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TIPPERARY

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1005 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIPPERARY  , a

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town of Co . Tipperary, Ireland . Pop . (
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loot), 6281 . It is beautifully situated near the
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base of the Slieve na muck or Tipperary Hills, a branch of the Galtee range, on the
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Waterford &
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Limerick
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line of the
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Great
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Southern & Western railway, 3 M . S.E. of Limerick Junction and rro4 S.W. of
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Dublin . It is governed by an urban
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district council . It is situated in the centre of a
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fine agricultural district, and its butter market ranks next to that of Cork . Condensed milk is manufactured . The town is of great antiquity, but first acquired importance by the erection of a castle by King John, of which there are no remains . A monastery founded for
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Augustinians by Henry III. gave a second impulse to its growth . The
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gatehouse, all that remains of this foundation, is the only
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building of antiquity in the town .

Formerly Tipperary was a

corporation from a grant made in 1310 by
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Edward II . New Tipperary was founded outside the town by Mr William O'Brien in 1890 during the "Plan of
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Campaign" inaugurated to
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boycott the Smith-Barry estate, in order to accommodate the tenants who vacated their holdings, but the scheme was a failure, and the place was abandoned and sold .

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