Draft index to Birr town leases, prepared in 2005 by Margaret Hogan. Properties are arranged by street and ordered chronologically within each street. The index (copies of which are included on a CD and diskette) also
gives the name, occupation, and other particulars about the lessees.

Drawing design for the lowering of Oxmanstown Bridge, drawn by John Hill, Tullamore.

Typescript letter from Local Government Board of R. H. Moore member of Birr No. 1 Rural District Council stating that a Rural District Council is a local authority under The Electric Lighting Acts and that it is not necessary for them to obtain urban powers for the electric lighting of any part of their district.

Box containing annual sets of estate and farm accounts, audited by Stokes Bros. & Pirn of Dublin [see also Q/393].

Box containing annual sets of estate and farm accounts, audited by Stokes Bros. & Pirn of Dublin [see also Q/393].

Small folio volume recording turf-cuttings on the bogs of the Rosse estate.

‘Forestry account cash ledger’, 1909-39, used simultaneously as a Birr Manor Sawmills account book, 1910-45.

‘Forestry account timber sales ledger.’

Six garden books kept by the head gardener, Michael Hogan.

Six garden books kept by the head gardener, Michael Hogan.