Three large folio leasebooks [see also Q/249-50], the first started c.1820 but containing details of leases back to c.1710 and continued up to c.1850; the second and third started c.1850, containing details back to c.1775 and continued almost up to the present day. The second and third are still in the Estate Office, so only the first has been examined. It contains few entries later than 1840, but this possibly reflects the fact that few leases were granted after the 1830s, rather than that the book ceased to be maintained. It is arranged in 2 sequences: first, King’s County property; second ‘the Killeen estate’ [i.e. Tipperary property, principally of Dunalley provenance]. The leases are arranged alphabetically according to the initial letter of each tenant’s name, although within each letter of the alphabet no order is observed. [The book is thus a ready-made finding aid for genealogical inquiries, which are likely to be strong on surname but weak on location. With its aid, it is probable that further refining could be made of the arrangement of the individual King’s County leases which follows, as the leasebook sometimes (particularly in the case of renewals) contains details of location which the individual lease or renewal does not. Nevertheless, this is a slow business, and time did not permit much research along these lines. Q/16/1 has been copied by PRONI – see MIC.564.]Smaller folio leasebook recording, c.1865, details of leases back to c.1705 on the estate of the Hon. Laurence Parsons in King’s County and Cos Tipperary and Wexford [see 0/37 and Q/6. Q/16/4 is also on MIC.564].

Lease-book titled ‘R[osse] agreements, No. 1’, recording details of such lettings as the above.

3 copies of renewal of lease dated 6 January 1790 concerning the lands of Brookville [Brookfield] containing 175 acres between Charles William Bury and Reverend William Peter Turpin.

Lease of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen [Toberleheen] from Edward Earl Digby to Mary Byrne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £5-16-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Mr Berry, Stephen Byrne, Roger Gorman, Connor Byrne and Roger Gorman.
Also 'A map of part of the lands of Ballydownan and Killelary in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1831', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Joseph Cleary, The Reverend I. D. Wingfield and Geo. Byrne.

Lease of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen from Edward Earl Digby to Joseph Byrne and Rose Dunne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £6-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Joseph Byrne, and Thomas Baynham.

Lease of part of the land of Tubberlaheen [Toberleheen] from Edward Earl Digby to Cornelius Byrne for three lives or 31 years at a yearly rent of £31-9-3.

Lease of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen [Toberleheen] from Edward Earl Digby to Connor Byrne for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £6-4-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Mary Byrne, Roger Gormon and Mr. Berry.

Lease of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen [Toberleheen] from Edward Earl Digby to Charles Gallagher for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £17-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Stephen Byrne.

Lease of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen [Toberleheen] from Edward Earl Digby to Bernard Owen and George Morrin for one life, or twenty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £16-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Tubberlaheen in the Barony of Geashill and King's County. Part of the Estate of the Right Honourable Earl Digby. Surveyed by John Molloy 1818', hand coloured, scale 20 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to widow Galagher, Patt Deeran, Richard S. Baynham and Thomas Baynham.

Lease of part of the lands of Raheenduff from Edward Earl Digby to John M. Tarleton for three lives from 1797, at the yearly rate of £61-4-3.
Including 'A map of part Raheenduff in the Barony of Geashill and King's County containing 104.0.33 plantation measure. Part of the Estate of The Right Honourable Earl of Digby in tenure of John Weldon Tarleton Esq. in 1793 by Michael Cuddehy', hand coloured, scale of 20 Perches in one Inch