With schools reopening shortly why not take a look at alternate types of education in Tipperary over four centuries. Read about the history of some notable Tipperary schools such as the Clonmel Grammar School. Listen to the podcast on the…
I've heard that Bridge castle (Barry's castle) in Thurles was built by the Knights Templars but Archdall's Monasticon Hibernicum credits the knights of St. John. Either version is just a tradition. There are no accurate dates for the construction of…
Documents from the Irish Land War. The Earl of Normanton, residing in Hampshire, England, owned over 7,600 acres in Tipperary. His agent E.S. Rice paid the Property Defense Association for bailiffs to help carry out sales and evictions from the…
We hold a small collection of local interest private acts of parliament ranging from 1695 to 1905. An individual (wealthy, influential & male) who wanted to undo some family arrangement about property or who wanted a divorce for example, had to finance…
Knocking of the Old Workhouse or County Home Thurles 2004. The original workhouse was built in 1841-42 on the introduction of the poor law . The design was by the poor law commissioner's architect George Wilkinson and could accommodate 700 inmates. It…
A page from the Illustrated London News in 1867 from the archives. A different take on the term 'flying column' compared to the War of Independence fifty years later.
Have you ever wondered about William Vincent Wallace, who lived in the house adjacent to the parish office in Thurles, the building now occupied by the florist, ‘Annie Blooms’? Celebrated Irish composer William Vincent Wallace (1812–1865) also lived for some…
Lackeen Castle near Lorrha in Tipperary is a late medieval tower house which belonged to Brian Ua Cinneide Fionn, chieftan of Ormond, who died in 1588. It wasn’t until 1735 that the Stowe Missal which the O’Kennedys had hidden here…
Remember those summer days getting the turf in..I know its probably going to be banned and we might see the last generation to spend summer on the bog, but there was a time (1943) when getting the turf in was…
Tipperary Studies holds copies of some of Tipperary’s earliest maps, dating from the 17th Century, through to the OSI’s modern maps of the 21st Century. One of my favorites is this little gem of the area around Thurles in 1755. So impressed was…