Cranny is a small village in County Clare, Ireland, situated 22 kilometres (14 mi) south-west of Ennis. It lies on the banks of the Cloon River, which flows into the Shannon Estuary at Clonderlaw Bay.

The Diocese of Killaloe is a Latin diocese of the Catholic Church in mid-western Ireland, one of six suffragan dioceses in the ecclesiastical province of Cashel and Emly.