"of Standard Irish, northern Scotland and Central-Southern Munster agree in leniting the initial ""t"", thus one hears ""thá"" in County Waterford and County Tipperary, and ""tha"" in northern Scotland. West Munster also lenites the ""t"", but only after the preverb ""a"" ""that"" (""an fear a thá ina sheasamh ag an ndoras"" ""the man that's standing at the door"", standard Irish ""an fear atá ina sheasamh ag an doras"", Scottish Gaelic ""am fear a tha na sheasamh aig an doras""). The closest to Scottish Gaelic in modern Irish is the dialect currently spoken in County Donegal, as illustrated by the sentence"
"County Roscommon County Roscommon () is a county in Ireland. In the western region, it is part of the province of Connacht. It is the 11th largest Irish county by area and 27th most populous. Its county town and largest town is Roscommon. Roscommon County Council is the local authority for the county. The population of the county was 64,544 according to the 2016 census. County Roscommon is named after the county town of Roscommon. Roscommon comes from the Irish ""Ros"" meaning a wooded, gentle height and ""Comán"", the first abbot and bishop of Roscommon who founded the first monastery"
"Errill Errill ( ) is a village in southwest County Laois, Ireland, near the County Tipperary and County Kilkenny borders. It is centred on a village green around which sits a shop with the local post office, two pubs and a Roman Catholic church. The local primary school and village hall are approximately out of the village near St. Kierans church and Errill cemetery. Errill Gaa Field is also located about from the village. Errill was the site of an ancient monastic settlement, of which the medieval St. Kieran's Church (a national monument) is the only remnant. Also, Lisduff House,"
"unusual in having only one townland which bears the same name as the parish. Ikerrin Ikerrin (Irish: ""Uí Chairín"") is a barony in County Tipperary, Ireland. This geographical unit of land is one of 12 baronies in County Tipperary. Its chief town is Roscrea. The barony lies between Eliogarty to the south (whose chief town is Thurles) and Ormond Upper to the west (whose chief town is Toomevara). As a ""peninsula"", it is surrounded on three sides by counties Offaly and Laois. The territory is currently administered by Tipperary County Council. Baronies were created after the Norman invasion of Ireland"
"was at Castlederg, County Tyrone on 23 December 2010. Northern Ireland consists of six historic counties: County Antrim, County Armagh, County Down, County Fermanagh, County Londonderry, County Tyrone. These counties are no longer used for local government purposes; instead, there are eleven districts of Northern Ireland which have different geographical extents. These were created in 2015, replacing the twenty-six districts which previously existed. Although counties are no longer used for local governmental purposes, they remain a popular means of describing where places are. They are officially used while applying for an Irish passport, which requires one to state one's county"
"names include ""the Republic"" or ""the South"". Irish republicans, and other opponents of Partition, often refer to the state as the Twenty-Six Counties or ""26 Counties"" (with Northern Ireland as the ""Six Counties"" or ""6 Counties"") and sometimes as the ""Free State"" (a reference to the pre-1937 state). Speaking in the Dáil on 13 April 2000, Sinn Féin's Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin explained it as follows: Southern Irish Commonwealth and Southern Irish Republic were names suggested by the British publication, ""The Spectator"", in 1921. These suggestions never became widely used but are noteworthy for showing how fluid names for the territory"
"at every subsequent general election until 2011. It spanned the entire area of County Laois and most of County Offaly, and includes the towns of Abbeyleix, Birr, Edenderry, Mountrath, Portarlington, Portlaoise and Tullamore. A small part of County Offaly was in the Tipperary North constituency. It was abolished at the 2016 general election, and was replaced by the new constituencies of Laois and Offaly. The Constituency Commission proposed in its 2017 report that at the next general election a new constituency called Laois–Offaly be created. It was established by the Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017. It will replace the"
"County Tipperary County Tipperary () is a county in Ireland. It is located in the province of Munster. The county is named after the town of Tipperary, and was established in the early thirteenth century, shortly after the Norman invasion of Ireland. The population of the county was 159,553 at the 2016 census. The largest towns are Clonmel, Nenagh and Thurles. Tipperary County Council is the local government authority for the county. Between 1838 and 2014 county Tipperary was divided into two Ridings/ counties, North Tipperary and South Tipperary, which were unified under the Local Government Reform Act 2014, which"
"31 areas currently used to demarcate areas of local government in the Republic of Ireland at the level of LAU 1. In Ireland, usage of the word ""county"" nearly always comes before rather than after the county name; thus """"County"" Roscommon"" in Ireland as opposed to ""Roscommon ""County"""" in Michigan, United States. The former ""King's County"" and ""Queen's County"" were exceptions; these are now County Offaly and County Laois, respectively. The abbreviation Co. is used, as in ""Co. Roscommon"". A further exception occurs in the case of those counties created after 1994 which often drop the word ""county"" entirely, or"
"the House of Commons of Northern Ireland when it was prorogued in 1972. Fermanagh and South Tyrone (Assembly constituency) Fermanagh and South Tyrone (, Ulster Scots: ""Fermanay an Sooth Owenslann"") is a constituency in the Northern Ireland Assembly. It was first used for a Northern Ireland-only election in 1973, which elected the then Northern Ireland Assembly. It usually shares boundaries with the Fermanagh and South Tyrone UK Parliament constituency. However, the boundaries of the two constituencies were slightly different from 1983 to 1986 (because the Assembly boundaries had not caught up with Parliamentary boundary changes) and from 1996 to 1997,"
"exist. With the establishment of the Irish Free State on 6 December 1922 under the terms of the treaty, Southern Ireland ceased to exist. Southern Ireland (1921–22) Southern Ireland () was the larger of the two parts of Ireland that were created when Ireland was partitioned under the Government of Ireland Act 1920. It comprised 26 of the 32 counties of Ireland or about five-sixths of the area of the island, whilst the remaining six counties in the northeast of the island formed Northern Ireland. Southern Ireland included County Donegal, despite it being the largest county in Ulster and the"
"Act 2013. It replaced the constituencies of Tipperary North and Tipperary South. The new constituency incorporates all of South Tipperary, and most of North Tipperary except for the electoral divisions of: Aglishcloghane, Ballingarry, Ballylusky, Borrisokane, Carrig, Cloghjordan, Cloghprior, Clohaskin, Finnoe, Graigue, Kilbarron, Lorrha East, Lorrha West, Mertonhall, Rathcabban, Redwood, Riverstown, Terryglass, and Uskane, in the former Rural District of Borrisokane; and Ardcrony, Ballygibbon, Ballymackey, Knigh, and Monsea, in the former Rural District of Nenagh, which are in the new Offaly constituency. The 2013 Act defines the constituency as: The Electoral (Amendment) (Dáil Constituencies) Act 2017 defines the constituency as: Following"
"South Tyrone (Northern Ireland Parliament constituency) South Tyrone was a constituency of the Parliament of Northern Ireland. South Tyrone was a county constituency comprising the central part of County Tyrone. It was created when the House of Commons (Method of Voting and Redistribution of Seats) Act (Northern Ireland) 1929 introduced first-past-the-post elections throughout Northern Ireland. South Tyrone was created by the division of Fermanagh and Tyrone into eight new constituencies, of which five were in County Tyrone. The constituency survived unchanged, returning one member of Parliament, until the Parliament of Northern Ireland was temporarily suspended in 1972 and then formally"
"South Tipperary County Council South Tipperary County Council () was the authority responsible for local government in the county of South Tipperary, Ireland. The council had 26 elected members. The head of the council had the title of Cathaoirleach (Chairperson). The county town was Clonmel. On 26 July 2011, the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan, announced the proposed merger of North Tipperary County Council and South Tipperary County Council. It was abolished on 3 June 2014 when the Local Government Reform Act 2014 was implemented. It was succeeded by Tipperary County Council. For the purpose"
"was giving way to kinship all over Ireland, as both men were identified as of the Uí Enechglaiss and Uí Fiachrach dynasties, not of tribes. By 700, ""moccu"" had been entirely replaced by ""mac"" and ""hua"" (later ""Mac"" and ""Ó""). During the mid-8th century, what is now County Clare was absorbed into Thomond by the Déisi Tuisceart. It has remained a part of the province of Munster ever since. The name Connacht arose from the most successful of these early dynasties, The Connachta. By 1050, they had extended their rule from Rathcroghan in north County Roscommon to large areas of"
"and Sinn Féin (left wing). The area of Omeath was Irish-speaking until the early 20th century, a native dialect of Louth Irish existed there until about 1930, but is now extinct although recordings have been made. Within the county 790 people use Irish on a daily basis and 2,276 people use Irish on a weekly basis outside the education system according to the 2016 census. County Louth County Louth () is a county in Ireland. It is in the province of Leinster and is part of the Mid-East Region. It is named after the village of Louth. Louth County Council"
"Parliament constituency of 1979–2004, although ""Connaught"" occurs in some statutes. Among newspapers, the ""Connaught Telegraph"" (founded 1830) retains the anglicised spelling in its name, whereas the ""Connacht Tribune"" (founded 1909) uses the Gaelic. Connacht Rugby who represent the region and are based in Galway, use the Gaelic spelling also. The Irish language is spoken in the Gaeltacht areas of Counties Mayo and Galway, the largest being in the west of County Galway. The Galway Gaeltacht is the largest Irish-speaking region in Ireland covering Cois Fharraige, parts of Connemara, Conamara Theas, Aran Islands, Dúithche Sheoigeach and Galway City Gaeltacht. Irish-speaking areas"
"County Tyrone County Tyrone () is one of the thirty-two counties of Ireland and one of the six counties of Northern Ireland. It is no longer used as an administrative division for local government but retains a strong identity in popular culture. Adjoined to the south-west shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of and has a population of about 177,986; its county town is Omagh. The county derives its name and general geographic location from Tyrone, a Gaelic kingdom under the O'Neill dynasty which existed until the 17th century. The name ""Tyrone"" is derived , the name"
"over half of all townlands in Ulster with the prefix ""pol-"", some should probably be better translated as ""the poll of ..."". Modern townlands with the prefix ""tat-"" are confined almost exclusively to the diocese of Clogher, which covers Counties Fermanagh and Monaghan, and the barony of Clogher in County Tyrone), and cannot be confused with any other Irish word. In County Tyrone the following hierarchy of land divisions was used: ""ballybetagh"" (, meaning ""victualler's place""), ""ballyboe"", ""sessiagh"" (, meaning sixth part of a quarter), ""gort"" and ""quarter"" (). In County Fermanagh the divisions were ""ballybetagh"", ""quarter"" and ""tate"". Further"
"counties. From an administrative viewpoint, 21 of the counties in the republic are units of local government. The other six have more than one local council area, producing a total of 31 county-level authorities. County Tipperary had two ridings, North Tipperary and South Tipperary, originally established in 1838, renamed in 2001 and amalgamated in 2014. The cities of Dublin, Cork and Galway have city councils and are administered separately from the counties bearing those names. The cities of Limerick and Waterford were merged with their respective county councils in 2014 to form new city and county councils. The remaining part"
"west and south of the county as well as parts of northern Tipperary including the towns of Birr, Roscrea and Nenagh and surrounding areas. The Offaly Express was a former newspaper based in Tullamore. It closed down in July 2012 after 29 years in operation. It is now an on line news platform for the county at www.offalyexpress.ie County Offaly County Offaly () is a county in Ireland. It is part of the Midlands Region and is also located in the province of Leinster. It is named after the ancient Kingdom of Uí Failghe and was formerly known as King's"
"Rathcabbin Rathcabbin (""Ráth Cabáin"" in Irish) often Rathcabban is a small village and an electoral district situated at the very north of County Tipperary in Ireland. The village is located off the R489 regional road between Portumna, County Galway and Birr, County Offaly. It is 5 km east of the River Shannon and Lough Derg. The village contains 2 bars (Kelly's and Brophy's) and a village shop (Kelly's). The modern church of Our Lady Queen of Ireland stands at the focal point crossroads of the village. The church was dedicated in 1984. Rathcabbin was the scene of filming for an"
"taxation, local roads and social housing. The county is part of the South constituency for the purposes of European elections. For elections to Dáil Éireann, the constituency used is: Tipperary. It returns five deputies (TDs) to the Dáil. Tipperary is referred to as the ""Premier County"", a description attributed to Thomas Davis, Editor of ""The Nation"" newspaper in the 1840s as a tribute to the nationalistic feeling in Tipperary and said that ""where Tipperary leads, Ireland follows"". Tipperary was the subject of the famous song ""It's a Long Way to Tipperary"" written by Jack Judge, whose grandparents came from the"
"the passage of the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898. This Act established a county council for each of the thirty-three Irish administrative counties. Elected county councils took over the powers of the grand juries.The boundaries of the traditional counties changed on a number of occasions. The 1898 Act changed the boundaries of Counties Galway, Clare, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo, Waterford, Kilkenny, Meath and Louth, and others. County Tipperary was divided into two regions: North Riding and South Riding. Areas of the cities of Belfast, Cork, Dublin, Limerick, Derry and Waterford were carved from their surrounding counties to become county boroughs in"
"Ros Muc in Galway, Ráth Cairn in County Meath, and Teileann and Rann na Feirste in County Donegal, with instruction given by a ""bean an tí"", or Irish-speaking landlady. Popular Irish colleges/Gaeltachts include: Lurgan, Spleodar, Colaiste Sheosaimh and Uisce. Most Irish language summer colleges for teenagers in the Gaeltacht are supported and represented by CONCOS, who are based in Leitir Móir. Gaeltacht In Ireland, the term ""Gaeltacht"" refers individually to any, or collectively to all, of the districts where the government recognises that the Irish language is the predominant vernacular, or language of the home. The Gaeltacht districts were first"
"is in the Sligo–Leitrim constituency. This constituency existed from 1948 to 2007, but from 2007 until Sligo–Leitrim was re-created in 2016, County Leitrim was divided between two constituencies: Roscommon–South Leitrim and Sligo–North Leitrim. This proved controversial, and at the 2007 general election there was no TD elected whose domicile was in the county. County Leitrim County Leitrim ( , ) is a county in the Republic of Ireland. It is in the province of Connacht and is part of the Border Region. It is named after the village of Leitrim. Leitrim County Council is the local authority for the county,"
"as the constituencies of the First Dáil, established by Sinn Féin as the parliament of its self-proclaimed Irish Republic. While in theory all Irish Westminster MPs were entitled to sit in the Dáil, in practice only Sinn Féin members attended, and South Tyrone's William Coote was listed on the roll as ""as láthair"" [absent]. The Second Dáil used the single transferable vote constituencies of the 1921 home rule elections, in which the territory previously in South Tyrone was part of the eight-member House of Commons of Northern Ireland constituency of Fermanagh and Tyrone. South Tyrone (UK Parliament constituency) South Tyrone"
"North including Rathcabbin. Hurlers from the village play for the parish team Lorrha-Dorrha GAA at St. Ruadhan's Park at Moatfield, Redwood. Rathcabbin Rathcabbin (""Ráth Cabáin"" in Irish) often Rathcabban is a small village and an electoral district situated at the very north of County Tipperary in Ireland. The village is located off the R489 regional road between Portumna, County Galway and Birr, County Offaly. It is 5 km east of the River Shannon and Lough Derg. The village contains 2 bars (Kelly's and Brophy's) and a village shop (Kelly's). The modern church of Our Lady Queen of Ireland stands at"
"abolished in 1973. The seat was made up from parts of the rural districts of Clogher and Dungannon as well as the town of Dungannon. County Tyrone had five Stormont MPs from 1929 until 1972. The seats in the North and South of the county were Unionist, the constituency covering the East could be considered marginal, whilst those in the West and centre of the county were nationalist. South Tyrone was contested by the Nationalist Party once, in 1949. All other contests were triggered by either an independent unionist or member of the Northern Ireland Labour Party standing against the"
"Ó Maolchathaigh was a resident of South Tipperary county in central Ireland, which has been abolished since June 2014. The region contains several mountain ranges, one named Knockmealdown that borders Waterford. The terrain is largely secluded from other counties, contributing to the isolation of Maolchataigh's hometown and the survival of the Tipperary dialect of the Irish language until the twentieth century, which is now endangered as an entire language. The book, An Gleann Is A Raibh Ann, is a written memoir of his daily life, and has been hailed for its historical significance because it is a written source of"
"assize courts in 1838. The county's name changed to South Tipperary, and the council's name to South Tipperary County Council under the Local Government Act 2001. The Council oversaw the county as an independent local government area. The Council was made up of 21 representatives, directly elected through the system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote. Under the provisions of the ""Local Government Act 1991, (Regional Authorities) (Establishment) Order"", 1993, the territory of South Tipperary was defined as being in the South-East Region. This region was a NUTS III region of the European Union. The county"
"has the highest number of county titles in Antrim (20). Loughguile Loughguile ( ; derived ), also spelt Loughgiel or Loughgeel, is a small village and civil parish in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. Situated 8 miles east of Ballymoney it is within the Causeway Coast and Glens Council area, and is at the edge of the Glens of Antrim. It had a population of 396 people (128 households) in the 2011 Census. The local school is St Patrick's Primary School. The hurling team, Loughgiel Shamrocks, is the only team in Ulster to have won the All-Ireland Senior Club Hurling Championship,"
"County Tipperary has a strong association with the Gaelic Athletic Association which was founded in Thurles in 1884. The Gaelic Games of Hurling, Gaelic football, Camogie and Handball are organised by the Tipperary GAA County Board of the GAA. The organisation competes in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship and the All-Ireland Senior Football Championship. Tipperary, with 27 wins, are the only county to have won an all-Ireland title in every decade since the 1880s. Horse racing takes place at Tipperary Racecourse, Thurles Racecourse and Clonmel Racecourse. County Tipperary County Tipperary () is a county in Ireland. It is located in"