23-622: Tipperary South may refer to: South Tipperary , a former county in Ireland Tipperary South (Dáil constituency) , a former parliamentary constituency represented in Dáil Éireann Tipperary South (UK Parliament constituency) , a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about distinct geographical locations with
46-534: A committee was established under the direction of Thomas Spring Rice , MP for Limerick , to oversee the foundation of an Irish Ordnance Survey. Spring Rice believed in the importance of Irish involvement in the mapping process but was overruled by the Duke of Wellington , who did not believe Irish surveyors were qualified for the task. Instead, the Irish Ordnance Survey was initially staffed entirely by members of
69-696: A new Tipperary County Council . The county was part of the central plain of Ireland, but the diversified terrain contained several mountain ranges, notably the Knockmealdowns and the Galtees . The county was landlocked and drained by the River Suir . The centre of the county included much of the Golden Vale , a rich pastoral stretch of land in the Suir basin which extends into counties Limerick and Cork. The county town
92-796: The Aran Islands and Killarney national park) and the Geology of Ireland. Thomas Colby , the long-serving Director-General of the Ordnance Survey in Great Britain, was the first to suggest that the Ordnance Survey be used to map Ireland. A highly detailed survey of the whole of Ireland would be extremely useful for the British government, both as a key element in the process of levying local taxes based on land valuations and for military planning. In 1824,
115-651: The British Army . From 1825–46, teams of surveyors led by officers of the Royal Engineers , and men from the ranks of the Royal Sappers and Miners , traversed Ireland, creating a unique record of a landscape undergoing rapid transformation. The resulting maps (primarily at 6″ scale, with greater detail for urban areas, to an extreme extent in Dublin) portrayed the country in a degree of detail never attempted before, and when
138-454: The Down Survey as an intermediate subdivision, with multiple townlands per parish and multiple parishes per barony. The civil parishes had some use in local taxation and were included on the nineteenth century maps of the Ordnance Survey of Ireland . For poor law purposes, district electoral divisions replaced civil parishes in the mid-nineteenth century. There were 123 civil parishes in
161-602: The Dublin City and District Street Guide , an atlas of Dublin city, and the Complete Road Atlas of Ireland which it published in co-operation with Land and Property Services Northern Ireland (formerly the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland). The board also published (jointly with OSNI) a series of 1:50000 maps of the entire island known as the Discovery Series and a series of 1:25000 maps of places of interest (such as
184-783: The Phoenix Park in Dublin , which had previously been the headquarters of the British Ordnance Survey in Ireland until 1922. In March 2023, the Ordnance Survey was dissolved and its functions transferred to a new body called Tailte Éireann , which also incorporates the Property Registration Authority and the Valuation Office. Under the Ordnance Survey Ireland Act 2001, the Ordnance Survey of Ireland
207-582: The public domain and while the originals can be hard to find, they can be freely reproduced. The British Ordnance Survey ceased to map Ireland just before the creation of the Irish Free State in 1922 (the Partition of Ireland having already taken place in May 1921 upon the creation of Northern Ireland ). The new Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) officially came into existence on 1 January 1922, while
230-702: The NUTS regions, after the amalgamation of the counties, brought both under the Mid-West Region. There were native speakers of Irish in South Tipperary until the middle of the 20th century. Recordings of their dialect, made before the last native speakers died, have been made available through a project of the Royal Irish Academy Library. Ordnance Survey of Ireland Ordnance Survey Ireland (OSI; Irish : Suirbhéireacht Ordanáis Éireann )
253-605: The North Riding of Cappagh, Curraheen and Glengar, and the portions of the town of Carrick-on-Suir and the borough of Clonmel previously in County Waterford . It took effect on 1 April 1899. In 2002, under the Local Government Act 2001 , the county's name was changed to South Tipperary, and the council's name to South Tipperary County Council . The council oversaw the county as a local government area. The council
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#1733093641373276-522: The county. The South Riding of Tipperary had been a judicial county following the establishment of assize courts in 1838. The administrative county of Tipperary, South Riding was created under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898 as the area of the existing judicial county of the South Riding of the county of Tipperary, with the addition of the district electoral divisions previously in
299-557: The new Ordnance Survey of Ireland (OSI) came into being slightly later, on 1 April 1922. The OSI was initially part of the Irish Army under the Department of Defence . All staff employed were military personnel until the 1970s, when the first civilian employees were recruited. In more recent times, the Ordnance Survey of Ireland replaced traditional ground surveying with mapping based primarily on aerial photography. It has also worked with
322-636: The operation were Thomas Colby and Lieutenant Thomas Larcom . They were assisted by George Petrie , who headed the Survey's Topographical Department which employed the likes of John O'Donovan and Eugene O'Curry in scholarly research into placenames. Captain J.E. Portlock compiled extensive information on agricultural produce and natural history, particularly geology. Despite the exclusion of Irish surveyors, this mapping scheme provided numerous opportunities for employment to Irish people, who worked as skilled or semi-skilled fieldwork labourers, and as clerks in
345-592: The postal service, An Post , to gather and structure geographic data. In 2022, the Tailte Éireann Act dissolved the Property Registration Authority and OSI and transferred the functions of those bodies, along with the functions of the Commissioner of Valuation and the Boundary Surveyor, to Tailte Éireann . The dissolution and transfer took effect on 1 March 2023. The national survey carried out between 1825 and 1846
368-514: The same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tipperary_South&oldid=933211268 " Category : Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages South Tipperary South Tipperary ( Irish : Tiobraid Árann Theas )
391-488: The subsidiary Memoir project that was designed to illustrate and complement the maps by providing data on the social and productive worth of the country. The total cost of the Irish Survey was £860,000 (adjusted for inflation, equivalent to approximately £100,000,000 in 2018). The original survey was later revisited and revised maps were issued on a number of occasions. All of these historical maps (at least up to 1922) are in
414-450: The survey of the whole country was completed in 1846, it was a world first. Both the maps and surveying were executed to a high degree of engineering excellence available at the time using triangulation and with the help of tools developed for the project, most notably the strong "limelight". The concrete triangulation posts built on the summits of many Irish mountains can still be seen to this day. The Royal Engineer officers in charge of
437-541: Was Clonmel ; other important urban centres included Carrick-on-Suir , Cashel , Cahir and Tipperary . The county's motto was Vallis Aurea Siurensis ( Latin : The Golden Vale of the Suir ). There were six historic baronies in South Tipperary: Clanwilliam , Iffa and Offa East , Iffa and Offa West , Kilnamanagh Lower , Middle Third and Slievardagh . Civil parishes in Ireland were delineated after
460-479: Was a county in Ireland in the province of Munster . It was named after the town of Tipperary and consisted of 52% of the land area of the traditional county of Tipperary . South Tipperary County Council was the local authority for the county. The population of the county was 88,433 according to the 2011 census. It was abolished on 1 June 2014, and amalgamated with North Tipperary to form County Tipperary under
483-634: Was composed of 26 representatives, directly elected through the system of proportional representation by means of a single transferable vote (PR-STV). South Tipperary was part of the South-East Region , a NUTS III region of the European Union , whereas North Tipperary was part of the Mid-West Region . At a NUTS II level, both counties were in the Southern and Eastern region. A revision to
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#1733093641373506-665: Was dissolved and a new corporate body called Ordnance Survey Ireland was established in its place. OSI was an autonomous corporate body, with a remit to cover its costs of operation from its sales of data and derived products, which sometimes raised concerns about the mixing of public responsibilities with commercial imperatives. It employed 235 staff in the Phoenix Park and in six regional offices in Cork , Ennis , Kilkenny , Longford , Sligo and Tuam . OSI had sales of €13.3 million in 2012. The most prominent consumer publications of OSI were
529-626: Was the national mapping agency of the Republic of Ireland . It was established on 4 March 2002 as a body corporate. It was the successor to the former Ordnance Survey of Ireland. It and the Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland (OSNI) were themselves the successors to the Irish operations of the British Ordnance Survey . OSI was part of the Irish public service . OSI was headquartered at Mountjoy House in
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