Editing County Tipperary (section)

===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>