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embraced the whole Coxmty of Tipperaiy, ■with, the exception of certain 



CT-"::i :-- ''.nl'.s. Tr'niih ■: :i:=titiited, as was nsual with Chureh land in 

 P - tin; ::.ui::;-, .'.:=:::i:t shrievalty nnder the ordinaiy jnrisdiction 

 of the Eing's Co^:;i:;. Il ; 'l;"i:::ii to these districts of the Cross, there 

 was also excepted ircro. th^: Pilatiiie grant the district of Dongh Arra, 

 or 3IacBrien's country, adjacent to Killaloe, which, long a debatable 

 land on the borders of the three eonnties of Clare, Limerick, and 

 Tipperary, was ia 1606 joined by Chichester to the Cotinty of the Cross 

 of Tipperary. 



In 1621, dnring the wardship of the daughter and heiress of 

 Thomas, tenth Earl of Ormond, the Palatinate of Tipperary was seized 

 into the Crown by James I. The County of the Cross apparently 

 remained unaffected by this exertion of the Eoyal prerogative, and, as 

 already noted, it was represented in the Parliament of 1634, though 

 the county proper appears to have returned no members to that 

 assembly. The Palatinate remained in abeyance for a period of forty 

 years, till after the Eestoration it was reconstituted by Charles II. 

 in 1664, in favour of the first Duke of Ormond. The grant on 

 this occasion included both the old territory of the Cross, which never 

 thereafter returned members to ParKament, and the district of Dough 

 Arra, formerly excepted from the Palatine county. The liberties and 

 royalties of the whole County of Tipperary were enjoyed by the 

 Butiers until the attainder in 1715 of the second Duke put an end 

 to the last Irish example of these great mediaeval jurisdictions.^ 

 The Statute 2nd George I., cap. 8, " an Act for extinguishing the 

 royalties and liberties of the County of Tipperary," by its second 

 section enacted, '' that whatsoever hath been denominated or called 

 Tipperary or Cross Tipperary, shall henceforth be and remain one 

 county for ever, under the name of the County of Tipperary." 



[No attempt is made here to discuss the ongiii of the names of tLe Irish 

 counties. This may form the suhject of a sepaiate inqniry. 



The writer desires to express his ohligations to the courteous officials of the 

 Irish Eecord Office, and especially to the Assistant Deputy Keeper, Mr. H. F. 

 Berry, m.b-i.a. He has also to thank Mr. Tenison Groves, c.e., for many useful 

 suggestions. — C. L. F.j 



1 See oth Eeport of the Deputy Keeper of Public Records of Ireland, p. 7, and 

 Appendix III, pp. 33-38. 



