The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1916-01-04
TIPPERARY.
Some Facts About the Irish Town and
Country Famous in Song.
And where is Tipperary?

And where is Tipperary?
"It's long way to co. says the
music hail ballad 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 Cromwell 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 for!
he exclaimed. He was gazing at the
golden vale-the neart of Tipperary.
Tipperary today is a region as beau
tiful as its people are hospitable and
kindly; a peaceful region quietly pros
porous, people proud Of their history
and their relics of the golden age of
Cashel of the kings. 1t is region
whose story is interviewer with the
most glorious and the most distressing
events of Irish history. 1t is region
bright with color and vivid with ro-
nance.
A word about the Tipperary OF today.
There is Tipperary the county and
Tipperary the garrison town. No mat
ter which of the two the rimester had
in mind when he made his song. Tip
perary town is described as "slow"
sort of a place, which never recovered
from the "knick up" in the Irish party
after Parnell's death-but more of this
later. Tipperary county is in the Irish
province of Munster, and is the sixth
largest county in Ireland, having i
C62,963 acres of peat bog, meadow, field
and mountain. 1t is a varied and pic
turesuue land. Most of it is a great
plain. On it's southern border are the
! iKnockmealdown mountains, and north
of them the wild Kaltees-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 Son
is Tipperary's biggest river. 1t takes
its rise in the Devils Bit, and flows
southwark and eastward by the his
toric town of Templemore ThuTles,
Casnel 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 Limrick,
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 mold a trace OF
silver, but they engage only small
portion of the bopulaee. Large meal
and -four mills are scattered over the
country, and the town of TippeFary
comes second only to the city OF CORK
as butter 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
ar. 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 government architects
we're simultaneously planning bar
racks for Tipperary and barracks Tor
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 Tipperary.
! No one was any the wiser TunIII tu9
work of the builders was complete. So
il happens that a fine piece of Anglo
Chinese architecture can be seen any
day at the base of the Slieve-na-MucS
mills of Tipperary.
Tip-rar-ry," as the townspeopie call
it, hasn't very large population
5000, according to the last available
census figures. And one reason for
this, they say, is that the lads and
lasses of Tipperary these many years
have been turning their faces toward
the United States.
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