AGI member Paul MacCotter has just published a paper titled ‘The M7 motorway historical landscape: studies in the history of Ormond’ in the 2018 recent edition of  the Tipperary Historical Journal. The paper will be of interest to those interested in the history of the monastery of Toomyvarra, the town of Nenagh and the surnames O’Meara, O’Tierney, Butler, O’Kennedy and Mackey.