The library holds a vast collection of Poor Law Union Minute Books, Rate Books and Workhouse Registers encompassing nearly the entire county.
They also give an account of the running of the workhouses and the various orders for food, medicine and other items such as coffins. There are over 90 Minute Books in the archives at Tipperary Studies, which cover the period pre-famine and the famine years up to 1852.Over 35,000 pages have so far been scanned.
Mr Bracken said that names of young girls orphaned in the workhouses and sent to Australian colonies under the Earl Grey scheme also appear in the books.
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