The Tipperary Memorials Project
A non-profit survey recording the headstone inscriptions of County Tipperary — photographed, faithfully transcribed and published free online, before the stones weather away.
Alongside My Ancestors, Gerard Mulligan leads the Tipperary Memorials Project — a volunteer effort to preserve the inscriptions carved into the county’s graveyards. Every year, weather and lichen render more of them unreadable, and with each stone that fades a family’s record is lost for good.
The project walks the graveyards of Tipperary, photographs the memorials and transcribes them line by line, then publishes every record free online so that anyone — anywhere in the world — can find their people.
“Keeping the names that time would erase.”
Recorded so far
- Inscriptions transcribed
- 2,785
- People remembered
- 7,341
- Graveyards listed
- 170
- Years of records
- 1667–2026
Inscriptions transcribed
People remembered
Graveyards listed
Years of records
How the records are made
Photograph
Every legible memorial in a graveyard is photographed in situ, before weather and time take the stone.
Transcribe
Inscriptions are transcribed line by line and faithfully — recording what is there, and marking plainly in brackets what can no longer be read.
Publish
Every record is published free online in a searchable name database that families and researchers can use at no cost.
Across the county
The survey reaches across all five of Tipperary’s historic districts, beginning in and around Nenagh and working outward, graveyard by graveyard.
- Nenagh
- Thurles
- Tipperary · Cahir · Cashel
- Clonmel
- Carrick-on-Suir
Search the memorials of Tipperary
The full name database is free to search. Look for a surname, a graveyard or a townland, and read the inscriptions exactly as they were carved.
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