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Places To Visit For Free In Co Tipperary

Templemore Park Fairy Trail, Templemore, Thurles, Co Tipperary

With the exceptional fine weather being enjoyed around Tipperary and forecast for the next week, the Hidden Tipperary Tourism Group are pleased to point out that on the first Wednesday of every month all Office of Public Works (OPW) managed Heritage Sites, here in Co […]

Irelands Festival Of Gaelic Sport Begins In Thurles Next Weekend

The Thurles Sarsfields International Festival of Gaelic Sport gets under way next weekend, beginning 4th – 12th July, inclusive.

The former 2012 European Town of Sport, will showcase the very best Ireland has to offer as a sports, tourism and shopping destination to the thousands of visitors expected to descend on Thurles, “The Home […]

Tipperary – Two Degrees Of Separation From Adolf Hitler

The Shelbourne Hotel on the north side of St Stephen’s Green in Dublin was first established in 1824 by a Tipperary man, aged in his 40’s, named Martin Burke. Almost nothing is known about Martin Burke’s early history; we do know however that he was a Tipperary man, born about 1788, a practising Catholic by […]

Tipperary Under Invasion By White-Toothed Shrews

A new invasive species of Shrew is spreading across our Tipperary landscape at a rate of more than five kilometres a year, according to new research.

The Greater White-toothed Shrew (Crocidura russula) was first discovered living on our Irish shores in around 2007, first spotted in the regurgitated food remains (pellets) from Barn Owls and […]

Thurles Rare Famine Relief Book 1847 On Public Display

The recently discovered ‘Gratuitous Relief Ration Record Book,’ (or the ‘Distribution Book,’ as it was also called,) for the electoral divisions of Holycross, Thurles and Ballycahill in 1847, has now been digitized, allowing an instant search facility for those anxious to trace their family roots.

This book contains the names of those who were classed […]