North Tipperary | |
Type: | county |
Parliament: | uk |
Year: | 1885 |
Abolished: | 1922 |
Seats: | 1 |
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North Tipperary was a UK Parliament constituency in Ireland, returning one Member of Parliament from 1885 to 1922. Prior to the 1885 United Kingdom general election the area was part of the Tipperary (UK Parliament constituency). From 1922, on the establishment of the Irish Free State, it was not represented in the UK Parliament.
This constituency comprised the northern part of County Tipperary.
1885–1922: The baronies of Ormond Lower, Ormond Upper, and Owney and Arra, and that part of the barony of Kilnamanagh Upper contained within the parishes of Glenkeen and Upperchurch.
Esmonde's death causes a by-election, in which three nationalists contested each other.