The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1915-04-06

swing to II has put the name OF
Tipperary into all mems
A mouths, 1t is worth while know
ing something of that bit of
Ireland. In the New York Sun Law
renee Flick writes thus about It:
1t is related that Cromwell once
stood on a hilltop in Erin and sur
veyed the smiling expanse OF fertile
plain that unfolded before his eyes.
This Is land worth fighting fort"
he exclaimed. He was gazing at the
Golden Vale-the heart of Tipperary.
Tipperary today Is a region as beau
tlful as It's people are hospitable and
kindly; peaceful region quietly pros
porous; a people proud of their history
and their relics of the golden age Of
Cashel of the Kings. 1t is a region
whose story Is interviewer with the
most glorious and the most distress
ing events OF Irish history. 1t is re-
gion bright with color and vivid with
romance.
A word about the Tipperary Of to-
day. There is Tipperary the county
and Tipperary the garrison town. Tip
perary town IL described as SLOW"
sort of a place. which never recovered
from the kick up" in the Irish party
after Parnell's death. Tipperary coun-
ty Is in the Irish province of Munster
and is the sixth largest county in Ire
land. having more than a million
acres OF peat bog, meadow, field and
mountain.
Varied and Picturesque.
It Is a varied and picturesque land
Most Of 1t Is a great plain. On it's
southern border are the Knockmeal-
down mountains. and north OF them
the wild Galtees. The SUR Is Tip.
perary's biggest river. II takes it's
rise In the Devils Bit and flows south
ward and eastward by the historic
towns Of Templemore, Thurles. Cashel
and Clonmel. The River Shannon.
the poets own river. washes the bor-
der 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
port Of the populace. Large meal. and
-four mills are scattered over the
country, and the town OF Tipperary
comes second only to the city Of Cork
as butter market.
The town of Tipperary is ancient.
King John built a castle there as far
back as the thirteenth century, and
one of the landmarks OF the place ID
an old gatehouse which belonged to
an Augustinian monastery founded by
Henry III.
"Tip-rar-ry." AZ the townspeople call
Il, hasn't large population--6.00 900 &C
cording to the last available census
figures. And one reason for this. they
say, 10 that the lads and lasses Of Tip
perary these many years have beer
turning their faces toward the United
States. There are hundreds Of thous
ands Of Irishmen-millions of them
perhaps. would come nearer the tru,
mark--in this country who remembe
well the original cause Of this exodus
1t was one OF the results of the grea
boycott on landlords % years ago.
ii casheI Of the Kings.
It u not Tipperary the town. how
sver, that most endears Tipperary tn
county to Irishmen everywhere. It 1
Cashel Of the Kings and it, resplen
dent memories Of . glory that vii
never die. IA
Listen to this poetic description 0
CashsI in William Bulnn's admirable
'Rambles in Eirinn." The autho
glimpses It In the distance from tn
vantage rock on which Cromwell
utood:
''Tsr away to the northeastward I
oreat gray mass caught the sunlight
md hooking more intsntly I c0ult
make out tina roofb and walls Of I
avn. y was ancient Cashsl IN
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