Mikie Joy Archive

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Box 1: Archaeology

1.1 Archaeology Ireland Volume 28 No. 2 Issue 109 Autumn 2014 (available online at JSTOR)

1.2 Archaeology Ireland Volume 9 No.1 Issue 31 Spring 1995 (available online at JSTOR)

1.3 Archaeology Ireland Volume 8 No. 1 Issue 27 Spring 1994 (available online at JSTOR)

1.4 Archaeology Ireland Subscription Form

1.5 The Archaeology of Mayo by Peadar O’Dowd pgs 36-49 – An article in ‘Mayo – Aspects of its
Heritage” edited by Bernard O’Hara

1.6 An unrecorded stone circle in North Tipperary by Jean Farrelly & Caimin O’Brien, TipperaryHistorical Journal 1997 Keywords: Coumroe, Barbaha

1.7 Hillfort Discoveries near Killaloe, Co. Clare Author(s): Tom Condit Source: Archaeology Ireland,Vol. 9, No. 1, The Bronze Age Issue (Spring, 1995), pp. 34-37https://www.jstor.org/stable/20562176 Keywords: Laghtea, Formoyle, Fert Fintan, Graves of the Leinstermen

1.8 Draft Letter regarding the erection of mobile phone mast at Kilparteen in 2006 (includes mention of souterrain between ring-forts in townland).

1.9.1.1 – 1.9.1.5 Survey of Field Names (Ormond Historical Society 1991) For some areas in Portroe

1.10.1.1 - 1.10.1.2 Project for the Collection of the names of Roads, Small Roads / Lanes / Bohereens/ Cross Roads / Hills / Rivers / Bidges / Streams / Mills (Oct 99) For some areas in Portroe (Maps not included)

1.11.1.1 – 1.11.1.22 OS Namebooks Townland Names and Meanings circa 1840s - Castletownarra 

1.12.1.1 – 1.12.1.6 O’Donovans Letters, Ordnance Suvery 1840 – The Parish of Castletown

1.13.1.1 Parlimentary Gazetteer 1845 pg 375 Castletown 

1.14.1.1 Parlimentary Gazetteer 1845 pg 88 Portroe 

1.15.1.1 Lewis’s “Topographical Dictonary of Ireland” 1837 – Castletown

1.16.1.1 The Graves of the Leinstermen

1.17.1.1 – Note on Slieveen – Hand-written

1.18.1.1 – 1.18.1.4 Housing Placenames in Owney & Arra

1.19.1.1 -1.19.1.2 Ring-forts in Portroe

1.20.1 – Field names in Portroe

1.21.1 – Townland Survey – A Guide – Ormond HistoricalSociety

1.22.1 – 1.22-4 Pages from Archaeological Inventory of North Tipperary pgs 236. 283, 284, 285 (available in library)

1.23.1 Little known placenames in Castletown area

1.24.1 Placenames on Cloneybrien Road 

1.25.1 - 1.25.49 Field Names Notebook


Box 2: Historical Documents

2.1.1.1 – 2.1.1.6 Burgess Parish – History Lecture

2.1.2.1 – 2.1.2.3 Templederry

2.1.3.1 – 2.1.3.3 Games

2.1.4.1 – 2.1.4.2 The Fair of Nenagh

2.2.1 Pg 41 / 42 - Crawford, HenryS. “The Dolmens of Tipperary.” The Journal of the Royal Society ofAntiquaries of Ireland, vol. 40, no. 1, 1910, pp. 38–51. JSTOR,JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25514043.

2.2.2.1 – 2.2.2.2 Pg 510 & 511 History of the Ely O'Carroll territory, or ancient Ormond / Rev. John Gleeson ; introduction and bibliography by George Cunningham Gleeson, John, 1855-1927.

2.2.3.1 Pg 88 A history of the diocese of Killaloe [vol. 1] : Part I; the early period / by Rev. Aubrey Gwynn, S.J. : Part II. to IV.; The Middle Ages by Dermot F. Gleeson Gwynn, Aubrey. Book | M.H. Gill | 1962

2.2.4.1 – 2.2.4.2 Pg 96 & 97 Churches in the Deanery of Ormond https://www.limericklocalstudiesdigital.ie/files/original/fc220582abcba016699cce02e2506b1e.pdf

2.3 Townland Index for Tipperary (North Riding) showing acreages, civil parishes, district electoral divisions and 6” Ordnance Survey Sheet(s) number, Nenagh District Heritage Society, 1989 (59pgs) – Not scanned – similar information available at https://www.townlands.ie/

2.4 The Public Record – Sources for Local Studies in the Public Record Office of Ireland. Compiled by S.J Connolly, Public Record Office of Ireland, Published by the Co-ordinating Committee for Educational Services Based on the Institutions of Science and Art. (Copyright 1982). Printed by Reprint Ltd (Available by request via Tipperary Libraries).

2.5.1 – 2.5.2 Books on Local History & Manuscript Sources (Handwritten List of titles)

2.6 Lectures Ormond Historical Society (1977 – 1992) (Handwritten List of titles)

2.7 Lectures Ormond Historical Society (1977 – 1986) (Handwritten List of titles, same as 2.6 except for last page)

2.8 Field Trips Ormond Historical Society (1977 – 1987)

2.9 Letter from Danny Grace to Michael Joy on Holy Wells in Arra & copies of information from OS field books

2.10 Copybook with handwritten information on Holy Wells in Arra – Youghalarra & Curraghtemple

2.11 Letter from P. Quigley to Con dated 11.10.1939 featuring history and folklore of the Ardcroney area

2.12 Tipperary Remembers Week-end May 18-20 1979 – Theme: The Land League Souvenir Programme

2.13 Killoran Community Centre 1970-2010

2.14 Pamphlet on The Bronze Age 3 pages (Not scanned)

2.15 Pamphlet for Portroe GAAC Club Golf Classic (2002) (Not scanned)

2.16 Hand written Notes on Diana Spenser (Princess) & the Sarsfield Connection

2.17 List of Rectors – St Ruadhans Church, Finnoe (Borrisokane)

2.18 Letter & Less of Manuscripts (Highlighted) in National Library? Relating to Parker Hutchinson Papers

2.19 Notes on the History of the R.I.C. (Typed, not sure of source).

2.20 The Great Famine in Ireland 1845 – 1848 (Typed, notsure of source).

2.21 Poster - £400 Reward for Ronan Maher (War of Independence?)

2.20 Tipperary North Family History Foundation Newsletter1996 (Duplicate number reference)

2.21 Preservation of the Peace in Rural Ireland 1601-1922 (Duplicate number reference)

2.22 Rebecca – The Story of the Moran Family (Ballinree, Ballymackey) – ‘SMA’ Easter 1988, The African Missionary

2.23 The Garda Archives / Musuem – Millenium Theme Catalogue of the contents of the Garda Musuem / Archives 1786-2000 (Typed, not sure of source).

2.24 Bunratty Folk Park Map (Date unknown)

2.25 What supports do you need to work together as an “Area of Interest”? What is the next step for this group?

2.26 Sophomore Bravado (photocopy of brief document on farm machinery from Ontario Agricultural College?

2.27 Menin Gate at Midnight by Will Longstaff (Note on a painting)

2.28 Talk on the parish of Castletownarra

2.29 Talk on the parish of Castletownarra (extended and typed recently) 48pgs

2.30 Cluain ui Bhriain: O’Brien’s Meadow

2.31 Schools in Castletownarra

2.32 Talk on Parish of Portroe on invitation of John & Noeleen Farwell in Newtown  

2.33 A Profile Sketch of The Parish of Castletown Arra (For the Video).

2.34 Notes on Castletown Arra for Slideshow

2.35 The Graves of the Leinster Men (Poem) – Nenagh Guardian 25-12-1971

2.36.1.1 – 2.36.1.8 Pg 491 - 511 -  History of the Ely O'Carroll territory, or ancient Ormond / Rev. John Gleeson ; introduction and bibliography by George Cunningham Gleeson,John, 1855-1927. 

2.37.1.1 – 2.37.1.6 Pg 49, 58, 63, 97, 98 & 99 -  History of the Ely O'Carroll territory, or ancient Ormond / Rev. John Gleeson ; introduction and bibliography by George Cunningham Gleeson, John, 1855-1927.  

2.38.1.1 – 2.38.1.6 Your Parish Map by Dermot F. Gleeson – Molua 1956 

2.39.1.1 – 2.39.1.6 A Day in Upper Ormond by Dermot F. Gleeson – Molua 1953 

2.40.1.1 – 2.40.1.9 The Diocese of Killaloe in the Past – Rev. John Clancy – Molua 1941 

2.41.1.1 Ormond Historical Society – Night of local song, Verse and Music 1994

2.42.1.1 – 2.42.1.17 Murder in Pound Street by Margaret O’Sullivan (MO’S to provide copy)

2.43.1.1 – 2.43.1.12 Figures from the Past – Two Nineteenth Century Headstones with Early Affinities – Siobhán de hÓir 

2.44.1.1 – 2.44.1.5 Section 3 – Owney & Arra Parishes (Source unclear) 

2.45.1.1 – 2.45.1.18 Parish of Castletown Arra - Slideshow

2.46.1.1 – 2.46.1.3 Portroe Church

2.47.1 Handwritten description of Arra from Parliamentary Gazetter 1845 & note from Arthur Young – A tour of Ireland 1777

2.48.1 List of slides maybe (outstanding)?

2.49.1.1 – 2.49.1.2 List of footnotes? to a lecture

2.50.1 Note on Derrycastle estate (handwritten) from A Guide to Irish Country Houses – Mark Bence-Jones

2.51.1.1 – 2.51.1.11 Handwritten version of some of the “Portroe lecture”. 

2.52.1 Des Coman Queries (hand-written)

2.53.1 Films M Joy – seems to relate to “Portroe lecture”.

2.54.1 Page from history book – Pound, Ezra – Pound, Roscoe – Pound

2.55.1.1 – 2.55.1.12 History of Portroe Lecture (Handwritten).

2.56.1.1 Garrykennedy (Handwritten).

2.57.1.1 Early history of Arra (Handwritten).

2.58.1.1 Welcome to Castletownarra (Handwritten).

2.59.1.1 Portroe Village (Handwritten)

2.60.1.1 Intro to talk on Castletownarra (Typed)

2.61.1.1 – 2.61.1.2 Parish of Castletownarra (Handwritten)

2.62.1.1 Hurling, Athletics etc (Handwritten)

2.63.1.1 Note on megalithic tomb (Handwritten)

2.64.1.1 Notes on O’Briens (Handwritten)

2.65.1.1 Castletown (Handwritten)

2.66.1.1 Taken from the back of the cemetery – relates to slideshow (Handwriten)

2.67.1.1 1800s note on living conditions (Handwritten)

2.68.1.1 – 2.68.1.4 Portroe Village (Handwritten)

2.69.1.1 – 2.69.1.4 Early draft of History of Portroe (Handwritten)

2.70.1.1 – 2.70.1.2 Early notes on History of Portroe (Handwritten)

2.71.1.1 – 2.71.1.1 Early notes on History of Portroe (Handwritten)

2.72.1.1 – 2.72.1.2 Early notes on History of Portroe (Handwritten)

2.73.1.1 Early notes on History of Portroe (Handwritten)

2.74.1.1 – 2.74.1.30 Early draft of History of Portroe (Handwritten In copybook).

2.75.1.1 Intro – Placenames (Handwritten)

2.76.1.1 Short note on Castletown (typed)

2.77.1.1 – 2.77.1.4 The Evolution of the Creameries Nire Valley and Knockmeal Creameries (Rosscarbery Journal?)

2.78.1.1 – 2.78.1.4 All Ireland is in and about Rathkeale – O’Connor (Extract from Journal?)

2.79.1.1 – 2.79.1.4 The Parish of Castletowne pgs 152-155  http://www.irishmanuscripts.ie/digital/The%20Civil%20Survey%201654%20Vol%20II%20Co%20Tipperary/

2.80.1.1 – 2.80.1.3 – Letter to Danny Grace regarding wording plaque on Garrykennedy Castle from Mikey Joy (Handwritten)

2.81.1.1 – 2.81.1.5 Contributions to a History of Castletownarra Parish by Una McLoughlin (seems to be from Cois Deirge)

2.82.1.1 – 2.82.1.7 List of Irish words arranged alphabetically in common use in the area in the 1940s and 50s 

2.83.1 – 2.83.3 Where the River Shannon Flows – National Geographic Magazine Nov. 1876 (JQ)

2.84.1 – 2.84.4 Castlelough Woods Walk & list of plants 

2.85.1 – 2.85.7 Talk on Castletownarra – possible duplicate

2.86.1 Townland map of section of North Tipp area

2.87.1 – 2.87.3 Down Survey map of section of Arra area

2.88.1 1840s OS map showing townlands around quarries in Portroe

2.89.1 – 2.89.10 Griffiths valuation maps (maybe) of area around quarries in Portroe

2.90.1 – 2.90.2 Map showing Castlelough House – maybe from Parker Papers?

2.91.1 – 2.91.3 Maps from Valuation Office of Castletown area

2.92.1 – 2.92.2 OS map 1840s of Castletown area

2.93.1 Townland map of Ballingeer

2.94.1 Map of Garrykennedy with note “The German Prince Herr Leiningen”.

2.95.1 – 2.95.5 Maps showing Castlelough House and areas around – maybe from Parker Papers

2.96.1 – 2.96.6 Griffiths valuation maps (maybe) of area around quarries in Portroe

2.97.1 – 2.97.4 National Folklore Commission Schools Manuscripts for Derrycastle School – now available online here https://www.duchas.ie/en/cbes/4922151

2.98.1 – 2.98.2 Chapters of Local History (old typed document on Nenagh)

2.99.1 – 2.99.2 Letter relating to Castletown Arra Protestant Church History from Ian Fraser to Mikey Joy

2.100.1 Pedigree of Mac I Briens – source not known

2.101.1 – 2.101.5 The Registry of Deeds – source not known

2.102.1 – 2.102.2 Castletown Arra & Map of Nenagh on back

2.103.1 History of Church in Portroe

2.104.1 Granting of fair status in Tipperary area

2.105.1 Gravestones in Castletown arra (Handwritten by Mikey Joy)

2.106.1 – 2.106.4 Record of game shot 1885 – 1936

2.107.1 – 2.107.4 Extract from book with some history on Lough Derg area

2.108.1 Commission of Public Instruction, Class I Rectories and Vicarages – Castletown Arra

2.109.1 Brief handwritten description of Castletownarra

2.110.1 Description of Gloshabriddane River / Stream

2.111.1 Copy of Orders for shrubs made in 1920 – 1930 for Castlelough

2.112.1 – 2.112.2 Register of Castletown – Arra 1849 – 1891

2.113.1 – 2.113.2 Churches – historical information on churches in Castletown Arra

2.114.1 Diocese of Killaloe – Class I. Rectories and Vicarages

2.115.1 Description of Borrisoleigh

2.116.1 – 2.116.2 List of sources

2.117.1 – 2.117.3 A Tour of Ireland – Arthur Young includinginformation about Derrycastle 152-157

2.118.1 – 2.118.2 Letter head of East Clare Heritage with some information on Sparings

2.119.1 A Tour of Ireland – Arthur Young pgs 448 – 449

2.120.1 County Final Day 1995

2.121.1 – 2.121.2 Information on Newcastle, Four Mile Water & The Nire Valley

2.122.1 – 2.122.2 Killoran School (Hand-written)

2.123.1 The Mass-rock

2.124.1 Note on quarries

2.125.1 – 2.125.12 Portroe Year Book

2.126.1 – 2.126.2 Outline of headings of History of Castletownarra book put together by Nancy Murphy for Mikey Joy

2.127.1 – 2.127.10 Correspondance relating to CastletownGraveyard Committee including Certificates of Achievement

2.128.1 List of topics for talk

2.129.1 Notes on history of church in Portroe

2.130.1 – 2.130.8 More history on Owney & Arra (Handwritten) 

Box 3: Tracing (Genealogy)

3.1.1 Handwritten Note mentioning Connells – See 1.17.1.1

3.2.1.1 – 3.2.1.27 Going of Munster by Rev. C.C. Ellison –Irish Ancestor 1977

3.3.1.1 – 3.3.1.10 The Watson Family (From book sourceunclear).

3.4.1.1 – 3.4.1.18 The O’Brien Family (From book sourceunclear).

3.5.1.1 – 3.5.1.12 – Census returns from Curragh 1911 –Mainly Quinn

3.6.1.1 – 3.6.1.11 – Census print-outs for Curragh 1911 –Quinn, Joy, Keogh, Gleeson, Fox

3.7.1.1 – 3.7.1.5 Houses in Portroe (Occupants Typed)

3.8.1.1 – 3.8.1.9 Houses in Portroe (Occupants Hand-written)

3.9.1.1 – 3.9.1.10 Tithe Appointment records forCastletownarra

3.10.1.1 – 3.10.10 Census returns 1901 – Misc – Corbally,Townlough

3.11.1 – 3.11.4 – Extracts from Griffiths Valuation forCastletown area

3.12.1 Birth Cert of Edward Dywer 1900 

3.13.1 Death Cert Margaret O’Dywer 1927

3.14.1 Death Cert Patrick Dywer 1930 

3.15.1 – 3.15.44 Misc Births, Deaths and Marriages fromCastletownarra area 

3.16.1 – 3.16.17 Misc Births, Deaths and Marriages from Castletownarra area (Double-sided pgs) relates to 3.15


3.17.1 – 3.17.4 Census Forms 1901 Coolbaun relating to Dywer, Mara, Ryan, McNamara, O’Brien, Quigley



3.18.1 – 3.18.2 - Burkes Landed Gentry Entry – Parkers of Castlelough 


3.19.1 – 3.19.12 Copy book with Folio numbers related to theParker Hutchinson Papers in the National Library of Ireland


3.20.1 Coming of age of Mr S O’G J Parker – Nenagh Guardian 1891


3.21.1 Misc Genealogy (Individual notes on various families in the area, needs to be sorted further)

Box 5: Slate Quarries

5.1.1 Explanations to accompany sheet134 of the map of the Geological Survey of Ireland, illustrating parts of thecounties of Clare, Tipperary and Limerick – pgs 24, 25, 26, 27, 36, 42, 43, 46

http://geologicalmaps.net/IrishHistMapsDownload/B02079.pdf

5.2.1 Bedrock Geology of Tipperary 17-21 (Not sure of source)                                      

5.3.1.1 – 5.3.1 – What effect did the closure of the Killaloe Slate Mining Co. in 1956 have on the localpopulation in Portroe County Tipperary in the period 1951 – 1961 (ResearchProposal Only)

5.4.1.1 – 5.4.1.10 Talk on theSlate Quarries by Mikey Joy (Handwritten) 

5.5.1.1 – 5.5.1.5 Trouble at theSlate Quarries, Killaloe, 1825 – 1845 (Author not known)

5.6.1.1 – 5.6.1.4 Killaloe SlateCompany and the West Cork Connection by Michael Joy (In Rosscarbery Past andPresent Vol 9).

5.7.1.1 – 5.7.1.8 Combination,conflict and control: colliers and quarrymen in Tipperary, 1825-45 by DesCowman (Saothar 26)

5.8.1.1 – 5.8.1.3 Killaloe(Portroe) Slate Quarries Ltd. Collection of Documents dated 1924-5 to 1941& 1949-59 – Presented to NDHS by Michael Joy

5.9.1.1 – 5.9.18 – The SlateQuarries at Killaloe 1825- c1845 (From a Journal, not known)

5.10.1.1 – 5.10.1.6 The SlateQuarries (Typed - Mikey Joy)

5.11.1.1 – 5.11.1.4 KillaloeSlate Quarry Company Ltd – Directors’ Report for year ending 30thSeptember 1928, 1930, 1931, 1932

5.12.1.1 – 5.12.1.4 Interviewwith Mr. Bill Fitzgerald, Tyone, Nenagh (He is retired Manager of the SlateQuarries, Portroe.)

5.13.1.1 – 5.13.1.5 Extract ofJournal looking at different types of engines associated with mining works –seems to have been posted to Mikey by Andrew Wilson from UK.

5.14.1.1 – 5.14.1.8 The SlateQuarries at Killaloe 1825- c1845 Early draft (From a Journal, not known)

5.15.1 A Welsh Quarryman in County Tipperary: Further Light on Griffith Parry by David Gwynn https://www.limericklocalstudiesdigital.ie/files/original/f2bb8bc95654f204031e616a8ed46aba.pdf

5.16.1 A Welsh Quarryman’s Grave at Castletown Arra, Co. Tipperary https://localstudies.limerick.ie/media/NMAJ%20vol%2030%2006%20A%20Welsh%20quarrymans%20grave%20at%20Castletown%20Arra,%20Co.%20Tipperary,%20by%20Siobh%a0%20de%20hOir.pdf

5.17.1.1 – 5.17.1.7 The Portroe Slate Quarries (Handwrittenby Mikey Joy)

5.18.1.1 – 5.18.1.3 Killaloe Slate Quarries (From book orJournal – source unknown)

5.19.1.1 – 5.19.1.3 Slate Quarries talk? (May be part of 5.10.1.)
Back of 5.19.1.1 
Back of 5.19.1.2 

5.20.1.1 –5.20.1.4 Irish Geology Week Tour – The Geology of the Arra Mountain – SlieveBernagh 

5.21.1.1 –5.21.1.10 Correspondence with Des Cowman re Trouble at the SlateQuarries 1826-1845

5.22.1.1 –5.22.1.3  Men from Castletown District Electrol Division Employed in theQuarries in 1901

5.23.1.1 Members of the Quarry Fife and Drum Band

5.24.1.1 Rulesand Regulations of the Curragh Bally Association

5.25.1.1 Slatesfor Sale

5.26.1.1Portroe Quarries – awarded the gold medal at the Belfast Exhibition 1895

5.27.1.1 Killaloe Slate Quarry from Scientific Proceedings of Royal Dublin Society

5.28.1.1 Killaloe Slate by Gordon Daly – Sliabh Aughty 2000 (Available via Tipperary Libraries)

5.29.1.1 Photo of Slate Quarrying – Will’s Cigarettes – Plus original card

5.30.1.1 Killaloe Slate Quarry Company Directors Report 1928

5.31.1.1 Titles, Sizes and Prices of Killaloe Slate about 1861

5.32.1.1 Receipt for Killoran Co-Op 1958 monies received from Thomas Toohey

5.33.1.1 Letter from Dafydd Roberts to Mikey Joy 1991 about Welsh graves in Castletownarra

5.34.1.1 Letter from Andrew Wilson to Mikey Joy 1999 regarding locomotives

5.35.1.1 The Slate Quarries – Portroe – brief history

5.36.1.1 – 5.36.1.2 Issue of shares in Slate Quarries as reported in Nenagh Guardian 1864

5.37.1.1 A Liberal Company – letter from Wm. B. Smithwick to the Editor in Nenagh Guardian 1864

5.38.1.1 Meeting of the shareholders of Killaloe Slate Company in Nenagh Guardian 1880

5.39.1.1 – 5.39.1.2 Contour map of the “Blue Hole”

5.40.1.1 Letter to Editor Nenagh Guardian from W.B Smithwick regarding share performance of Slate Quarries 1872

5.41.1.1 Pricelist of slates in Nenagh Guardian 1881

5.42.1.1 Reports on Slate Quarries from Newspapers from 1845 – 1895

5.43.1.1 Small Photos – Round the Quarry & stamps from the quarry

5.44.1.1 Letter from Gordon Daly to Mikey Joy regarding Sliabh Aughty article

5.45.1.1 –5.45.1.10 Letter from Francis of Rosscarbery Historical Society includingvarious documents on history and mining in Rosscarbery

5.55.1.1 – 5.55.14 Nenagh Assizes 5^th Aug 1843 – A Whiteboy Offence – John Seymour, Michael Seymour, Dan Cuddihy & John Carroll 

5.56.1 Letter relating to transportation of Dan Cuddihy to Tasmania 

5.57.1 – 5.57.2 Letter relating to Whiteboy Offence signed by figures in Arra area (Typed) 

5.58.1 – 5.58.2 Letter relating to Whiteboy Offence signed by John Seymour, Mick Seymour and Daniel Cuddihy 

5.59.1 – 5.59.2 Letter relating to Whiteboy Offence signed by William Collett 

5.60.1 – 5.50.2 Members of Quarry Fife and Drum Band – Typed (By Michael Joy)

5.61.1 – 5.61.2 General information on Slate Quarries in Portroe 

Box 7 – Schools

7.1.1.1 – 7.1.1.6 The School at Killoran by Michael Joy(Typed)

7.2.1 Killoran school draft (hand-written)

7.3.1 Girls for Confirmation 1941

7.4.1 – 7.4.2 Killoran Boys 1938

7.5.1 – 7.5.2 Killoran Girls 1938

7.6.1 – 7.6.2 Extract from “The Dublin Correspondent”Saturday, Feb 5, 1825

7.7.1 – 7.7.7 Schooling in the parish of Castletown Arra

7.8.1 Letter from Public Record Office of Ireland regardingrequest for register of Corbally National School

7.9.1 Letter from Public Record Office of Ireland regardingrequest national schools in Corbally

7.10.1 General information relating to Public Record Office

7.11.1 Schools of Killaloe Diocese – extract from newspaper(no date)

7.12.1 – 7.12.5 Extracts from: The Catholic Restoration (Howthe educational ruin of the penal days was repaired) by P.F. Donovan. M.A

7.13.1 – 7.13.3 Corbally National School teacher registerfor 1857, 1858, 1859

7.14.1 – 7.14.2 Correspondence record for Corbally NationalSchool 1859

7.15.1 Note about Roche Williams “In and out of School”pages 29-67

7.16.1 – 7.14.3 Correspondence board records Corbally school(maybe 1880s)

7.17.1 – 7.17.20 – Photos for 7.1.1.1 Schools in Killoran

7.18.1 Junior History of Ireland Part 1 – 1933

7.19.1 Junior History of Ireland Part 2 – 1933

7.20.1  Irish School Geography by Elenor Butler M.A

Box 9: Graveyard Books
9.1.1.1 - 9.1.1.5 Burials in Castletown Graveyard 1949 - 1983

9.2 Index to OHS Burials in Box - Now Available online at 

http://tipperarystudies.ie/digitisation-project/gravestone-inscriptions/

Box 11: Songs and Poems

11.1.1.1 – 11.1.1.8 The Limerick Anthonolgy – Editor JimKemmy – Mikey Raleigh’s Band, The Colleen Bawn, Limerick You’re a Lady, TheLimerick Rake, The Galbally Farmer, There is an Isle
11.2.1.1 – 11.2.1.2 Knockshegowna Hill
11.3.1.1 – 11.3.1.2 The Shelbourne Hotel
11.4.1.1 – 11.4.1.2 Writer T.Connors
11.5.1.1 – 11.5.1.2 Sopwell hall
11.6.1.1 – 11.6.1.2 The Cattle Drive
11.7.1.1 – 11.7.1.2 Emigrant
11.8.1.1 – 11.8.1.2 Martin Donoghue’s Pigs
11.9.1.1 Unknown title
11.10.1.1 – 11.10.1.2 Hunting Song
11.11.1 Kilcommon
11.12.1 Lacka Hills
11.13.1.1 – 11.13.1.2 Unknown title
11.14.1.1 – 11.14.1.2 Spout Road
11.15.1.1 Jim Kennedy’s Dance
11.16.1.1 The Resting Place
11.17.1.1 Hurrah for Toomevara
11.18.1.1 – 11.18.1.2 The Galbally Farmer
11.19.1 Jamesy and the Fair
11.20.1 Williams’s Hotel, Cloughjordan & The WaterSupply
11.21.1 Duharra’s ‘Bonny Doon’
11.22.1 Unknown title
11.23.1 A Shamrock From Shinrone
11.24.1 The Quarry Boys
11.25.1 The Village of Portroe
11.26.1 The Quarry Boys (Handwritten)
11.27.1.1 – 11.27.1.2 The Quarry Boys (Handwritten)
11.28.1 The Quarry Boys
11.29.1.1 – 11.29.1.2 The Village of Portroe (Handwritten)
11.30.1 To a Lonely Maiden
11.31.1 Joseph MacDonagh
11.32.1.1 – 11.32.1.2 The Ballinahinch Creamery
11.33.1 Templederry My Home
11.34.1 My Youth in Tipperary
11.35.1 The Dance at Finnoe
11.36.1.1 – 11.36.1.2 The Porter Song
11.37.1.1 – 11.37.1.2 The Ass and Cart
11.38.1.1 The Cranna Creamery
11.39.1.1 – 11.39.1.3 Old Man Mike
11.40.1 – 11.40.9 – Our place in Song, 11 Dec 2001, OrmondHistorical Society and Nenagh Singers’ Circle
11.41.1 Night of local song, verse and music – OrmondHistorical Society
11.42.1 – 11.42.7 Words presenting some of the songs forabove (Mikey Joy handwritten)
11.43.1 – 11.43.5 Ballinahinch Creamery (Handwritten)
11.44.1 Jim Kenny from Portroe
11.45.1 – 11.45.2 The Raiding of the Vault
11.46.1 – Quarry Boys (Handwritten)
11.47.1 – Poem – Untitled
11.48.1 – Snippet from Ballad of Ormond Fair
11.49.1 – The Dance at Finnoe by Dike Nealon & A SingleLife by Dike Nealon 
11.50.1 – A Ballad of Ormond Fair
11.51.1 – The Fair at Foxford
11.52.1 – A Fair Day
11.53.1 – Paddy Smithwick

Misc
Photos of slides for Castletown Arra Talk

Corbally School Register (Girls) 1874 - 1904

Corbally School Roll Book 1896 - 1901

Corbally School Roll Book 1901 - 1912

Corbally School Register Copybook 1863 - 1903 & Misc on Churches in Arra area

Postcards

Postcard 1
Postcard 2
Postcard 3
Postcard 4
Postcard 5
Postcard 6
Postcard 7
Postcard 8
Postcard 9
Postcard 10
Postcard 11
Postcard 12
Postcard 13
Postcard 14

An Album of Motorcars 

Portroe Parish Newsletter Christmas 1960