Editing County Tipperary (section)

==Geography==
Tipperary is the sixth-largest of the [[Counties of Ireland|32 counties]] by area and the 12th largest by population.<ref>{{cite book| first=Eoghan| last=Corry| title=The GAA Book of Lists| publisher=Hodder Headline Ireland| year=2005| pages=186–91}}</ref> It is the third-largest of Munster's six counties by both size and population. It is also the largest landlocked county in Ireland.

Tipperary is bounded (clockwise) by counties Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Clare and Galway. Its eight neighbours are the most of any county on the island.

The region is part of the central plain of Ireland, but the diverse terrain contains several mountain ranges: the [[Knockmealdown Mountains|Knockmealdown]], the [[Galtee Mountains|Galtee]], the [[Arra Hills]] and the [[Silvermine Mountains]]. Most of the county is drained by the [[River Suir]]; the north-western part by tributaries of the [[River Shannon]]; the eastern part by the [[River Nore]]; the south-western corner by the [[Munster Blackwater]]. No part of the county touches the coast. The centre is known as 'the [[Golden Vale]]', a rich pastoral stretch of land in the Suir basin which extends into counties [[County Limerick|Limerick]] and [[County Cork|Cork]]. At 917 m, Galtymore is the highest point.

The [[Devil's Bit]] is a part of the [[Slieve Bloom]] range. The [[River Shannon]] flows along the northwest border with counties [[County Limerick|Limerick]], [[County Galway|Galway]] and [[County Clare|Clare]]. The River Suir rises at the Devil's Bit and flows into the sea east of [[Waterford]].

===Baronies===
There are 12 historic [[Barony (Ireland)|baronies]] in County Tipperary: [[Clanwilliam (County Tipperary)|Clanwilliam]], [[Eliogarty]], [[Iffa and Offa East]], [[Iffa and Offa West]], [[Ikerrin]], [[Kilnamanagh Lower]], [[Kilnamanagh Upper]], [[Middle Third (County Tipperary barony)|Middle Third]], [[Ormond Lower]], [[Ormond Upper]], [[Owney and Arra]] and [[Slievardagh]].

===Civil parishes and townlands===
{{Main|Civil parishes in Ireland}}
Parishes were delineated after the [[Down Survey]] as an intermediate subdivision, with multiple [[townland]]s per parish and multiple parishes per barony. The civil parishes had some use in local taxation and were included on the nineteenth century maps of the [[Ordnance Survey of Ireland]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx|title=Interactive map (civil parish boundaries viewable in Historic layer)|work=Mapviewer|publisher=Ordnance Survey of Ireland|access-date=9 March 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100529055024/http://ims0.osiemaps.ie/website/publicviewer/main.aspx|archive-date=29 May 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> For [[poor law]] purposes, [[district electoral division]]s replaced the civil parishes in the mid-nineteenth century. There are 199 civil parishes in the county.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.aspx?text=Tipperary&streets=yes |title=Placenames Database of Ireland – Tipperary civil parishes |publisher=Logainm.ie |date=2010-12-13 |access-date=2012-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920032528/http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.aspx?text=Tipperary&streets=yes |archive-date=20 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Townlands are the smallest officially defined geographical divisions in Ireland; there are 3,159 townlands in the county.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.aspx?text=Tipperary&streets=yes |title=Placenames Database of Ireland – Tipperary townlands |publisher=Logainm.ie |date=2010-12-13 |access-date=2012-09-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920032528/http://www.logainm.ie/Viewer.aspx?text=Tipperary&streets=yes |archive-date=20 September 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Largest towns===
{{See also|List of towns and villages in County Tipperary}}
{{Historical populations
|state=collapsed
|1600|23454
|1610|25667
|1653|31597
|1659|26684
|1821|346896
|1831|402563
|1841|435553
|1851|331567
|1861|249106
|1871|216713
|1881|199612
|1891|173188
|1901|160232
|1911|152433
|1926|141015
|1936|137835
|1946|136014
|1951|133313
|1956|129415
|1961|123822
|1966|122812
|1971|123565
|1979|133741
|1981|135261
|1986|136619
|1991|132772
|1996|133535
|2002|140131
|2006|149244
|2011|158754
|2016|159553
|2022|167690
||footnote=<ref name=cso2016/><ref>For 1653 and 1659 figures from Civil Survey Census of those years, Paper of Mr Hardinge to Royal Irish Academy 14 March 1865.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cso.ie/census |title=Census for post 1821 figures. |publisher=CSO|access-date=2012-09-14 |archive-date=9 March 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050309005718/http://www.cso.ie/census/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[http://www.histpop.org histpop.org] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160507023856/http://www.histpop.org/ |date=7 May 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |title=NISRA – Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency |publisher=Nisranew.nisra.gov.uk |access-date=2012-09-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217095720/http://www.nisranew.nisra.gov.uk/census |archive-date=17 February 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book
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|year=1981|publisher=Clarendon Press|location=Oxford, England
|chapter=On the accuracy of the [[Great Famine (Ireland)|Pre-famine]] Irish censuses}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal  | last1 = Mokyr  | first1 = Joel
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}}
{|class="wikitable"
|-
!Rank
!Town
!Population<br><small>(2016 census)</small>
|-
| align=left | 1
| [[Clonmel]]
| align=right | 17,140
|-
| align=left | 2
| [[Nenagh]]
| align=right | 8,968
|-
| align=left | 3
| [[Thurles]]
| align=right | 7,940
|-
| align=left | 4
| [[Carrick-on-Suir]]
| align=right | 5,771
|-
| align=left | 5
| [[Roscrea]]
| align=right | 5,446
|-
| align=left | 6
| [[Tipperary (town)|Tipperary]]
| align=right | 4,979
|-
| align=left | 7
| [[Cashel, County Tipperary|Cashel]]
| align=right | 4,422
|-
| align=left | 8
| [[Cahir]]
| align=right | 3,593
|-
| align=left | 9
| [[Ballina, County Tipperary|Ballina]]
| align=right | 2,632
|-
| align=left | 10
| [[Templemore]]
| align=right | 1,939
|-
| align=left | 11
| [[Fethard, County Tipperary|Fethard]]
| align=right | 1,545
|}