TIPPERARY, a market town of Ireland, formerly chief town of the county of the same name, stands on the Arra, an affluent of the Suir, and on the Limerick and Waterford Railway, 25 miles S.E. of Limerick. It is pleasantly situated in a plain near the foot of the Slievenamuck hills, and for an Irish town is pretty well built. It consists principally of one main street, which is well paved and clean; and has a handsome parish church with a tower and spire, a large Roman Catholic chapel, a Methodist meeting-house, several schools, a market-house, jail, &c. A considerable trade is carried on here in the agricultural produce of the surrounding country. Pop. (1851) 7001.