Tipperary is a big county, but the working end of it from Kilkenny is very manageable: Carrick-on-Suir is thirty minutes down the R697, Clonmel another fifteen beyond that, and the N76/N24 makes the whole Suir valley a comfortable half-day loop. North Tipp — Thurles, Templemore, Nenagh, Roscrea — connects via the N75 and M8 and gets covered on scheduled run days.
The regular diet: house moves around Clonmel's estates and the Fethard road, furniture deliveries in Thurles and Cashel, Marketplace pickups everywhere (Tipperary sellers price fairly, which Kilkenny buyers have noticed), and junk runs from farm sheds that haven't been opened since the milk quota days.