Tipperary library services to digitise famine records
Video Journalist A project is under way by Tipperary County Council's Library Services to digitise hundreds of pages of material from the Poor Law Union Minute Books from the Famine period held by the authority. The library holds a vast collection of Poor Law Union Minute Books, Rate Books and Workhouse Registers encompassing nearly the entire county. Since January, and with the limited number of people in the Library due to Covid-19 restrictions the material is being digitised in Thurles. The books provide an account of the numbers of people entering the workhouses - either men, women or chi...
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