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Tipperary is the sixth-largest of the 32 counties by area and the 12th largest by population. [5] It is the third-largest of Munster's six counties by both size and population. It is also the largest landlocked county in Ireland. Tipperary is bounded (clockwise) by counties Offaly, Laois, Kilkenny, Waterford, Cork, Limerick, Clare and Galway.
Map of Limerick. Limerick (/ ˈ l ɪ m ər ɪ k / ⓘ LIM-ər-ik; [5] Irish: Luimneach [ˈl̪ˠɪmʲ(ə)nʲəx]) is a city in western Ireland, in County Limerick.It is in the province of Munster and is in the Mid-West which comprises part of the Southern Region.
The highest point in the county is located in its southeast corner at Galtymore (919 m), which separates Limerick from County Tipperary. Limerick shares the 3rd-highest county peak in Ireland with Tipperary. The county is not simply a plain, its topography consists of hills and ridges.
Historically it has been called the Golden Vein.An early instance is an 1837 book by Jonathan Binns, a British government official, where he refers to the area as '"the golden vale" (more correctly the "golden vein")' [3] and states "The land is of excellent quality, being part of the golden vein of Ireland—a district reaching from Tipperary towards Limerick.
The cities of Limerick and Waterford were merged with their respective counties by the Local Government Reform Act 2014, to form new cities and counties. The same Act also abolished North Tipperary and South Tipperary and re-established County Tipperary as an administrative unit.
Ireland portal; This is a sortable table of the approximately 2,068 townlands in County Limerick, Ireland. [1] [2]Duplicate names occur where there is more than one townland with the same name in the county.
It consists of the counties of Clare and Tipperary, and the city and county of Limerick. Limerick City is the economic centre of the region. It spans 10,511 km 2, 14.95% of the total area of the state and as of the 2022 census, it had a population of 505,369. [1]
Per the Local Government Reform Act 2014, joining both Tipperarys and both Waterfords (and removing Limerick City code). Colouring in islands, cleaning up and grouping code to remove stray objects and show Galway and Lough Ree.