County Tipperary
County Tipperary is a county in Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early 13th century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. The population of the county was 159,553 at the 2016 census. The largest towns are Clonmel, Nenagh and Thurles. Tipperary County Council is the local government authority for the county. Since 1838, County Tipperary has been divided... Show more into two ridings, North and South. From 1899 until 2014, they had their own county councils which were unified under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, which came into effect following the 2014 local elections on 3 June 2014.