Tipperary Archive

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Fr Philip Fogarty _037.jpg
Black and white image of an old graveyard and ivy covered ruins at Thomastown, Co. Tipperary. Mid 20th century.

Fr Philip Fogarty _026.jpg
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…

Fr Philip Fogarty _024.jpg
Black and white image of an ruined tower house in a motte and bailey very overgrown. Gortkelly, Co. Tipperary

Fr Philip Fogarty _022.jpg
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

Fr Philip Fogarty _006.jpg
Black and white image of Knocka Castle near Templemore, Co. Tipperary. The round keep still stands but the ruins of the great house on the left were demolished in the mid 20th century.

178F Self at old ruined gateway at Golden Hills, 8 Aug 1928.jpg
Black and white image derived from negatives of Edmund Murphy standing by the ruined gateway at Golden Hills House near Cashel. 8 August 1928

178E Golden Hills House (ruins) near Golden, 8 Aug 1928.jpg
Black and white image derived from negatives of the ruins of Golden Hills House near Golden Co. Tipperary. Once the residence of Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald, High Sherriff of Tipperary in 1798. Owned by Henry White in 1814 and in Griffiths valuation. It…

178D Golden Hills House (ruins) near Golden, 8 Aug 1928.jpg
Black and white image derived from negatives of the ruins of Golden Hills House near Golden Co. Tipperary. Once the residence of Thomas Judkin Fitzgerald, High Sherriff of Tipperary in 1798. Owned by Henry White in 1814 and in Griffiths valuation. It…

169E Mardyke Colliery, near Killenaule 21 Aug 1926.jpg
Black and white photographic image of of old colliery buildings at Mardyke near Killenaule. Mardyke was part of the Slieveardagh mining operations for coal which operated from the 17th century at first on a small scale and from 1826 by the Mining…

151F South wall of refectory, Athassel Abbey, 3 Oct 1924.jpg
Black and white image of the ruins of the South wall of the refectory at Athassel Abbey. Athassel was built for the Augustianians in the 12th century by William De Burgo and is the largest medieval priory in Ireland. The Abbey was burnt twice and the…
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