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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Reaping with tractor and old machine.jpg
Colour image of Jim Cormack and John Flanagan, Galbertstown, operating an old reaping machine in an oat field, Newtown Co. Tipperary

Reaping near Holycross.jpg
Colour image of a reaping team of Jim Cormack and John Flanagan cutting oats in a field near Holycross. October 1975

Ozzie Bennet engine 1975.jpg
Colour image of Osmond Bennett & Sons Ltd., steam engine passing Holycross parish church, October 1975

Osmond Bennet engine in front of Abbey 1975.jpg
Colour image of Osmond Bennett & Sons Ltd., steam engine in front of Holycross Abbey for the old time threshing. 1975

Operating the vintage milling machine 1975
Harry Langley and Patrick Flanagan operating the vintage baling machine at the old time threshing. 1975

Old time reaping_tea time.jpg
Colour image of reapers having a tea break.
L to R, Jim Cormack, Michael Flanagan, Jim Butler? and Gerry Spillane having a tea break at the old time reaping. Holycross. 1975

Jim Cormack on the reaper
Colour image of old time reaping at Newtown, Holycross. Jim Cormack of Galbertstown is operating the reaper. October 1975

Old time reaping at John Butler's farm
Colour image of a man and boy stooking the sheaves at an old time reaping in Holycross. October 1975

Old engines at threshing 1975.jpg
Colour image of an antique tractor and miller at an old style threshing event in Holycross 1975

Antique steam engine and marquee
Colour image of an antique tractor outside the marquee where the threshing dance was held at the old style threshing event 1975
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