Clonmel.ie
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The Gaelic Translation of Clonmel is Cluain Meala, the Honey Meadow. The area in which the town is situated was part of a very old territory - the Decies, which included County Waterford and parts of the present County Tipperary.
Almost all Irish towns have their origin in either monastic settlements or Viking and Norman foundations. Clonmel is an Anglo-Norman town, the first references to which are found in State Papers of 1211and 1212. William de Burgo who was the Viceroy of Henry 11 in Ireland received substantial Grants of land in the Suir Valley between 1180 and 1190 and there is still evidence of that early Norman occupation in Moates in Kilsheelan, Ballyboe, lisronagh and at Greenan, Clonmel.
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