Clonony (Irish: Cluain Damhna Beag)[1] is a small village in County Offaly, Ireland.

"[3] The castle was occupied from 1612 to about 1620 by Matthew de Renzi (1577–1634), a London cloth merchant originally from Cologne in Germany, who created the first English-Irish dictionary, according to his tombstone in Athlone.

[citation needed] The castle has all the basic features of a tower house of this period such as machicolation, murder hole, base batter, mural passages, spiral staircase, gun-loops, garderobe and bawn.

[6] The Annals of the Four Masters record "A great war broke out in Dealbhna between the descendants of Farrell Mac Coghlan and the descendants of Donnell, in the course of which James Mac Coghlan, Prior of Gailinne, and the Roydamna of Dealbhna Eathra, was killed by a shot fired from the castle of Cluain-damhna.

It was listed for sale in 2022 described as a three-bedroom, two-bathroom site ... on three acres of land, with a large dining room, a study and a 'ladies chamber'.