Researching Offaly
A resource for researching Offaly and the surrounding areas
Archives
The archives contain material from the county’s landed estates, solicitors’ firms, industries and private individuals
Before / After Offaly
Depicts various places around Offaly via archive images and recreates those images in contemporary times
Audio Sources
(SoundCloud)
Our page on Soundcloud has Lectures, presentations and Interviews from around Offaly.
- 45 The landscape of east Offaly: Croghan Hill and Clonsast. Frank Mitchell describes the landscape of east Offaly taking in Croghan Hill and...
Frank Mitchell (1912–97) was a distinguished but unassuming academic, environmental historian, archaeologist and geologist. While he had many academic writings his best known book was The Irish Landscape (1976) about which he was typically modest. In 1990 Mitchell published ‘a semi-autobiography’ The way that I followed. The title was a play on Robert Lloyd Praeger’s, … Continue reading […]
- AN AWKWARD SITE- The Building and Rebuilding of the Church of the Assumption of Our Blessed Lady, Tullamore. By Fergal MacCabe
A New Church Towards the end of the 19th century the 1840 Mercy Convent with its frontage to the landscaped banks of the Grand Canal, was the most prominent symbol of the increasing importance of the Catholic Church in the spiritual life of the people of Tullamore. In contrast, the almost one hundred year old … Continue reading AN AWKWARD SITE- The Building and Rebuilding of the Church of the […]