Letter from Thomas Molloy, Land Agent, Bellair, to Thomas Greene, 24 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin City regarding payment to Larry Bewley of Ballinagore of £300 by William Inchlock, and general updates on the Bellair estate.
Handwritten notes, invoices and correspondence relating to renovations carried out to Bellair House in 1838.
Includes detailed report prepared by Michael Murray, builder, for Thomas Mulock of specifications of work proposed to be done for erecting a private chapel at Bellair.
Artificial collection of receipts and invoices associated with the stables, garden and gate lodge of Bellair House.
Includes:
List of trees and shrubs supplied by William Sheppard, Landscape Gardener, Churchtown, Dublin;
Invoice from Alex Dickson & Sons Ltd, Seedsmen, Nurserymen & Florists, Dublin;
Invoice from James Duffy, Builder and Contractor, Moate for repairs and painting to Bellair House;
Invoice from W J Mash, Shannon View Nursery, Glasson, Athlone.
Artificially collected files of correspondence and papers relating to the Bellair Estate, under the management of land agent, Ernest H Browne. Mostly arranged around specific tenant or townland.
Handwritten schedules of documents associated with the townlands of Bellair, Skekanagher, Carraghdown, Clonshanny, Moate, Killeenboylegan and Curries in the Bellair Estate, with a surveyed measurements of Bellair, Skehana and Curraghdown.
Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating to Ernest H Browne's management of the Bellair Estate. Matters referred to include: annual updates on rental and accounts; grazing agreements; delayed payments of rents by tenants; request by Mulock that the yearly rental and account be issued bi-annually.
Tenants referenced include: W C Clibborn; Charles G Adamson; John Joyce; Mrs Finnamore; John Deehan.
Letter from Browne to Mulock: "You ask me if I find same difficulty on other estate, Yes, I most certainly do. You may remember the old saying 'The poor are ever with us'. I regret to state that the bad paying tenant is also always with the unfortunate Landlord... My experience is that once a tenant from whatever cause it may be gets hard up, he is always pulling the Devil by the tail and in spite of good times he never able to satisfy all his Creditors. I only wish I had every estate as well paid as your estate is". (11 January 1918).
Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating to Ernest H Browne's management of the Bellair Estate. Matters referred to include: the transfer of head rent of lands in Skehanagh from the late, John Joyce to JM Colahan; proposal of 25 years purchase to Colahan.
Letter from JM Colahan to Mulock: "Please excuse delay in replying to yours of the 24th inst. I have been in communication with my cousin, Mrs Doyle, who is joint owner with me of the small profit rent of Skehanagh, she would not agree to purchase the head rent" (October 1916).
Original incoming and copy outgoing letters relating to Ernest H Browne's management of the Bellair Estate. Matters referred to include: schedule of the transfer of head rent of lands in Bellair from the original lessee, Thomas Lowe, to his descendants; arrangements between W B Homan Mulock and Patrick Keena for a 16 year purchase of the lands; schedule of deeds and documents received by W B Homan Mulock from A & L Goodbody, solicitors.
Includes letter from A & L Goodbody to W B Homan Mulock, following the destruction of Dublin's Custom House, "Owing to all their records having been destroyed, the Inland Revenue Officials have asked us to lodge with them for noting the copies of the wills of your Father and Grand-uncle and we should be glad if you would let us have these copies at your early convenience" (14 June 1921).
Envelope of leases of the tuck mill of Birr and premises nearby.
Box of conacre, grazing, weekly, monthly, yearly or caretaker proposals/agreements.