Tipperary Studies local history archive is a big hit with internet users around the world

The Tipperary Studies website showcasing a treasure trove of historical documents and images associated with the county, has attracted 2.6million hits since its launch four and half year ago.

The success of the website of the county’s local history service was highlighted by County Librarian Damien Dullaghan at Carrick-on-Suir Municipal District’s monthly meeting in Carrick-on-Suir Town Hall last Thursday.

The website set up in August, 2020 is an online repository of a large archive of digitised documents, photographs, images and videos relating to cultural, social, economic and sporting events and organisations throughout the county.

Mr Dullaghan informed Carrick MD councillors the Tipperary Studies website exceeded 2.6m hits in February and was on course to go over 3m hits by the summer.

He said a collection of Carrick Swan GAA Club match programmes were among the digitised archive documents that can be viewed on the website.

Mr Dullaghan described the Tipperary Studies online archive as a tremendous resource and told The Nationalist after the meeting the Library Service has put a lot of resources into digitising its archival material to make it available to the public through the website.

Before the website, people wishing to look up Tipperary Studies records had to travel to The Source in Thurles to view them, now they can access them by just turning on their computer at home.

The UK, United States and Australia the most popular locations of the website’s visitors outside of Ireland followed by Singapore, Canada, France, New Zealand, Spain and Germany.

Mr Dullaghan said Tipperary Studies’ archive is derived from public donations and auction purchases.

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Carrick Swan Club isn’t the only Carrick organisation to donate material to the county archive.

You can also check out on the Tipperary Studies website, Carrick-on-Suir Lions Club documents and photographs, images of Carrick-on-Suir Macra na Feirme events from 1947 to 1997, Carrick-on-Suir Musical Society brochures and show programmes from 1944 to 2023, a collection of South Tipperary Senior Hurling final match programmes and a collection of posters from the 1930s of sporting and social events, auctions and marketing for local businesses in the Carrick-on-Suir, Piltown and Portlaw areas.

Carrick MD Cathaoirleach Cllr Mark Fitzgerald told last week’s district meeting he could see himself losing an hour or two to looking up the Tipperary Studies website, which he described as an “amazing service”.