Tipperary Archive

Welcome to Tipperary Studies.
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.

Browse Items (14 total)

Quinn prints_006.jpg
Black and white image of a threshing mill being operated by a steam engine at Quinn's of Ballypatrick. Co. Tipperary. Early 20th century

Ossie Bennet antique steam engine. 1975
Colour image of Osmond Bennet and sons antique steam engine being taken off a low loader truck. 1975

Boy with bale of straw on a trolley 1975.jpg
Colour image of a boy pushing a bale of straw on a trolley through the village. 1976

Driving the old engine 1975.jpg
Colour image of two men driving the old threshing engine 1975

Mill and straw bales 1975
Colour image of an old steam driven mill and straw bales at old style threshing event. 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

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

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