Grant of Land by Elizabeth I to Oliver Grace (Graces St, Nenagh)  - 20/07/1562. The grant comprises Tyone Priory, Mill and Demesne part of which is Nenagh, Ballymackey & Templederry. Other townlands immediately spotted are Cloghprior and Dunkerrin (virtualtreasury.ie)

Transfer of the Tyone monastery lands to Robert Boyle 01/04/1662 (Records of the Rolls, Vol VIII, virtualtreasury.ie)

Tyone (Tione) from the Down Survey. This map dates from 1787 based on the 1665 original (virtualtreasury.ie)

Tyone Priory or the Priory of St John the Hospitaller (Teacheon), is situated on a small hillock and overlooks Abhainn Cathbad or as it's known these days....Nenagh River. It was founded by Theobald Walter and dates from 1200. The Priory was a foundation of Augustinian Hospitallers or Fratres Cruciferi. it held 13 beds for the ill and infirm. Each patient was allotted a daily allowance of a good loaf, a plentiful bowl of ale from the cellar and a dish of meat from the kitchen.

Partial walls of the Church, constructed from rubble infill still remain and stand within the walls of the surrounding graveyard. The Priory was burned and 5 canons were murdered by Donald O'Kennedy in 1432. The Priory, Hospital and Mill were closed in 1552 and the lands of over 700 acres were confiscated and awarded to Oliver Grace for a yearly rent of  £38 15s & 10d. With this closure and suppression of the Priory as indeed with any religious house, the safety net which provided alms and care for the sick and poor of the parish was removed thus casting them to their own devices. (see copy of patent above)

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One of the schoolboy legends was the inevitable tunnel joining both Tyone Priory and the Franciscan Friary and of course somebody always knew someone who had been in it. Too much Enid Blyton and Dick Barton when I was growing up

Tyone Priory 10/07/1969

Knights Crescent, built for the senior management staff of Mogul, whose President and Director happened to be D.W. Knight

Ballygraigue Estate - The Mineworkers purpose built paradise. Much later the flat roofs would be improved and standard peaked roofing applied

report to the Mogul Shareholders

The Workhouse

The successor to the Workhouse - Nenagh General Hospital - a gem of 1930's architecture

The twin 1935 Modernist gatehouses of Nenagh Hospital designed by Vincent Kelly which once housed families

Various images of Nenagh Hospital

The Aluminium factory

A range of Pots and Pans manufactured by Castle Brand Aluminium with the various Logo-type interpretations of the Corporate I.D.

The Castle Brand personnel that kept the factory going. The wailing sound of the siren marking the beginning or end of a shift and the mad dash of bicycles up or down Barrack St.