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Cashel Indoor Register now online

We have added the Cashel indoor registers for Dec 1847 to July '48 to the website https://tipperarystudies.ie/workhouse-registers/ … Chilling to think that in those seven months at the height of the famine the numbers admitted, 4,840, exceed the 2016 population of…

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One armed Tennis and other Tipperary sports

Our Murphy Ballinamona collection has some great photos of sports from the beginning of the 19th Century. Horse racing, hockey, croquet and one armed tennis to name a few. Take a look at the images in our digital archive https://tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project/

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Cloughjordan Heritage Volume X

Cloughjordan Heritage Volume X will be launched on Friday 7th December at 8.00pm in the MacDonagh Museum in Cloughjordan. The book will be launched by Fr.Sean Dwan from Kilruane. Items featured in the book include: : the Families of Killurane…

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December Tipperary People and Places Lecture

The Death Census of 1847; Dr Brian Gurrin In the spring of 1847, with Famine raging in Ireland, Daniel O'Connell's Repeal Association organised a Death Census in parts of Ireland. Priests were requested to provide returns of the number of…

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Book launch in the Excel, Tipperary Town

Historian Noreen Higgins-McHugh will be launching her new book 'Tracing your Tipperary Ancestors' in the Excel Heritage center, Tipperary Town. Launch by Dr. Des Marnane at 7.30pm on Thursday 13th December.  

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An Evening of Sporting History

All are welcome to Bookworm this Friday evening 30 November at 7.30pm for a fascinating journey into our sporting heritage.Two authors, Paul Rouse and Pat Bracken who will be talking about their recent books which have been hugely acclaimed and…

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