County Tipperary
Tiobraid Árann
- IrishTiobraid Árann
- ProvinceMunster
- County townClonmel and Nenagh
- Local governmentTipperary County Council, one council since 2014, with offices in Clonmel and Nenagh
- Area4,303 km²
- Population167,895 (2022)
- Highest pointGaltymore, 917.9 m, shared with Limerick
Not congested
When the Congested Districts Board made its first report, it named the counties where one of its funds, the old Irish Reproductive Loan Fund, could be spent. Tipperary was one of them, with Limerick and Clare.
Then it added a line. In those three counties there were not any districts congested within the meaning of the Act.
Tipperary was the Golden Vale. In 1900, 55.3 per cent of its holdings were under thirty acres, against more than eighty per cent in Mayo and Roscommon.
Cormac Óg
The Rock of Cashel
A limestone outcrop in the Golden Vale, once the seat of the kings of Munster. The legend says Saint Patrick came here to convert King Aenghus. Brian Boru was crowned at Cashel in 978.
In 1101 the site was given to the church.
On the rock now are a round tower, a high cross, a Romanesque chapel, a Gothic cathedral, an abbey, the Hall of the Vicars Choral and a tower house. Cormac's Chapel holds the only surviving Romanesque frescoes in Ireland.
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Theobald Mathew
Theobald Mathew was born on the tenth of October 1790 at Thomastown Castle, near Golden, in County Tipperary.
He was a gentleman's son. The family was connected to the Earls Landaff.
He went on to Maynooth, to the Capuchins in Dublin, and to Cork, where he took the pledge in 1838 and became the Apostle of Temperance.
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Theobald Mathew was born at Thomastown Castle near Golden in 1790, into a family connected to the Earls Landaff.