T i r 



of committals is a, test of the state of crime, Tipperary thnt 

 . xceeded all other counties in Ireland, c\c. pt that 

 lilin, and in most cases vcr. them. < >'. 



j I in person* committed, IMC wen nml 



1 liil aciiuitlcd or discharged ; 9 of the convi' 

 lor capital offences, and 4 of the criminals were executed. 

 - 10 the number of committals was 1 , unity 



(.till retaining, or nearly so, its unhappy pre-eminence : of 

 live persons committed, 718 were convicted, and 02 

 c|iltfd or discharged ; 5 of the convictions were for capital 

 ottcuce.s, but no piT-oiis were executed. A large propor- 

 tion ol Ilit' olt'r murders, manslaughter*, assaults, 

 and other violent oli'cnces, indicative of the prevalent 

 tendency to di-'nrl.ance and insubordination. 



The county returns two members to parliament, who 



1 at Clonmell ; and one incmher each is returned 



irom the borough of Clonmell and the city of Cashel. The 



HiimlH-r of registered eleetors for the county in February of 



7, and 18-H, was ;LS follows: 



SOI. SOI. 20f. lot. in/. llolilrnof 



Free- Lmi- Free- Ix-asc- a rent- 



holder*. holders, holtlero, huM*r. holders, charge. 1V;J. 



I*i5 COO lUil '2 1-15!) 2 1 



1837 rtl 437 13 177:! 51 5 



isn 7;>2 3io K> 1217 120 44 2302 



The number of voters in Clonmell and Cashel, in the 

 same three years, was at> follows : 



w. 



IK35 

 1S37 

 1841 



1RJ3 



1H37 

 isll 



1X11 



MQ 



302 



207 



TKI.L. 

 :/. 



Freemen. 



'. '. '.Mi 



100 



TiH.il. 



686 



7! 5 



C87 



308 

 353 



Bcfore the Union the county returned eight memK 

 the Irish parliament, namely. two for the county itself, and 

 two lach tor Clonmell, Cashel, and Kotlmrd, but the 

 was disfranchise nion, and Cashel and Clonmell 



rcdured to one member each : no change in the number 

 of members was made by the Reform Act. 



The amount of grand jury presentments for the years 

 nl 1H40 was as follows : 



IMC. 



New roads, bridges, &c. . 2,21!) 13 5 3,10513 (I 

 Impairs of roads, &c. . . ln.s/1 17 7 2-I.S3I 8 

 ( 'uiirt and Sessions houses, 



lion anil repair* ol . :*> I) () C.IKK! 10 

 Gaols, bridewclli-, S:e.. 



tion and repairs of . . 3,!)!)!) 17 1 4,098 11 

 County gaol and bridewell, 



. 0,77C 8 1 8,001 13 2 



Salaries to ulliccrs in u'aoU 237 8 :)2 13 



Constabulary police. puy- 



nienls to witnesses, Jiic. . 17,i!l5 11 2 17,337 15 4 

 Salaries to county of) 



1 

 1 

 i 



lectors' poi . 5,071 3 3 5,518 (i 



Public charities . . . (..His 17 1 '/. I-',! 18 



L!.;*(>7 11 



2.33s 13 ( 



Repayments to goveraoMal 1,1)5:) 1 n 



. -llancuu* .... 2,834 13 7 



527 3 10 82,241) 2 11 



The county constabulary on the 1st January, 1840, and 



1H| I. : : 



Hi-ad 

 T. Coofttaljln. ConiUblci. Cxnutul-li-it. Horse*. 



'2nd 3rd lit 1'u.l 

 rale rate. rate. rntc. mte. rnle. 



l.l 



Sod 



r .'. 



IRIO 2 445 2 15 I 170 not 



J .". 7 3 2 1 r.:!l 7!l 17 



The whole expenditure on the constabulary force in the 

 yearlK3:i nd in 1840,1 -. lo,/ 



The amount of the constabulary force and the cost ol 

 maintaining it ore greater than in any other county in 

 Ireland. 

 There is a county lunalic asylum at Clonmell; which in 



'i, I'-.ll. i-onl-.i 

 an expense of 'i-^l. : : 

 ur ZU. (i. 9rf. for each patient. There i* a county in- 



T i r 



iirnmry fit Clonmell, into which the following number of 

 patient! were admitted: 



In-l'atirnu. IhiM'.itimU. TnUl. 



470B 



1830 27H -17.'!) 



326 7700 



There are liver hospitals at Hurris-o'-Kane. Cahir, 

 Carrick-on-Suir, Cashel, Clogheen, Clonmell, Clou'lijoulan, 

 Nenagh, Uoscrea, Templemore, and Tippcrarv : and dis- 

 pensaries at Ballinsriirry. liallymackay, HaliynKin'y and 

 Kilcooley, Hallyporcen. BirdMll, Houruey, Uurris-o'-l.i-auh, 

 Hunis-o'-K:uH^ Cahir. Ca])])airhwlnte, Carrick-on-Suir, 

 Cloirheen. (Monniell, Cloghjonlan, l)rancan. Hundnim, 

 l-'ethard. Golden, Grancemoekler, Killcnaulc. Kilshelan, 

 Littlt'on, Lorrha, Mnlliiiahone, Ni'iiairh. Newcastle, New- 

 port, Portroe, Poulmucca, Koserca. Rosegreen, Sil vejmiaeti 

 1'emplemore, Teni]>letuohy, Thomastown, Thurles, Tippc- 

 rary. and Toomavara. 



History and Anlii]ititirs. Sir .lames \Vnre siipposes that 

 the Coriondi i Kopioi^oc) and the Udiae, or rather I odi 



I odiac 



11), of Ptolemy, occupied this county and the adjacent 

 ones to the west anil south-west. We think it not impro- 

 bable that the Briirantes Hp/ynrr^ may have occupied 

 the south-eastern parts, while the Uodiae occupied the 

 south-western. 



In the division which prevailed before the Enuli-Oi con- 

 quest the following territories are noticed by 

 Ware as corresponding to portions of this comity : 



.Irailli-i'liarh: probably the half-barony of Arm. in the 

 western part of the county, on the bank of Lough Dcrij 

 and of the Shannon. 



Corca-Eatlir'icli: the territory round Cashel, compre- 

 hending part of the Vale of Goulin, or Golden Vale. Some 

 I consider the territory of North Desiesto be identical 

 with this. 



KiiS'marht: a name common to a sept or clan, and to 

 the territory occupied by them near Thurles. 



Hij-Fiigurta: the country of the sept of OTogarty, in 

 the neighbourhood of Thurles. 



Hy-Kfri : the country of the sept of O'Meneher. This 

 territory has retained its name with little alteration, being 

 now the barony of Ikerin. 



Mufi-iaifn-Tliii-i-, or .Vnsrniighe-TMre: the country 

 the sept of Kennedy, now the baronies of Upper and 

 Lower Ormond, :i name which signifies East .Minister. 



In tin iaiU periods of Irish history these tern' 

 appear to have been divided between the kimrdo 

 Thomond or North Minister, governed by princes o'l the 

 -Man race; and Desmond, 01 South Minister, held l'\ 

 princes of the Koganacht or Kugeniau family; the ] 

 of which two kingdoms appear to have possessed in alter- 

 nate succession the paramount dominion of Minister. 

 Karly in the ninth century, soon after the landing of tl e 

 Northmen or Dams or as they are usually termed in Irish 

 history, from the position of their Original country with 

 ;rr to Ireland, the (si-men, or Ka-t-men under 

 their king Tnrgesius, Feidlim Mac-Crimthan. king o: 

 monil. held the paramount sovereignty of Minister. The 

 capital of his kingdom was Ca-hcl. His course, which 

 was one of violence and tyranny, was marked by success : 

 he was victorious over tlie chieftains of Connaught and 

 over the king of Meath, the nominal sovereign of all Ire- 

 land. At the .iient ol the tenth century the 



were united ill Cormac 



MacCulimui, bishop of Cashel and kiiiir of MunMer. of the 

 act race. He was not the iirst of his family in whom 

 had been combined. In 907 he defeated 

 Klann-Siona, king of Meath and titular monarch of Ireland, 

 on the heath of Moylcna, in King's County; but having 

 attempted to enforce the tribute which 'the people of 

 Leinster had been compelled reluctantly to pay i 

 I Munster, he was defeated and siain \.K'. IKi'- 

 nister forces, supported by the monarch of Ireland 

 and the princes of the northern part of the island. Coimae 

 built a chapel at Ca-hel, which still retains his name, and 

 1'iiled author of the history commonly called 

 The Psalter of Cashel.' 



Callachan, who was king of Cashel towards the middle 

 of the tenth century, appears in the history of this troubled 

 period a, an acfi\i> but unprincipled \vairior. II 

 render v,-n subjects into the hand ol Miirkrrlach, 



of to the monarchy of Ireland. In the latiei 

 part of the same century the throne ol Munster was occu- 



