Tipperary Town is a small market town (population 5000) is a designated National Heritage town. It attracted worldwide attention in 1890 when its residents refused to pay rent to an English landlord. They vacated the town and built a new town, New Tipperary on its outskirts. This area is now a tourist attraction.

The Canon Hayes Sports Complex is a regional sports centre which includes a heated indoor swimming pool.

The Tipperary Excel Interpretative Centre (over £5 punt million project) provides Cultural and Entertainment facilities of the highest order.

Clan Name

Tipperary Town is part of the ancestral home of the Ryan, O'Dwyer and Bradshaws in Ireland and forms a stage of the Beara-Breifne Greenway which is based on the historic march of O'Sullivan Beara in 1603.

Greenways Festival 2003

Tipperary Town is talking part in the Greenways Festival in summer 2003 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the legendary 1603 march of O’Sullivan Beara from the Beara Peninsula to the Breifne area. Click here for info on the events