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Letter from the Estates Commissioners' Offices of the Irish Land Commission dated 12 March 1913 relating to the holding of Dr Moorehead on the estate map. The letter notes that it had been found necessary to amend the area of the holding.

Large hand drawn map (1900) of the townland of Clonagh East. Coloured lines on the map indicate property owned by Lady Emily Howard-Bury, property owned by Boylan, and an outline of a roadway involved in a right of way dispute. Map measures 107x65cm.

4 OS maps of the estate of Lady Emily Howard-Bury prepared by the Irish Land Commission.

Cash book for 4th Earl of Charleville, Charles William Francis Bury from 1872 to his death in 1874, the 5th Earl of Charleville, Alfred Bury from 1874 to his death in 1875 and Lady Emily Howard-Bury to the year 1878.

9 Land Commission Schedule of Tenancies for the estate of Lady Emily Howard Bury for 1920-1923. Ordered by number and records tenants name, postal address, townland, nature of tenure, annual rent, gale days, half-yearly rents due, payments made by tenant, balance due, compounded arrears of rent and date of receipt.

Tenement valuation of Charleville estates ordered by townland and OS map coordinate. Records reference to map, occupier, immediate lessors, description of tenement, area, land, buildings, half rents, total and observations. Indexed alphabetically by townlands and streets from Cloncollog to Water Lane at the front of volume.

Daily rent book for Lady Emily Howard-Bury's Estate from October 1884 - December 1885. Arranged by date of payment and recording townland, tenant's name, observations, arrears and gale day payments.

Poem copied from English Almanac, 1885. Written on headed notepaper from Charleville Forest, Tullamore.

'The snowdrop in purest white array/first rears her head on Candlemas Day....'

Legal agreement between Lady Emily Howard-Bury and Templin Morris Powers-Potts in relation to the latter's inherited portion of a piece of land in Peutelstein otherwise known as Castello di Botestagno in Ampezzo, Northern Italy.

Ms. letter from Lady Emily Howard-Bury, Charleville Forest, Tullamore to Mr. Browne, confirming his salary to be at £250 per annum and 2% yearly on the rents collected. She also confirms that the house, garden and two fields at Brookville are for his use, rent free, with any internal repairs to be undertaken by Browne, and Lady Emily attending to any external repairs.

Newspaper cutting from The King’s County Chronicle concerning the death of Miss Marjorie Howard-Bury following a brief illness, which sad event “brought profound grief over and far outside the [Charleville] estate”. Miss Bury was buried in the family vault under the chancel of St. Catherine’s, and it was remarked that “notwithstanding the very severe character of the weather the general procession was of remarkable dimensions”.

Newspaper cuttings relating to the protests of the tenantry of Lady Emily Howard Bury, following her serving writs on them. The tenants on the estate at Croghan sought an abatement in their rents, “they having solicited [for same] in the humblest manner”. The Rhode and Croghan branch of the Land League now pledge to fight to the end “thereby showing Lady E. Bury, her agent and the country, what [they] think of an act which [they] have no hesitation in denouncing as unwarranted and unjust”.
Includes an observation that previous to the Land League agitation, the tenants were quite satisfied with their rents “and regarded the Bury family as model landlords”. Includes death of Margaret Tracey, a tenant on the Croghan estate, who had already been issued with a decree against her concerning shop provisions, and who dropped dead when rushing out to intercept a sheriff, whom she mistakenly thought was about to seize her cattle.