Tipperary Archive

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Home of local studies research for Tipperary County Council Library Service.

The Local Studies Department is the primary resource for local history research in County Tipperary for historians and enthusiasts. It has a dedicated reading room with modern research facilities.

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Black and white image of a view through an arch to a tracery window in the ruined Kilcooley Abbey, Co. Tipperary. This is a Cistercian abbey near the village of Gortnahoe. This abbey dates from 1182 when Donal Mor O’Brien granted lands to the…

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Black and white image of Castlepark, built in the late 18th century for Richard Creagh. Alterations were done in the years before the famine. After the famine the estate was sold through the Encumbered Estates Court to William Scully who renamed it…

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Black and white image of the front façade and glass house of Kilshane House, Co. Tipperary. A two storey over basement country house designed by C. F. Anderson and built in the 1830s for John Lowe, later used as a novitiate and now in use as a hotel.…

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Black and white image of the gable and cutstone window of a ruined old church at Castlefogarty.

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Black and white image of a carved block of stone at Kilboy holy well. In an article describing the Holy Well in the JRSAI (1912) by Rev. Samuel Hemphill the stone is described as a depiction of the Pieta in limestone and that it was moved to the well…

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Black and white image of a ringfort at Garrynamona, Ballycahill, Co. Tipperary

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Black and white image of the ruined Dominican Friary at Lorrha. Founded in the 13th century by Walter de Burgh. The village was the site of an important early christian monastery founded in the 6th century by St. Ruadhan. Lorrha, Co. Tipperary

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Black and white image of the ruined 13th century church at Knockgraffon, Co. Tipperary

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Black and white image of an old church at Drom, Co. Tipperary

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Black and white image of the ruins of Ballycahill old church. This is an old church possibly 12th century. The parish was merged with Holycross in 1429.
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