Killeigh
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Annual report for year ending June 1863 containing details of rental and general management of the estate. Includes a general report describing the failure of the 1862 harvest and the subsequent loss of rental income, including the complete abandonment of arrears in many cases. Regrets that funds were not sufficient to entice tenants to emigrate as many small and middle farmers were 'compelled to stay half starving on their land, unable to pay rent or crop the ground, or to emigrate to another land, and barely able to support life on the miserable produce of the soil'.
Also discusses the completion of drainage works at Meelaghans, now let to Mr Goodbody of Tullamore, and at Ballyknockan, now let to Mr. Ridgeway. Referring to building works, the main project was the building of the new school house at Geashill. Other new buildings include the Castle offices to replace those previously burnt. Reports on the new forester, Daniel Dewer, who has had success in making the woods and plantations profitable, in particular at Clonad.
Annual report, rental and accounts for year ending June 1885, showing a gross reduction in rents by £95.16.0 and with arrears same as in 1884. Describes the year as 'singularly uneventful' and notes that the only work undertaken was a large area of ground replanted in Scrubb Wood, River Wood and Clonad.
Lease of part of the lands of Killeigh from Edward Earl Digby to Richard Hargrave for three lives, or thirty-one years from 25 March 1818, at the yearly rate of £190-0-0.
Including 'A map of part of the lands of Killeigh 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 Sandys, John Weldon Tarleton and John Conroy.
Lease of part of the lands of Pigeon House [Pigeonhouse] from Edward Earl Digby to (Kitty) Catherine Flanagan 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 Pigeon House 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 Flanagan, John Flanagan and Barry Tarleton.
Also 'A map of part of the lands of Killeigh and of the Pigeon House 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 10 Perches to an Inch, with bordering land leased to Richard Hargrove, Mrs Malony, Harry Skerrit, Mr Ryan, Patrick Kenny, Mr Lorant, John W. Tarleton and Barry Tarleton, note 'This map was made before the present lease and that in the reason that Ballinvally and Scrubb Wood, [...] demand by this lease, are not [...] on this map.'