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Touring Offaly
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 Offaly -- Úi Failghe (The Faithful County Coat of Arms)
 Introducing Offaly
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 The Heritage of Offaly
Reading Resources
Archaeology
 Forest Glass Furnaces in County Offaly
 Index of Archaeology
 A History of Offaly Through its Monuments
 The Dowris Treasure
 Castle Sites in Offaly
 Ancient Monuments of the Midlands
 Cadamstown's Archaeological Riches
 Notes on the Sculptured Slabs at Gallen Priory
 Clonmacnoise studies, volume 2, seminar papers 1998
 Excavations at Clonmacnois
 Revealing a Private Inscription
 The Earliest Plan at Clonmacnois
 The Very Earliest Plan at Clonmacnois
 St. Colmán and the Early Medieval Monastery of Lynally (c.600-1100)
Ordnance Survey Letters for Offaly in 1838
 Durrow (2)
 Durrow (1)
 Townland of Litter and Cadamstown
 Shinrone and District
 Extent of the Dioceses in King's County
 Stories of the Offaly Saints
 Dunkerrin District
 Kilcomon Old Church
 Ely O'Carroll
 The Genealogy of the O'Carrolls
 The Cantreds of Ely O'Carroll
 The Extent of Ely O'Carroll
 Rahan and Roscore
 Rathleen, Killoughey
 Ballybritt and Leap Castle - A Liar at Leap
 Placenames In Fear Ceall and Ballyboy
 Kinnitty Parish
 Kinnitty
 Kilcolman Church
 Offaly Placenames
 T.L. Cooke - "A Good Rogue and Sound Historian"
 Seir Kieran
 The Old Church at Drumcullen
 The Name Banagher
 John O'Donovan and T.L. Cooke
 John O'Molloy of Eglish - The Soogan Chief
 Banagher and Cloghan
 Rahan in Ancient Meath
 O'Molloy Chief killed by a beggar
 Fearcall - (From the Inquisitions). Castlegeshill, 23 Oct., 1612. (8 Jac I.).
 The Boundries of O'Molloy Country of Fear Ceall (2)
 The Boundries of O'Molloy Country of Fear Ceall (1)
 The Will of Sir John Coghlan
 The Castles of Mac Coughlan's Country
 Leamanaghan
 O'Dempsey's Country
 Hugh de Lacy's murder at Durrow in 1186
 Gallen and Clonony
 Lusmagh - The Plain of Herbs
 Clonmacnoise (5)
 Clonmacnoise (4)
 Clonmacnoise (3)
 Clonmacnoise (2)
 Clonmacnoise (1)
 Did A Gallogoly Kill Hugh De Lacy?
 Castles in West Offaly
 "A County of Bogs and Morasses"
 Durrow and Geashell - The English Authorities Attacked
 Kilbride (Clara), Ballyburley, Killclonfort and Ballycommon
  Ballycowan and Sragh Castles
 Tullamore River, Killurin and Ballintogher
 Croghan Hill
 Killoughy and the Hill of Croghan
 Treasure in Ballykillan
 Lynally and Rahan
 Eiscir Riada and the Edenderry District
 Ordnance Survey Letters for Offaly 1838
 Index of Ordnances Survey Letters
 The Battle of Moylena
 O'Molloy's Country of Fear Ceall
 The History of Killeigh
 4th Letter
 The Traditions of Clonsast
 The Territory of Ancient Offaly II
 The Territory of Ancient Offaly
History by Place
 Gallen and Kilreehan - two ancient Ferbane cemeteries
 Kinnitty - Notes on the emigration scheme from Kilconcouse, Kinnitty 1847-52
 Killyon and Thomastown
 Killeigh parish
 Killeigh Abbey
 Philipstown to Daingean - Down Through the Years
 Clonbullogue Parish From Historic Records
 Cloghan Castle, Lusmagh
 Clara parish
 Birr - Macregol's Gospels
 Birr, Bernard Shaw visited
 Kilcormac’s Hidden Treasure
 Birr's Century of Progress
 Kilcormac Missal
 Tullabeg (Rahan), 1818-1968
 Offaly in 1825, Brewer's description of
 Slieve Bloom - The Hills at the Heart of Ireland
 Geashill, Historic Barony of, in Old Offaly
 Philipstown (Daingean) - The Midland Boroughs in the 1830's
 Shinrone
 Clara - Goodbody Jute Works
 Banagher - The Midland Boroughs in the 1830's
 Ballycumber - The Strange Story Of The Glassy Pond
 Shannon Harbour
 Clonmacnois - Seven Churches
 Geashill - The Earl of Kildare's Manor
 Clara and Tullamore, Memoirs of Robert Goodbody
 Ferbane - The Story of Gallen Priory
 Banagher, Rape Mills
 Rahan and Lynally, the churches of
 Belmont, Perry's Mills - Manufacturing Industries
 Birr - Reminiscences and Letters of Sir Robert Ball
 Lemanaghan
 Daingean - Arthur O'Connor, M.P. for Philipstown
 Rahugh, Kilclonfert - The Shooting of Roger North
 Leap Castle, The burning of
 Birr - Sights and Scenes in our Fatherland - Thomas Lacy visits Birr in 1863
 Birr, County Offaly
 Durrow - Who Killed Lord Norbury?
 Banagher, County Offaly
 Kinnitty Castle and the Bernards
 Banagher Royal School
 Roscrea - Mount St. Joseph Monastery, It's Early History
 Banagher’s Literary Associations
 Banagher as a Corporate Town
 Banagher was founded Fourteen Centuries Ago
 Ballyboy and Killoughy parish, a general census 1826
 Edenderry - Monasteroris Parish, 1778-1978
 Ballyboy & Killoughy - General Census (1826)
 Birr, proposed State acquisition of 90 years ago - Alice Stopford Green - - her letter of February 1914
 Durrow, County Offaly
 Drumcullen near Kinnitty, The old church at
 Geashill in 1798
 Daingean - some unfriendly reports -- 1724-1846
 Daingean Reformatory Described
 Daingean Reformatory, sent to
 Clonmacnoise, Caesar Otway and Patron Day at
 Clara House
 Broughal Castle
 Parsonstown (Birr) Bridewell and Court House
 Bloomville House, Geashill, Co. Offaly
 Birr, sources for the history of
 Birr and the 1834 Poverty Inquiry
 Birr or Parsonstown
 Birr - The making of a model town
 Birr Castle, Childhood Glimpses at
 Kinnitty Castle or Castle Bernard
 Banagher’s Remarkable Associations
 Ballinahowen parish Catholic Year Book and Souvenir 1939
Famous Offaly People
 Dick McRedmond
 Death of John Barrett, academic and eccentric -- 1821
 Francis and Mark Foy
 Sir Thomas Naghten Fitzgerald (1838-1908)
 The Poet Edward Egan
 Fr. Patrick Dunne
 William Telford Webb 1842-1911
 Mary Ward 1827-1869
 Bartholomew Elliot George Warburton 1810-1852
 Thomas Tyquin: Tithe Martyr
 Anthony Trollope 1812-1882
 Rev. Francis Sadleir
 George Johnstone Stoney 1826-1911
 Kate Shelley - Railway Heroine
 Offaly's Scientific Tradition
 T.W. Rolleston
 Edward Redmond 1766-1840
 Matthew Pilkington
 Thomas O'Grady 1824-1890
 A.M. Munster
 William O'Connor Morris 1824-1904
 James Lynam Molloy
 Rev. Dr. Timothy Corcoran, S.J., D. Litt.
 James Meehan
 The Family of Charlton of Clonmacnois
 William J. Casey (1913-1987)
 Fr. Michael McAlroy 1821-1880
 William Bulfin - the Man from the Pampas
 Charlotte Bronte - and her association with Banagher
 The Contribution of Offaly Writers to Irish Literature
 Bishop William Quarter (1806-1848) - First Catholic Bishop of Chicago
 John Joly
 Charles Jervas
 Peter Morgan Jageurs
 The Literature of King's County
 Rex Ingram
 Hugh Mahon 1857-1931
 Hovenden Hely 1823-1872
 Admiral Sir Henry Darby
 Edward Hand 1742-1802
 Robert Theophilus Garden
 The Family of Charlton of Clonmacnois
 Index of Famous Offaly People
 The Williams Family and Tullamore Distillery
 Joseph Stirling Coyne and other Offaly Writers
 Patrick Bermingham 1828-1883
 Sir Herbert Samuel Holt
 Cornelius Heeney - an Offaly pioneer in New York
Irish Interest
 Ireland and the American Revolution
 John Wesley in the Midlands 1748-1789
 Index of Irish Interest
Neighbouring Counties
Offaly Diarists
 Asenath Nicholson - A femanist in Offaly in 1844 -1845
 Diary of Patrick Wrafter 1921-1925
Offaly Distilling
 The distilling industry in Offaly 1780-1954 (Part 1)
 The Williams Family and Tullamore Distillery
 Banagher Distillery
 The distilling industry in Offaly 1780-1954 (Part 4)
 The distilling industry in Offaly 1780-1954 (Part 3)
 The distilling industry in Offaly 1780-1954 (Part 2)
 Index of Offaly Distilling
 Tullamore and Kilbeggan Distilleries Stationary Steam Engines
 Birr Distillery
 Brusna Distillery, Kilbeggan
 Tullamore Distillery, Tullamore, King’s County
 The Story of "Tullamore Dew"
Offaly General
 Offaly Industry and Commerce - Perry's Mills, Belmont
 The Motor Car in the King's County
 Stories from the Midlands in the 18th Century
 Road, Rail and Water: Transport in Offaly
 Offaly Dispensary Registration Districts (Civil Records)
 Offaly Towns in 1824 - Pigot's Directory
 Offaly and the 1834 Poverty Enquiry
 The Townlands of Offaly
 Milestones in Offaly History: 1830-1980
 Erection of a Canal Hotel in Tullamore: Letter of Captain Evans, 1798
 Offaly in the 19th Century
 Naming Places
 Track by the Silver Water - a walk along the Grand Canal of Ireland
 Local government in Offaly - A Survey of Structures
 Families of King's County
 Wellesley, Whiteboys and the Brampton Men
 “The Crooked Road from Rahan to Chief Judge, U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals”
 West Offaly in the 1800's
 How Offaly County Council Began
 Victorian Architecture in Offaly
 Offaly, Sport in
 Churches and Houses of Architectural Interest in Offaly
 Census of 1881
 Boating on the Canal in the 1940's
Old Newspapers
Sale Publications
Tullamore History
 Tullamore Industry and Commerce - Tarleton's Maltings, Tullamore, in 1883
 Tullamore Industry and Commerce P & H Egan's
 The Battle of Tullamore
 The Tullamore Balloon Fire - First Air Disaster in History
 Arthur Young's Account of Tullamore in 1776
 The Grand Canal & Tullamore
 Thomas Davis Lectures - Second Series on Irish Towns
 The Famine in Tullamore
 The Tullamore Incident, 1806
 Tullamore Agricultural Show - a short history
 Tullamore & its Environs
 The King's County Infirmary, Tullamore
 When Tullamore had a Tobacco Industry
 Tullamore Workhouse in 1842
 Tullamore Gas Company
 Charleville Demense and the Burys, 1600-1900
 A Walk through Tullamore
 Churches in Tullamore in the 1900's
 The History of Tullamore Gaol
 A History of Sragh Castle
 Historical and Industrial Tullamore
 Gortnamona - the residence of Judge William O'Connor Morris
 Tanyard Lane: Its place in the economic history of Tullamore
 Education in Tullamore down the years
 Mary Mandeville, "A narrative of my husband's treatment at Tullamore, as stated by him to me on his return".
 Memoirs of Nuala Holland: Childhood memories of Tullamore
Visitors to Offaly
 Nassau William Senior, An Oxford Professor visits Birr - 1852, 1858 and 1862
War of Independence, Offaly
 The Civil War in Offaly
 The Pearsons of Coolacrease
Orphaned Articles
 Urban History Records as a Source for Irish Family History
 Some social customs in 1680
Photographic Archive
 Fetherstonhaugh Photographic Collection - Glenmore, Crossmolina
 Fetherstonhaugh Photographic Collection - Thumbnails
 Canal Photographs
 Archaeology Photographs
 Magan Collection
 Hanly Collection
 Fetherstonhaugh Photographic Collection
 Offaly Postcards
 Photograph Collections
Maps
 Map Collections
 Selection of Offaly Maps
Newsletters
2008 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newletter - April 2008
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newletter - March 2008
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2008
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newletter - January 2008
 Index of 2008 Newsletters
2007 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - November 2007
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - October 2007
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2007
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - January 2007
 Index of 2007 Newsletters
2006 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - December 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - October 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - August 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - July 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - June 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - May 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - April 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - March 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2006
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - January 2006
 Index of 2006 Newsletters
2005 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - December 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - November 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - October 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - September 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - July/August 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - May/June 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - April 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - March 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2005
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - January 2005
 Index of 2005 Newsletters
2004 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - December 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - November 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - October 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - September 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - July/August 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - May/June 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - April 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - March 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2004
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - January 2004
 Index of 2004 Newsletters
2003 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - December 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - November 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - October 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - September 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - August 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - July 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - June 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - May 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - April 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - March 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2003
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - January 2003
 Index of 2003 Newsletters
2002 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - December 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - November 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - October 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - August/September 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - July 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - May/June 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - April 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - March 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2002
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - January 2002
 Index of 2002 Newsletters
2001 Newsletters
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - December 2001
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - November 2001
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - October 2001
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - September 2001
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - August 2001
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - July 2001
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - February 2001
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Newsletter - January 2001
 Index of 2001 Newsletters
Books for Sale
Member's Area
 Offaly Historical & Archaeological Society Journal - Vol 2, 2004

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