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- 1876 (Creation)
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1 bound volume
51 digital images
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Annual report, accounts and rental for year ending June 1876, containing 'an entirely satisfactory' financial report with an absence of any outstanding arrears. Notes however that expenditure was high as the glebe lands of Killeigh were purchased from the Church Temporalities Commission for £950, and major drainage and reclamation works were completed at Cappyroe, Cappancur, Roskeen, Geashill glebe lands, Clonmore, and Killarles.
Forestry works included a new plantation at Aghanrush, and the clearance of twenty acres of the River Wood at Clonad of all decaying birch and timber, the construction of new drainage works therein and the replantation of the wood. Digby reports the same plan is in place for the wood at Derrygolan. Construction works included a new cattle shed for Mr Tottenham at Springfield; new offices for Mr Delamere in the Meelaghans; new stores for T. Fegan in Geashill Village due to increased trade; new forge in Killeigh and new offices for J. Buckley in Geashill Village and for Mary Hones in Cappancur, along with descriptions of other repairs and alterations.
Overall he reports the condition of the estate as 'prosperous' but warns of mischievous attempts 'to inspire the Irish tenantry with distrust of their landlords. '
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Copyright of digital images administered by Offaly County Council Heritage Office. No reproduction online, in print or broadcast without express permission of copyright holder. Original volumes in ownership of Lord Henry Noel Kenelm Digby, 13th Baron Digby.
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- Offaly (King's) » Geashill (Bar.) » Killeigh
- Offaly (King's) » Geashill (Bar.) » Cappyroe
- Offaly (King's) » Geashill (Bar.) » Cappancur
- Laois (Queen's) » Roskeen
- Offaly (King's) » Geashill (Bar.) » Clonmore
- Offaly (King's) » Geashill (Bar.) » Killarles
- Offaly (King's) » Geashill (Bar.) » Aghanrush
- Offaly (King's) » Geashill (Bar.) » Geashill
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- Church Temporalities Commission (Subject)