Envelope of leases of premises in Mount Sally. [In date order.]

Deeds, maps and correspondence relating to the townland of Millbrook near Killeigh, Parish of Ballykean:
(spellings: Monydwin, Moniedwin, Moneidwin, Moneidivin)
Map, surveyed 1756 by John Mooney;
Lease, John Digby Esq. to The Reverend Joseph Graves, 1771;
Lease, John Digby Esq. to Randall Cooke Esq., 1771;
Lease, John Digby Esq. to Randall Cooke Esq.,1783;
Lease, Randall Cooke Esq. to Lancelot Sandes Esq., 1789;
Articles of agreement for a lease, Reverend Dean William Digby to Lancelot Sandes Esq., 1792;
Map of Millbrook Domain the seat of Lancelot Sandes Esq., 1792 by Michael Cuddehy;
Lease, Reverend William Digby to Reverend Francis Sadleir [Sadleir], 1842. Incl. a map of Millview and Abbeylands, 1841;
Lease ('of the Abbeyland'), Thomas Sadlier Esq. to Reverend James Kinsella, 1845;
Assignment, Reverend William Digby Sadlier, , Thomas Sadlier Esq. and Randal Caesar Sadlier Esq. with Reverend James Kinsella, 1853;
Conveyance, The Landed Estates Court to The Right Honourable Edward St Vincent Digby Baron Digby, 1860;
Assignment, Reverend Augustine Kinsella to Michael Kinsella, 1875;
Assignment, Michael Kinsella to Edward Walsh (with copy in tissue paper), 1895;
Mortgage Edward Walsh to Ulster Bank Ltd., 1900;
Caretaker agreement to Michael Flanagan, 1901;
Abstract of title of Edward Walshe, 1908;
Irish Land Commission, agreement for sale (Estate of Lord Digby, tenant Edward Walsh) x2, 1908;
Agreement Reverend I. J. Seale with Edward Walsh, 1915;
Reconveyance of Mortgage, Ulster Bank Ltd. to Edward Walsh, 1919;
Conditions of sale, Edward Walsh, incl. property in Killurin, 1919;
Requisitions on title, Edward Walsh to Michael Conroy, 1919 (damaged with mould, in tissue paper);
Correspondence under Land Law Acts and Irish Land Commission and hand searches regarding sale Edward Walsh to James Conroy, 1919.

Envelope of leases of Newtown, barony of Ballybritt, the lease of 1757 (which is long and complicated, and which makes reference to the debts of Sir William Parsons, 4th Bt) also comprising parts of Derrinlough and Dovegrove [see Q/37 and 39. In date order.]

Half-box of leases of premises in Cumberland/Duke Street and Square. This section also includes an original fee farm grant of the premises, offered to Mrs E.M. Quigley.

Box of leases of Crinkle, alias Crinkhill, barony of Ballybritt, on the outskirts of Birr, and many of them therefore including holdings in the town. The Crinkle leases also contain an above-average number of integral maps, some of
them rather handsome. Included under Crinkle are the sub-denominations of Whiteford and Birr View, the latter of which is described in a lease of 1797 as ‘the spot of ground whereon the viewing-house for the quality is placed to see the races of Birr’. Crinkle was also the site of the Birr Military Barracks, and a lease of 1831 is from the 2nd Earl of Rosse to the Ordnance Department. A number of the leases are dated 1763 (the earliest date in the box), which would suggest that a substantial middleman’s lease, perhaps of the whole townland, fell in in that year. The box also includes papers relating to the sale of a fee farm grant of the Military Road (purchased by Michael O’Dwyer) and to the sale of the Old Schoolhouse (purchased by John and Sophia Hogan).

Leases of premises in Love Lane

Miscellaneous leases, which seem to have it in common that they are of premises and fields near the Birr Castle demesne. [In date order.]

Half-box of leases of ‘the Fair Green’, ‘the Factory Field’ and other premises and parks described as being bounded on one side by ‘the new road from Parsonstown to Frankford’.

Two envelopes of leases of Cappaneale, including Cows Bawn, barony of Ballybritt, on the outskirts of Birr. [In date order.] The sub-section also includes papers relating to the sale of properties in Cappaneale to Tony Kelly and various other purchasers.

Envelope of leases of Derrymullen and Carrigeen, alias Corrageen, barony of Eglish. [In date order.]