Ballylooby (Irish: Béal Átha Lúbaigh, meaning 'mouth, or pass, of Looby's Ford')[1] is a village in County Tipperary in Ireland.

It was sold to the local school-master, Michael Keating, by District Inspector Gilbert Potter in 1919 and so avoided damage by the Third Tipperary Brigade, during the Irish War of Independence.

[8] In December 1920, the barracks fleetingly became the focus of international attention when Daniel Francis Crowley and John Tangney, both ex-R.I.C Constables formerly stationed there, testified before the American Commission on Conditions in Ireland.

They dramatically gave their reasons for quitting the force as the "brutality and lawlessness" of the contemporary administration, particularly the Black and Tans, as witnessed by them on their transfer from Ballylooby to Clogheen Barracks.

Created in 1925, they are located in the sanctuary, to the left and right of the altar, and depict Salome 'presenting' the head of John the Baptist to Herod and the Lourdes apparition.

[12] The mortuary chapel at Tubrid is the burial place of Seathrún Céitinn (Geoffrey Keating), a 17th-century Counter-Reformation priest of the parish and Gaelic historian of national repute.

Thomas Ryan, a native of the area, represented County Tipperary at the ill-fated match against Dublin on Bloody Sunday (1920).

In the centre of the village, there is a memorial to Ned Tobin, who achieved national fame as a track and field athlete, particularly in throwing the 56-pound weight "without follow".