Monthly Archives: July 2018

Interested in your family history, want to check out your DNA? head along to the http://www.thegenealogyevent.com between August 30th and September 1st at the Woodlands House Hotel in Adare    

Pat and Donal have been working away on the digitisation project and we're delighted to add the Cunningham collection of North Tipperary trade ephemera to our digital archive. Donated with kind generosity by Dr George Cunningham, Roscrea.  We have a…

Sorting through GAA match programmes this morning. Some familiar faces in this 1993 Munster football final programme. See some of our collection of programmes online at https://tipperarystudies.ie/ or drop in to us at the Source Library  

O'Donovan seems put out by the corruption of a parish name. Check out the spelling of Soloheadbeg..poor man must be turning in his grave

Some of the Armstrong family gravestone inscriptions from Ballycahill Graveyard. For more inscriptions visit https://tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project/gravestone-inscriptions/ … or drop in to us in The Source.

Died 17th July 1918, Christopher Keogh; one of thousands of Tipperary men to die in the WW1. https://tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project/tom-burnells-tipperary-war-graves-database/    

Lovely photos of a group making hay 100 years ago. From our Murphy Ballinamona digitised collection.

Gravestone inscriptions can be invaluable sources for genealogists; sometimes they pose more questions than answers..Who were John Ryans 8 children? did they all die in the same year? check out our digitised records here https://tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project/gravestone-inscriptions/

Some of the list of items required for girls emigrating to Australia in 1849 from Clogheen Workhouse under the Earl Grey scheme. From the workhouse minutes in our archives

Purely for the archaic language and hilarious reporting of historical events. Someone was obviously taking notes during this assembly in 1294 where Lord Justice Vescy and John Fitzgerald baron Offaly traded insults because Holinshed was able to report the conversation…