museums tipperary

The Thurles Famine Museum offers an insight into the Great Famine (from 1845 to 1849) and its impact on the area....

Cashel Folk village is a delightful series of informal reconstructions of various traditional thatched village shops, a forge and other businesses, together with a penal chapel situated in a confined area within the town of Cashel, near to the famed Rock of Cashel.

An extensive display of signs and other commercial memorabilia add to the appeal of this pleasant display of local history....

Lar na Pairce, Thurles is a new and exciting Visitor Centre which illustrates the history and development of Gaelic Games from earliest times....

The museum is housed in the former railway station, near the historic town walls. It specialises in transport items but also contains thousands of exhibits from folk and farm life. The grounds include a cafe, picnic facilities, toilets, provision for the disabled, a well equipped playground and ample free parking.

Every Sunday throughout the year there is a collectors market and car boot sale, where one can find anything from a needle to an anchor on offer....

The County Museum, Clonmel has displays showing the history of Tipperary South Riding from prehistoric to modern times. The Museum, one of eight professionally-based County Museums in the Country, prides itself on its links with the community and the care of its collection.
The collection includes artefacts from; social history, religion, sports, archaeoolgy and lots more....