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Tipperary — Seat of the Kings of Munster

Tipperary takes its name from Tiobraid Árann, ‘the well of Ara’, and as Ireland’s largest inland county it holds some of the richest farmland in the country, the Golden Vale.

THE COUNTY OF TIPPERARY

Seat of the Kings of Munster

Contae Thiobraid Árann · The Premier County · Munster

Tipperary takes its name from Tiobraid Árann, ‘the well of Ara’, and as Ireland’s largest inland county it holds some of the richest farmland in the country, the Golden Vale.

This is the Rock of Cashel, where the Kings of Munster were crowned for centuries and where, tradition holds, St Patrick himself baptised King Aenghus — a limestone outcrop crowned with a thousand years of history.

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