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Roscrea Heritage Town has a 13th Century Castle in the town centre with 17th Century Damer House in the castle courtyard. Take time to see the St. Cronan’s monastic ruins with its 12th Century West Gable. The Round Tower and Black Mills with original High Cross are also not to be missed. One of the oldest monastic towns [...]
Tours of Ireland will usually visit the Rock of Cashel. It is a must see attraction. It is without doubt the single most impressive site of relegious significance in the whole of Ireland. It dominates the rolling countryside of County Tipperary for miles around. It is named because of its location atop a rocky outcrop. It is in fact [...]
A Cistercian abbey , founded by Donal Mor O Brien in 1611. It is located in County Tipperary , and the abbey gets its name from a relic of the True Cross still housed there. It was rebuilt in the fifteenth century with patronage from the Butler Earls of Ormond. The monastery was supressed during the Reformation , [...]
We have all heard the song ….ITS A LONG WAY TO TIPPERARY !!! Tipperary is an inland county in the province of Munster. The county, divided for administrative purposes into North and South Ridings, covers 1,662 square miles and has a population of approx. 140,000. Tipperary became known worldwide through the World War I song “It’s [...]
Clonmel is Tipperary’s county town, a prosperous and pretty place with plenty of life and, if home-grown novelist Laurence Sterne’s writings are anything to go by, some whimsically rum goings-on. Sterne lied during the 18th century and is best known for his picaresque novel, Tristram Shandy. Other writers have connections with the town: Anthony Trollope [...]
The name Tipperary is taken from the Irish ‘Tiobraid Arann’, which means ‘the well of Era’, referring to the River Ara. County Tipperary is the largest inland county in Ireland. Because of its size, in 1838, the county was divided into two administrative areas – the North Riding and South Riding which are still managed as separate [...]