Editing North Tipperary

{{Short description|Former Irish county (1899–2014)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}}
{{Use Hiberno-English|date=July 2015}}
{{Infobox settlement
|settlement_type   = Former County <br /> 1899–2014
|name              = North Tipperary
|other_name        = Tipperary (North Riding)
|native_name       = {{lang|ga|Tiobraid Árann Thuaidh}}
|image_map         = North Tipperary in Ireland.svg
|area_total_km2    = 2046
|seat_type         = [[County town]]
|seat              = [[Nenagh]]
|blank_name_sec1   = [[Vehicle registration plates of Ireland|Car plates]]
|blank_info_sec1   = TN <small>(1987–2013)</small>
|population        = 70,322
|population_as_of  = [[2011 census of Ireland|2011]]
|government_type   = [[North Tipperary County Council]]
|established_title = [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898|Created]]
|established_date  = 1 April 1899
|extinct_title     = [[Local Government Reform Act 2014|Abolished]]
|extinct_date      = 1 June 2014
|subdivision_type  = [[List of sovereign states|Country]]
|subdivision_name  = [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]]
|subdivision_type1 = [[Provinces of Ireland|Province]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[Munster]]
}}

'''North Tipperary''' ({{langx|ga|Tiobraid Árann Thuaidh}}) was a [[Counties of Ireland|county]] in [[Republic of Ireland|Ireland]] in the [[Provinces of Ireland|province]] of [[Munster]]. It was named after the town of [[Tipperary (town)|Tipperary]] (which was in [[South Tipperary]]) and consisted of 48% of the land area of the traditional [[County Tipperary|county of Tipperary]]. [[North Tipperary County Council]] was the [[Local government in the Republic of Ireland|local authority]] for the county. In 2011, the population of the county was 70,322.<ref>[http://www.cso.ie/px/pxeirestat/Statire/SelectVarVal/saveselections.asp Census of Ireland, 2011.] ''Central Statistics Office'', "Actual and Percentage Change in Population by Aggregate Town or Rural Area, Sex, Province County or City, Statistical Indicator and Census Year".</ref>

It was abolished on 1 June 2014, amalgamated with [[South Tipperary]] to form County Tipperary, administered by a new [[Tipperary County Council]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tipperarycoco.ie/news/tipperary-county-council |title=Tipperary County Council |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140606211104/http://www.tipperarycoco.ie/news/tipperary-county-council |archive-date=6 June 2014 |date=29 May 2014 |quote=Tipperary County Council will become an official unified authority on Tuesday, 3rd June 2014. The new authority combines the existing administration of North Tipperary County Council and South Tipperary County Council.}}</ref><ref>{{cite ISB |year=2014|num=1 |title=[[Local Government Reform Act 2014]] |section=9 |stitle=Cesser and amalgamation of certain local government areas}}</ref><ref>{{cite ISB|year=2014|num=214|type=si|title=Local Government Reform Act 2014 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) (No. 3) Order 2014|date=22 May 2014|signedby=[[Phil Hogan]], [[Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government]]}}</ref>

==Geography and subdivisions==
[[File:KeeperHill.jpg|Keeper Hill|thumb|right]]
The county was part of the central plain of Ireland, but the diversified terrain contained several mountain ranges: the [[Arra Hills]], [[Silvermine Mountains]] and the [[Devil's Bit]]. The county was [[landlocked]]. The southern part of the former county is drained by the [[River Suir]]; the northern part is drained by tributaries of the [[River Shannon]] which widens into [[Lough Derg (Shannon)|Lough Derg]]. The centre of the county included much of the [[Golden Vale]], a rich pastoral stretch of land in the Suir basin which extends into counties [[County Limerick|Limerick]] and [[County Cork|Cork]].

Its population centres included [[Nenagh]] (the [[county town]]), [[Borrisoleigh]], [[Templemore]], [[Thurles]], and [[Roscrea]].

===Baronies===
There were six historic [[Barony (Ireland)|baronies]] in North Tipperary: [[Eliogarty]],  [[Ikerrin]],  [[Ormond Upper]], [[Ormond Lower]], [[Owney and Arra]] and [[Kilnamanagh Upper]].

===Civil parishes and townlands===
{{Main|List of civil parishes of Ireland#Tipperary}}
[[Civil parishes in Ireland]] 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 were 86 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. |access-date=16 June 2011 |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>

==Local government==
[[File:Lough derg.jpg|Lough Derg|thumb|right]]
The North [[Riding (division)|Riding]] had existed as a judicial county following the establishment of [[Assizes|assize courts]] in 1838. The [[administrative county]] of '''Tipperary, North Riding''' was created under the [[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]] as the area of the existing judicial county of the North Riding of the county of Tipperary, except for the district electoral divisions of Cappagh, Curraheen and Glengar (which were transferred to the South Riding). It took effect on 1 April 1899.<ref>{{Cite ISB|title=[[Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898]]|year=1898|number=37|section=68|stitle=Boundaries of counties, unions, rural districts, and district electoral divisions|date=12 August 1898|parl=uk|regy=61 & 62 Vict.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=27th Report of the Local Government Board for Ireland (Cmd. 9480)| chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/op1253906-1001/page/312/mode/2up |chapter=Orders declaring the boundaries of administrative counties and defining county electoral divisions: County of Tipperary, North Riding |year=1900 |publisher=[[Local Government Board for Ireland]] |location=Dublin |pages=312 }}</ref>

In 2002, the county's name was changed under the [[Local Government Act 2001]] to North Tipperary, and the council's name to [[North Tipperary County Council]].<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|title=[[Local Government Act 2001]]|year=2001|number=37|section=10|stitle=Local government areas|date=21 July 2001}}</ref> The council oversaw the county as a local government area. The council comprised 21 representatives, directly elected through the system of [[proportional representation]] by means of a [[single transferable vote]] (PR-STV).<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|title=Local Government Act 2001|year=2001|number=37|schedno=7|stitle=Number of members of local authorities|date=21 July 2001}}</ref>

Under the Regional Authorities established in 1994, North Tipperary was part of the [[Mid-West Region, Ireland|Mid-West Region]], a [[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS III]] region of the [[European Union]], whereas [[South Tipperary]] was part of the [[South-East Region, Ireland|South-East Region]].<ref>{{cite ISB|year=1993|type=si|num=394|title=Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order 1993|date=20 December 1993}}</ref> At a [[Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics|NUTS II]] level, both counties were in the [[Southern and Eastern]] region.<ref>{{Cite Irish legislation|year=1999|type=si|number=226|name=Local Government Act 1991 (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order 1999|date=19 July 1999}}</ref> A revision to the NUTS regions, after the amalgamation of the counties, brought both under the Mid-West Region.<ref>{{cite web |title=Information Note for Data Users: revision to the Irish NUTS 2 and NUTS 3 Regions |url=https://www.cso.ie/en/methods/informationnotefordatausersrevisiontotheirishnuts2andnuts3regions/ |website=[[Central Statistics Office (Ireland)|CSO]]}}</ref>

The council also claimed the title of ''The Premier County'',<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.tipperarynorth.ie/council/yourcouncil_abo_int.html |title=Introduction to North Tipperary |access-date=12 July 2010 |archive-date=21 January 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110121162648/http://www.tipperarynorth.ie/council/yourcouncil_abo_int.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> a title which was usually taken to refer to the undivided territory of both north and south Tipperary. Following the division of the original county, North Tipperary was not granted its own [[List of Irish counties' coats of arms|coat of arms]].

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