COUNTYTIPPERARY
County Tipperary
County Tipperary is a county in Ireland. For Irish local government, it is divided into two counties, North Tipperary and South Tipperary. The Local Government Bill 2013 proposes to reunite the two counties into one, with effect from the 2014 local elections. It is located in province of Munster. The North, whose county council is based in Nenagh, is in the Mid-West Region; while the South, whose county council is based in Clonmel, in the South-East Region. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early thirteenth century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. The population of the entire county was 158,754 at the 2011 census.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: County Tipperary
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