ...
club is St Patrick's GAA club.


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{{Tipperary-geo-stub Towns and villages in County Tipperary Civil parishes of Middle Third, County Tipperary Civil parishes of Slievardagh