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 graveyard for the Spiritian community of Rockwell College, Co. Tipperary. Rockwell College is run by the Spiritans, also known as The Holy Ghost Fathers and the cemetery in the grounds of the school is for the priests of…

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Black and white image of an ivy covered ruined church surrounded by a wall at Barnane old graveyard . A tall obleisk style monument visible behing pine trees. This was the graveyard used by the Carden family of Barnane Castle. Mid 20th century

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Black and white image of a ringfort, Rath Ordán near Cashel, Co. Tipperary

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Black and white image of the front façade of the ruined Thomastown Castle. This was the home of the Mathew family of Thomastown and Thurles. The first 17th century house was built by George Mathew c.1670. The 2nd Earl of Landaff, Francis Matthew…

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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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