Clonlara, officially Cloonlara (from Irish Cluain Lára),[2] is a village in County Clare, Ireland, and a Roman Catholic parish of the same name.

Clonlara is in the east of County Clare in the civil parish of Kiltonanlea or Doonass, barony of Tulla Lower.

The parish has two churches:[8] Mary, the Mother of God (Truagh) and St Senan's (Clonlara), both Roman Catholic.

[9] In 1956 in Clonlara, a group of people were reputedly prompted by a local Catholic curate to physically assault two Jehovah's Witnesses and to burn the literature which they had been trying to distribute.

While Taoiseach John A. Costello reportedly "responded to a protest from Bishop Joseph Rodgers of Killaloe" by writing that he "appreciated 'the just indignation aroused among the clergy and the people by the activities of the Jehovah’s Witnesses'",[10] he also "insisted that the law had to be upheld".