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Clonmel (County Tipperary)

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Clonmel

Clonmel (klonmel') [key], town (1991 pop. 15,562), administrative center of South Riding, Co. Tipperary, S Republic of Ireland, on the Suir River. Footwear, cider, enamelware, tubular steel furniture, baby carriages, computer disk drives, and canned meat are produced in Clonmel. It is also a tourist center with good hunting and salmon fishing. Clonmel was once a stronghold of the powerful Anglo-Norman Butler family. Oliver Cromwell captured it in 1650. Many restored ecclesiastical sites still remain. The author Laurence Sterne was born there.

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It's known as the field of dreams, the holy grail, and is beyond compare for the 30,000 visitors that descend on Clonmel every year. The National Coursing Meeting at Powerstown Park is Mecca for the thousands of coursing fans across the country and not even the treacherous driving conditions of last week would put them off. If anything, it made them more determined to get to Clonmel. (Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland))

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Irish racing looks poised to beat the ravages of the weather that's decimated the current schedule around Britain with both today's Down Royal fixture and tomorrow's Clonmel meeting reported not to be under threat, WRITES DAMIEN McELROY. (Irish Independent (Dublin, Republic of Ireland))

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