Editing County Tipperary (section)

==History==
[[File:Rock of Cashel, Tipperary.jpg|thumb|The [[Rock of Cashel]], seat of the [[Kings of Munster]]]]
[[File:Roscrea Brooch.jpg|thumb|The [[Roscrea Brooch]], 9th century]]
Following the [[Norman invasion of Ireland]], the [[O'Kennedy]] ruled [[Kingdom of Ormond]] was claimed as a lordship. By 1210, the [[sheriff]]dom of Munster shired into the shires of Tipperary and [[County Limerick|Limerick]].<ref name="Falkiner1904">{{cite book |author-link=Caesar Litton Falkiner |last=Falkiner|first=Caesar Litton|title=Illustrations of Irish history and topography: mainly of the seventeenth century|url=https://archive.org/details/illustrationsir01jouvgoog|access-date=14 August 2011|year=1904|publisher=Longmans, Green|pages=[https://archive.org/details/illustrationsir01jouvgoog/page/n132 108]–42|chapter=The Counties of Ireland}}</ref> In 1328, Tipperary was granted to the [[Earl of Ormond (Ireland)|Earls of Ormond]] as a [[county palatine]] or [[Liberty (division)|liberty]].<ref name="Falkiner1904"/> The grant excluded church lands such as the [[Archbishop of Cashel|archiepiscopal see]] of [[Cashel, County Tipperary|Cashel]], which formed the separate county of [[Cross Tipperary]].<ref name="Falkiner1904"/> Though the Earls gained jurisdiction over the church lands in 1662, "Tipperary and Cross Tipperary" were not definitively united until the [[County Palatine of Tipperary Act 1715]], when the [[James Butler, 2nd Duke of Ormonde|2nd Duke of Ormond]] was [[attainder|attainted]] for supporting the [[Jacobite rising of 1715]].<ref name="C760a3">{{cite book |author=Deputy keeper of the public records in Ireland |title=Fifth Report |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kVYRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA33 |access-date=2011-08-14 |series=[[Command paper]]s |volume=C.760 |date=1873-04-26 |publisher=HMSO |pages=32–37 |chapter=Appendix 3: Extract from Report of the Assistant Deputy Keeper on the Records of the Court of Record of the County Palatine of Tipperary |archive-date=12 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160512033355/https://books.google.com/books?id=kVYRAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA33 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Act2Geo1c8">{{cite book|last=Ireland|title=Statutes Passed in the Parliaments Held in Ireland|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iJVRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5|access-date=14 August 2011|volume=III: 1715–1733|year=1794|publisher=Printed by George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty|pages=5–11|chapter=2 George I c.8|archive-date=1 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140101000546/http://books.google.com/books?id=iJVRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA5|url-status=live}}</ref>

The county was divided once again in 1838.<ref name="Murphy1994">{{cite book|last=Murphy|first=Donal A.|title=The two Tipperarys: the national and local politics, devolution and self-determination, of the unique 1838 division into two ridings, and the aftermath|year=1994|publisher=Relay|isbn=9780946327133|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/twotipperarysnat0000murp}}</ref> The [[county town]] of [[Clonmel]], where the [[grand jury]] held its twice-yearly [[assizes (England and Wales)|assizes]], is at the southern limit of the county, and roads leading north were poor, making the journey inconvenient for jurors resident there.<ref name="Murphy1994"/> A petition to move the county town to a more central location was opposed by the [[Clonmel (UK Parliament constituency)|MP for Clonmel]], so instead the county was split into two "[[riding (division)|riding]]s"; the grand jury of the [[South Tipperary|South Riding]] continued to meet in Clonmel, while that of the [[North Tipperary|North Riding]] met in [[Nenagh]].<ref name="Murphy1994"/> When the [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]] established [[county council]]s to replace the grand jury for civil functions, the ridings became separate "[[Administrative counties of Ireland|administrative counties]]" with separate county councils.<ref name="Murphy1994"/> Their names were changed from "Tipperary North/South Riding" to "North/South Tipperary" by the [[Local Government Act 2001]], which redesignated all "administrative counties" as simply "counties".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2001/en/act/pub/0037/sec0010.htm|title=Local Government Act, 2001 sec.10(4)(a)|work=Irish Statute Book|access-date=22 October 2013}}{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The [[Local Government Reform Act 2014]] has amalgamated the two counties and restored a single county of Tipperary.<ref>{{cite book |author=Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government |url=http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2013/9813/b9813d.pdf#page=16 |chapter=sec.10(2) Boundaries of amalgamated local government areas |isbn=978-1-4468-0502-2 |title=Local Government Bill 2013 (As initiated) |publisher=Stationery Office |location=Dublin |date=15 October 2013 |access-date=17 October 2013 |archive-date=24 September 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924055939/http://www.oireachtas.ie/documents/bills28/bills/2013/9813/b9813d.pdf#page=16 |url-status=live }}</ref>