The Grand Jury (Ireland) Act 1836 empowered the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland to divide Irish counties into ridings with separate assizes held in different towns.Murphy 1994 p.291; This was to allow County Tipperary to be divided in 1838 into a North Riding and South Riding, because the county town of Clonmel was inconveniently far south for jurors from the north.Murphy 1994 p.251 Nenagh became the North Riding's assize town.Murphy 1994 p.91 The ridings became separate administrative counties, with minor boundary adjustments, under the Local Government (Ireland) Act 1898,Murphy 1994 p.109 and were redenominated as counties "North Tipperary" and "South Tipperary" under the Local Government Act 2001. They were merged back into a single County Tipperary by the Local Government Reform Act 2014.
