Tipperary Archive

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Black and white image of railway line running beside a barn. Unknown Tipperary location. Mid 20th century

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Black and white image of tombstones and ruins of an old church in Two-mile-Borris. The church and graveyard are located close to a tower house and may date to a similar time. Very little of the church remains today. Mid 20th century.

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Black and white image of the derelict Gortkelly Castle in the mid 20th Century. This was originally a country house built around 1800 with a later Gothic façade added around 1830. The house was the home of the Ryan family. The house roof was removed…

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Black and white image of a circular enclosure in Deerpark, Cashel, Co. Tipperary

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Black and white image of the lowere part of one wall of a ruined castle at Rorardstown Upper, Drom, Co. Tipperary. Listed as a Purcell castle in 1640 and as ruined by the Civil Survey 1656. Mid 20th century

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Black and white image of the village of Two-Mile-Borris, Co. Tipperary from the fields. Mid 20th century

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Black and white image of an ruined tower house in a motte and bailey very overgrown. Gortkelly, Co. Tipperary

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Black and white image of the now disused Protestant Church in Holycross. The church was built in 1821 on the site of an earlier medieval church. The graveyard attached to the church is the oldest in the parish going back to the 12th century. The…

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Black and white image of the ruins of Kilcooley Abbey. The abbey dates from 1182 and was a Cistercian foundation. It became a Butler posession after the reformation and then passed to Alexanders in the 1630s and by marriage to Barkers. Mid 20th…

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Black and white image of a circular stone wall around a slated stone building. There is a view to a tower house across fields. There are a number of recorded ringforts and earthen enclosures in this townland. Ballyknock, Cashel, Co. Tipperary
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