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11 unusual facts about Tipperary


Benicia State Recreation Area

Stonecutter Patrick Dillon came to California from Tipperary, Ireland, during the 1849 California Gold Rush, settling in Benicia in 1851.

Book of Dimma

The Book of Dimma (Dublin, Trinity College, MS.A.IV.23) is an 8th-century Irish pocket Gospel Book originally from the Abbey of Roscrea, founded by St. Cronan in the County Tipperary, Ireland.

Charles Joseph Gahan

Charles Joseph Gahan (1862–1939) was born on 20 January 1862 at Roscrea County Tipperary, Ireland.

Inula salicina

It only has a very restricted distribution is the British Isles, being confined to a small area of south central Ireland, around Lough Derg in north Tipperary and south-east Galway.

Jack Judge

Jack Judge (christened John, born 3 December 1872 in Oldbury, died 25 July 1938 in West Bromwich) was a British song-writer and music-hall entertainer best remembered for writing the song It's a Long Way to Tipperary, although Judge wrote and sung the song in 1915, John McCormack made the song famous rather than Judge.

John T. Dunn

Born in Tipperary, Ireland, Dunn immigrated to the United States with his father, who settled in New Jersey in 1845.

Peacock-class corvette

This ship takes her name from a Tipperary saint born around the year 611 who, after taking religious vows in her teens, founded a convent in Kilkeary, near Nenagh.

Percival Mackey

At the age of 18, he joined the Royal Irish Animated Picture Company in Tipperary, Ireland, a travelling film show managed by Arthur Jameson.

Shirley Bottolfsen

Shirley Isabelle Theresa Bernadette Bottolfsen (born 12 February 1934 in Tipperary, Ireland) is an Irish woman, who live in Bodø, Norway.

The Long Gray Line

West Point staffer Marty Maher (b. 1876), who came there from Tipperary as a waiter, enlisted in 1898, instructed several generations of plebes in boxing, swimming and tradition, stayed at West Point all his life, his romance and marriage to Mary O'Donnell, and his declining years after her death (1948).

Tipton, Monroe County, Illinois

The community there, settled by persons of Irish descent was called Tipperary, which degenerated over time through Tiptown, to the current Tipton.


1716 in Ireland

Confiscating the estates of James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde and vesting them in the Crown, and abolishing the county palatine of Tipperary.

1984 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship Final

Pat Stakelum, Seán Kenny and Jimmy Finn, Tipperary’s three-in-a-row All-Ireland winning captains of 1949, 1950 and 1951 were the next players to be introduced to the Thurles crowd.

Matt Hassett captained Tipperary to the 1961 All-Ireland title before handing over the captaincy to his Tipp team mate Jimmy Doyle, regarded by many as one of the greatest players of all-time and All-Ireland winning captain of 1962 and 1965.

2006 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final

Tipperary forward Lar Corbett got the opening goal of the game when he shot low to beat Cork goalkeeper Donal Óg Cusack in the fourth minute.

2011 Munster Senior Hurling Championship Final

Tipperary made one change to their team to the team that defeated Clare in the semi-final with Paddy Stapleton coming into the team in place of David Young at right corner-back.

Ballingarry

Ballingarry, South Tipperary, a village in the county of South Tipperary, Ireland.

Ballyea

Ballyea South, a townland in the county of North Tipperary, Ireland

Ballyea North, a townland in the county of North Tipperary, Ireland

Clonoulty

Boorowa, New South Wales (the Tipperary of the South) was settled by Europeans who were mainly Irish convicts transported from Clonoulty after political activity against the British in 1815.

Doon GAA

The club is located in in the parish of Doon mostly in County Limerick but also containing a few townlands in County Tipperary who can play with the other club in the parish Glengar who are affiliated to the Tipperary GAA County Board.

Dunalley

Baron Dunalley, of Kilboy in the County of Tipperary, is a title in the Peerage of Ireland

Éamonn Kelly

He was an All-Ireland-winning manager with the Kildangan intermediate hurling team in 2005, as well as serving as a manager and as a selector with the Tipperary under-21 and intermediate hurling teams.

Earl of Lisburne

The titles of Baron Fethard, of Feathered in the County of Tipperary, and Viscount Lisburne, were created in the Peerage of Ireland in 1695 for John Vaughan, Member of Parliament for Cardiganshire and also Lord Lieutenant of that county.

Galtee Rovers GAA

One of the Club leaders in its formative years was Mr. John Cullinane, M.P. who was a native of Bansha and represented County Tipperary as a Nationalist member of Parliament at Westminster from 1900 to 1918.

Gearóid Ryan

Tipperary got off to a great start which was bolstered by an early Lar Corbett goal.

Gurteen

Gurteen College, an agricultural college in County Tipperary, Ireland.

Hayes' Hotel

In January 2014, it was reported that an investment group containing Tipperary hurler Lar Corbett, boxer Matthew Macklin and Kevin Coppinger were in talks to take-over the hotel.

Hughie Graham

Dáithí Sproule recorded a version with fiddling master James Kelly and button box master Paddy O'Brien (Tipperary) that is still available on the compilation album Traditional Music of Ireland.

James Fintan Lalor

“His spirit, however, was undaunted,” according to O’Sullivan, and in the following year he set about organising a revival of the insurrection” in co-operation with John Savage, Joseph Brennan, John O'Leary and Thomas Clarke Luby in Tipperary and Waterford.

James FitzMaurice FitzGerald

FitzMaurice was son of Maurice Fitzjohn a Totane, brother of the 12th Earl of Desmond, and Julia O'Mulryan of County Tipperary, making him nephew of James FitzGerald, Earl of Desmond and cousin of Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond.

Jovita Delaney

The family’s association with the game stretches back almost one hundred years as Arthur O'Donnell, a cousin, won All-Ireland medals with Tipperary in 1916 and 1925.

Kilbrickane, County Tipperary

Henry John Cambie, who was born in Tipperary, may also have been connected.

Lar Corbett

2007 was also a write-off as far as Tipperary were concerned; however, Liam Sheedy took over as manager for 2008 and things began to change for the premier county.

Lattin, South Tipperary

It is situated in an area of south Tipperary known as the Golden Vale, an area in which the land is particularly suitable for grass growing and dairy farming.

Local Government Act 2001

The opportunity was taken to rename Tipperary (North Riding) and Tipperary (South Riding) as North Tipperary and South Tipperary respectively.

Manchester Martyrs

Monuments erected in honour of Allen, Larkin, and O'Brien stand in Limerick, Kilrush (County Clare), Clonmel (County Tipperary), Birr (County Offaly), Ennis (County Clare), Glasnevin Cemetery (Dublin), and in St Joseph's Cemetery, Moston, Manchester.

Michael Kennedy

Michael O'Kennedy (born 1936), Irish Fianna Fáil politician from Tipperary

Michael O'Meara

O'Meara was a non playing substitute as Tipperary won the 1991 All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship with victory against Kilkenny by 1-16 to 0-15 in the final.

Mockler

Bob Mockler (born in Horse and Jockey, County Tipperary), Irish sportsperson

Moyne-Templetuohy GAA

Tom Fogarty, Tipperary player (1960s-70s), later Tipperary and Offaly hurling manager

National Camogie League

It was first played in 1976 for a trophy donated by Allied Irish Banks when Tipperary beat Wexford in a replayed final.

Peacock-class corvette

Also featured is a Celtic cross as a representation of the North Cross at Athenny, County Tipperary.

Prix Kergorlay

Maurice Philipperon – Waylay (1966), Homeric (1972), Valuta (1973), Tipperary Fixer (1981)

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cashel and Emly

From the time of the English Reformation onwards, those archbishops appointed by Rome had to make their throne in whichever house in Tipperary would hide them from the forces of the crown.

South Tipperary County Council

On 26 July 2011, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan, announced the proposed merger of North Tipperary County Council and South Tipperary County Council.

The Galtee Mountain Boy

The Galtee Mountains are in Tipperary; the lyrics include farewells to both this county and the town of Clonmel.

Thomas Kingscote

He was the son of Colonel Thomas Henry Kingscote and his second wife, the Honourable Harriott Mary Anne Kingscote, daughter of Lieutenant-General Benjamin Bloomfield, 1st Baron Bloomfield of Ciamaltha, Newport, Tipperary, Ireland.

Tipperary GAA

Tipperary GAA has jurisdiction over the area that is associated with the traditional county of County Tipperary.

Walter Butler, 16th Earl of Ormonde

They always had large areas of land in counties Kilkenny and Tipperary, and now were able to become the largest landowners in the south-east.

Waterford GAA

The 1963 League final against Tipperary – the ‘Home’ final as the winners were due to meet New York for the title proper – was much closer, with Waterford winning a thrilling match by 2-15 (21) to 4-7.

Willie Griffin

After a period in the wilderness the Cork team bounced back in 1952 with Griffin capturing a Munster winners' medal following a defeat of three-in-a-row All-Ireland champions Tipperary in the provincial decider.