an inland city and parliamentary borough in the county of Tipperary, Ireland, with a population in 1851 of 4798. The town is rather handsome, with a wide and well built main street, but has been far from prosperous, probably for want of the requisite means of communication with other parts of the country. The chief object of interest is the "Rock of Cashel," which may be seen from a distance of many miles, and which commands a beautiful prospect over the city and the county of Tipperary. This rocky elevation, covered with the most beautiful grass, rises abruptly out of the plain, and stands close to the town. On its summit is the finest assemblage of ruins in Ireland. They consist of the ancient cathedral, the largest and most remarkable ecclesiastical remains in the country; Cormack's chapel, considered to be the oldest stone building in Ireland; and a round tower which differs in the material of which it is composed from all that surrounds it—the other ruins and the rock itself being of limestone, whilst the round tower is built of freestone. The chief buildings in the city are the new cathedral, a spacious modern church; the palace attached to the see, now converted into a deanery house; the Roman Catholic chapel; the market-house; court-house, &c. Cashel, formerly an archiepiscopal see, was reduced to a bishopric by the Church Temporalities act in 1833; and the bishop now resides at Waterford. It returns one member to parliament, and was formerly a corporate town, but the corporation was extinguished by the Municipal Reform act. Constituency in 1853, 126. The Great Western railway passes within 6 miles of the town, which is distant 108 miles S.W. from Dublin. (H.S.—H.)