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captured by the Irish, and nearly all the relations of the
earl were at once involved in the insurrection. In 1647,
it suffered from the military ravages of Lord Inchiquin,
who took Cahir and Cashel, and ravaged the whole
county. After the fall of Clonmel in 1650, a great
portion of the forfeited lands of the rebels was divided
amongst the parliamentarian adventurers, and subse-
quently confirmed to them by the act of settlement after
the Restoration. James, Duke of Ormonde, obtained
confirmation of all his ancient paternal property by
several patents and statutes of Chas. II., and the royalties
and liberties thereby granted were extended over the
county at large, including the Gross of Tipperary, and
were confirmed by act of parliament in the 14th and
15th of the same king. James, grandson of the Great
Duke, was impeached on the accession of Geo. I., and,
fleeing to France, was attainted of high treason by an
act of the British parliament, and his estates con-
fiscated; and by an act of the Irish parliament, in the
2nd of Geo. I., all the liberties, regalities, franchises,
courts of law and equity, jurisdictions, rights, power
and authorities, granted by the letters patent and acts
of parliament above mentioned, were for ever extin-
guished, and the rolls and records thereof, consisting of
the pleadings in the court palatine of Tipperary from
1662 to 1714 and leases of lands from the Duke during
the same period, were deposited chiefly in the Rolls Office
of Chancery in Ireland, and a few in the office of the Chiro-
grapher of the Common Pleas. However, by an English
statute in 1721, his brother, the Earl of Arran, was
enabled to purchase the estates, and after his Grace’s
death without issue, succeeded as heir and representa-
tive of the Butlers of Ireland. From this nobleman’s
time until the year 1791, the ancient honours of the
house of Ormonde remained dormant; but in that year
John Butler, Esq., of the castle of Kilkenny, was res-
tored to the earldoms of Ormond and Ossory, Viscounty
of Thurles, &c.; no statute of restoration being deemed
necessary on the occasion, as the title had not been
attainted by an act of the Irish parliament. The pre-
sent Marquess of Ormonde still retains the honorary
office of Chief Butler, but the profits of the butlerage
and prisage were purchased from the family for
£216,000, under the 46th, 50th, and 51st of Geo. III.,
and vested in the Crown for the benefit of the public.
The county is partly in the dioceses of Lismore,
Emly, and Killaloe, but chiefly in that of Cashel: for
purposes of civil jurisdiction it is divided into the
baronies of Clanwilliam, Eliogarty, Iffa and Offa East,
Iffa and Offa West, Ikerrin, Kilnemanagh, Middlethird,
Lower Ormond, Upper Ormond, Owney and Arra, and
Slievardagh. It contains the borough, assize and market-
town of Clonmel; the city and borough of Cashel; the
corporate, market, and post-town of Fethard, formerly
a parliamentary borough; the market and post-towns
of Nenagh, Thurles, Carrick-on-Suir, Tipperary, Ros-
crea, Clogheen, Killenaule, Cahir, and Templemore;
and the post-towns of Burris-o’-Leagh, Burris-o’-Kane,
Cloghjordan, Newport, Golden, Littleton, and New
Birmingham: the largest villages are Bansha, (which
has a penny post) Emly, Toomavara, Silvermines,
Ballina, Ballingarry, and Mullinahone. It sent eight
members to the Irish parliament, two for the county,
and two for each of the boroughs of Clonmel,
Cashel, and Fethard; but since the Union its represen-
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tatives in the Imperial parliament have been two for
the county and one for each of the boroughs of Clon-
mel and Cashel. The county members are elected at
Clonmel: the constituency, as registered up to Jan. 1st,
1837, consisted of 837 £50, 379 £20, and 1600 £10
freeholders; 62 £20 and 228 £10 leaseholders; and
16 £50 and 15 £20 rent chargers; making a total
of 3137 voters. The county is included in the Lein-
ster Circuit. The local government is vested in a
lieutenant, 30 deputy-lieutenants, and 153 other magis-
trates, with the usual county officers, including 4 cor-
oners. There are 99 constabulary police stations,
comprising altogether a force of 2 magistrates, 10
chief officers, 77 constables, 464 men and 21 horses.
The county gaol is at Clonmel, and there are bridewells
at Cahir, Clogheen, Tipperary, Cashel, New Birming-
ham, Thurles, Templemore, Roscrea, Nenagh, Burris-
o’-Kane and Newport. The lunatic asylum for the
county is at Clonmel; where also is the county House
of Industry, with a lunatic asylum attached to it, prin-
cipally for cases of idiotcy: the county infirmary is at
Cashel: there are Fever hospitals at Clonmel, Tipperary,
Cahir, Burris-o’-Kane, Clógheen, Cloghjordan, Cashel,
Carrick-on-Suir, Nenagh, Roscrea, and Templernore;
and dispensaries at Ballingarry, Bird Hill, Burris-o’-
Leagh, Burris-o’-Kane, Ballyporeen, Clonmel, Drangan,
Golden, Kilsheelan, Newcastle, Portroe, Poulmucka,
Lorrha, Carrick-on-Suir, Cahir, Clogheen, Cappagh-
white, Cloghjordan, Dundrum, Fethard, Killenaule, Mul-
linahone, Nenagh, Newport, Ballynonty, Roscrea, Silver-
mines, Tipperary, Thurles, Templemore, Toomavarra,
Littleton and Ballymacky, each maintained by equal
Grand Jury presentments and private subscriptions.
The Grand Jury presentments for 1835 amounted to
£56,795. 16. 0., of which £442. 6. 6. was for new roads
and bridges, &c.; £21,629. 2. 10. for repairs of roads
and bridges; £20,065. 16. 1. for public buildings,
charities, officers’ salaries and incidents; £11,811.7.10.
for the police; and £2847. 2. 9. for repayments of
advances made by Government. In the military arrange-
ments the county is partly in the western, but chiefly
in the south-western, district; and within its limits are
nine barracks, or military stations: four for cavalry, at
Cahir, Carrick-on-Suir, Clogheen, and Fethard; four
for infantry, at Cashel, Nenagh, Roscrea, and Temple-
more; and one for cavalry, artillery and infantry at
Clonmel; the whole capable of accommodating 139
officers and 2938 men.
The surface of the county is composed of several
extensive and fertile tracts of champaign country, sepa-
rated from each other by ranges of hills. The greatest
tract of level country is that watered by the Suir, from
its source near Roscrea to Ardfinnan, extending in
length about 50 miles, and in breadth averaging 15.
Although it presents a nearly level appearance, when
viewed from the surrounding heights, owing to the
general equality of its successive swells, it is found
to be diversified with slightly depressed valleys and
gentle elevations, which, combined with an exuberant
fertility, present a pleasing though by no means a pic-
turesque succession of scenery. The part of this plain
between the Kilnamanagh and Galtee ranges, in the
centre of which the town of Tipperary is situated, and
which is bounded by a line drawn from Bansha and
Thomastown. near Golden on the east, and by another