Squat folio volume, titled ‘Ledger, No. 10’ [no trace of 1-9], recording estate, farm, demesne, forestry, garden, etc, receipts and out-goings on a day-by-day basis, [and therefore in the nature of a day book rather than a ledger].
Ledger for the home farms at Dovegrove, Killeen and Newtown.
Ledger: ‘Earl of Rosse – personal account and Womersley Park’.
Balances on ledger accounts on taking over from Reginald Digby by Lewis Goodbody.
Accounts kept by Goodbody Kennedy Sols, detailing timber sales, rentals, sundries and lodgements.
Photocopied lecture notes (with duplicates) prepared by Fr Hurley for courses he delivered in Irish history and archaeology, with an emphasis on Offaly, to Bórd na Móna and University College Dublin (extra-mural studies).
Box of leases of Clonoghill, barony of Ballybritt, on the outskirts of Birr, and adjoining Newbridge, to which some of the leases refer [see Q/84]. Also mentioned are the 2 substantial houses situated in the townland of Clonoghill,
Elmgrove and Syngefield. A number of papers, ending in 1946, relate to the former property. Because of Clonoghill’s proximity to Birr, an unusually high proportion of the leases also include holdings in the town. One interesting component of the box is the probate of a local land surveyor, Maurice Downer, 1786, whose estate included part of the lands of Clonoghill; this will is of interest as giving some indication of the degree of affluence enjoyed by a member of his profession. The box also includes papers relating to the sale of a fee farm grant of Elmgrove Bridge to Offaly County Council in 1989.
Wexford. Estate leases granted by the Hon. Laurence Parsons, third son of the 2nd Earl, on whom the Wexford estate was settled [see 0/37].
Wexford estate leases granted by Sir Laurence Parsons, 5th Bt, 2nd Earl of Rosse. [In date order.]
Parsons, Laurence, 2nd Earl of Rosse