Clonoulty (Irish: Cluain Abhla, meaning 'meadow of the apple tree') is a small village and a civil parish in County Tipperary, Ireland.

The Calendar of Patent Rolls of Ireland records difficulties from 1582 onwards with Clonoulty rent collection for land which had passed into Crown control after the dissolution of the monasteries.

[1] 'Cluain an Ultaigh' is also given as a derivation,[2] associated with a belief that Donal Cam O'Sullivan Beare and his followers spent a night in the Clonoulty area as they fled their native territory based in the present day Beara Peninsula.

Seán Hogan, of the Third Tipperary Brigade, was captured by the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) on the morning of 11 May 1919, after leaving a dance at his house.

The defense was successfully led by Sgt Patrick McDonnell who was subsequently assassinated on 10 May of the same year at Goold's Cross railway station on his way to the RIC hut.