Box containing bundles of weekly returns of income and expenditure (mainly on labour) for Birr Castle, gardens, pleasure grounds, forestry, farm, etc, [sampled from a vast quantity of similar material in order to show how the accounting system then in operation worked.]

Small bound notebook, ruled for tracking wages of casual labourers. Lists names of workmen, the number of days per week (out of six days) worked, rate of wages and amount earned. Also includes notes on pay increases or bonuses earned. Although there is no mention of the type of work, all employees are male.

Research on the Town Park House - Birr Castle, Co. Offaly (Parish of Birr, Barony of Ballybritt). County Inventory Registration: 967.
Contains field sheet with a sketch of site plan (after Birr Town Council Development Plan 1990), a written report over two pages and 117 photographs.

Postcard of Birr Castle viewed from the river, purchased from Richard J Sheppard, Bookseller and Stationer, Birr, County Offaly.