The name for Tipperary (Hotels, Tipperary, Ireland) comes from the Gaelic Tiobraid Arann, meaning well of Era. Tipperary was controlled by the Kings of Munster until the ascension of Brian Boru. Tipperary was predominately free from Viking exploitation, and the coming of the Anglo-Normans saw Tipperary placed in the protective custody of the Butlers until the forces of Oliver Cromwell ravaged Ireland.
Antiquities
This 70-acre town park (part of the former Carden demesne) are the remains of Templemore Abbey and Black Castle is situated on the plain beneath the Western slopes of the Devil’s Bit Mountain. There is a large lake and swimming pool in this park. The upper reaches of the River Suir near the town provides facility for brown trout fishing. The lake in the town park is a store of variety of fish like pike, roach, perch and tench. The North Tipperary Foxhounds are very common here. The once old British (later Irish) army barracks, now fully refurbished as a modern Garda training college is the place to train Ireland’s Gardai (police force).