Difference between revisions of "Template:FP-Tipperary"
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The town is home to Tipperary Racecourse, at Limerick Junction. It has a large agricultural catchment area in west Tipperary and east County Limerick and was historically a significant market town. Today, it still boasts large butter making and milk processing industries. | The town is home to Tipperary Racecourse, at Limerick Junction. It has a large agricultural catchment area in west Tipperary and east County Limerick and was historically a significant market town. Today, it still boasts large butter making and milk processing industries. | ||
| − | Tipperary is most famous for the music-hall song ''It's a Long Way to Tipperary'' and notwithstanding that the song was written for the London stage and has no real connection with the town, it has been embraced by the town as its own.}}<noinclude> | + | Tipperary is most famous for the music-hall song ''It's a Long Way to Tipperary'' and notwithstanding that the song was written for the London stage and has no real connection with the town, it has been embraced by the town as its own.}}<noinclude>{{FP data}} |
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 8 May 2021
TipperaryTipperary is a town in County Tipperary; it gives its name to the county but avoids doing service as the county town. A town of just 4,415 souls at the last census, the town is within the Barony of Clanwilliam. The town is home to Tipperary Racecourse, at Limerick Junction. It has a large agricultural catchment area in west Tipperary and east County Limerick and was historically a significant market town. Today, it still boasts large butter making and milk processing industries. Tipperary is most famous for the music-hall song It's a Long Way to Tipperary and notwithstanding that the song was written for the London stage and has no real connection with the town, it has been embraced by the town as its own. (Read more) |
