Qualla: County Tipperary https://qualla.com/county-tipperary en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:12 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: County Tipperary https://qualla.com/county-tipperary County Tipperary: Introduction https://qualla.com/county-tipperary/ It's a long way to Tipperary - so said the marching song, sung by British regiments across the muddy fields of the First World War. The song's writer, Jack Judge, had never been there, but his grandparents had, and that was apparently enough. Tipperary has that quality. People who left it generations ago still carry the name. Inside Ireland, this is the Premier County, the only place in the country to have won an All-Ireland title in every decade since the 1880s. It is also Ireland's largest inland county, the only one with no coastline, and it borders eight others - more than any county on the island.

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]]> Sat, 23 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/6/7/county-tipperary-wp/gc67-county-tipperary-horses-and-hurleys.mp3 0:06 4 full County Tipperary: Layers of History https://qualla.com/county-tipperary/ Long before Norman lords arrived, the Eóganacht kings ruled most of Munster from the Rock of Cashel - a limestone bluff still the most photographed silhouette in the county. After 1210 the new English administration carved Tipperary out of the old sheriffdom of Munster. In 1328 t...

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