Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1915-03-26
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TIPPERARY
Some Facts About tho Irish Town
and Country Famous in Song.

And where Is Tipperary?
Its a long way to Co." says the
music hall band that half the world
is singing. Which is the utmost that
the majority Of the singers know
about the real Tipperary says the
Philadelphia Record.
1t Is related that Cornwell once
stood on a hill top in Erin and sur
veyed the smiling expanse Of fertile
plain that unfolded before his eyes.
THAT is the land worth fighting fort"
he exclaimed. He was gazing at the
golden vale-the heart of Tipperary.
Tipperary today is a region as
beautiful as its people are h~ospitable
and kindly; a peaceful region quietly
prosperous, a people proud of their
history and their relics Of the golden
age Of Cashel of the kings. 1t is q
region whose story is interviewer with
the most glorious and the most dis
tressing events of Irish history. 1t
is a region bright with color and
vivid with romance.
A word about the Tipperary Of to-
day. There is Tipperary the country
and Tipperary the garrison town. No
matter which Of the two the rimester
had in mind when he made his song.
Tipperary town is described as a
Slow sort of a place, which never
recovered from the "kick up" in the
Irish party after Parnells death
but most of this later. Tipperary
county is in the Irish province Of
Muster, and is the sixth largest coun-
ty in Ireland, having 1,062,963 acres
Of peat bog, meadow, field and noun
tain. 1t is a varied and pictureque
land. Most Of it is a great plain. On
its southern bourder are the Knock
m%ealdown mountains, and north Of
them the wild Galtees-Galtymore,
the highest of them. lifts its ancient
head over 5000 feet in air. On the
east are the Silieve-Ardagh hills, and
near the town of Templemore the
stored DEVILS Bit mountains. The
Son is T~ipperary's biggest river. 1t
takes its rise in the DEVILS Bit, and
flows southwark and eastward by the
historic town of Templemor Thurles,
| Cashed and Clonmel. The river Shan
non, the poets own river, washes the
border Of the county.
Tipperary Of this modern day is
one of the best agricultural districts
in Ireland. From Cashel to Limerick,
right in the midst of Tipperary.
stretches the golden Vale, the most
fertile valley in all Erin. Tipperary
is given mostly to agriculture and
%dairying. There are some ancient
lead mines, whose ores hold a trace
of silver, but they engage only a
small portion of the populace. Large
meal and flour mills are scattered
over the country, and the town Of
Tipperary comes second only to the
city of Cork as a butler market.
The town Of Tipperary is very an
cient. King John built a castle there
as far back as the 18th century and
one of the landmarks of the place
is an old gate house which belonged
to an Augustinian monastery founded
by Henry III. One Of the show
places of the town is the barracks
built by the English government,
about which, by the way. a humorous
story is told. 1t seems that the gov
erment architects were simultan-
eously planning a barracks for Tip
perary and a barracks for Hong
Kong, China. Both sets of plans were
drawn up and forwarded to their
destinations. BY some blunder the
Tipperary plans went to Hong Kong
and the Hong Kong plans to Upper
AIRY. No one was any the wiser I'M
til the work Of the builders was COM
plete. So it happens that a fine piece
of Anglo-Chinese architecture can
be seen any day at the base of the
Slieve-na-Muck hills of Ti%pperary!s
"Tip-rar-ry," as the townspeople
call it, hasn't a very large population
5000. according to the last avail
able census figures. And one rea-
son for this, they say, is that the
lads and lasses Of Tipperary these
many years have been turning their
faces toward the United States.