Envelope of leases of premises in Connaught Street. [In date order.] The envelope also includes papers relating to the sale of the pub in Connaught Street to Thomas and Ann Rohan.

Half-box of leases of premises in or near Main Street, also called ‘the street of Birr’ or ‘the town street’. This sub-section also includes papers relating to the sale of fee farm grants of Bowes’ Shop (purchased by Mary McLoughlin)
and Griffin’s Bakery (purchased by John and Arthur Joyce), both on Main Street.

Box of leases of premises in Castle Street, including a lease and counterpart lease of ‘Crotty’s Church’, 1837 [see E/11], and papers relating to the sale of a Castle Street fee farm grant to the personal representatives of Claude Corcoran. The box also includes a large folder of correspondence about the Birr Trustee Company’s proposed purchase of Spinner’s
Bistro in Castle Street, which was eventually bought by another party.

Envelope of leases of premises which are all described as being on the road to Burkeshill or as adjoining Burkeshill, and have no other intelligible indication of location. [In date order.]

Half-box of leases of ‘the Fair Green’, ‘the Factory Field’ and other premises and parks described as being bounded on one side by ‘the new road from Parsonstown to Frankford’.

Estate papers comprising of estate accounts, tenancy agreements, farms accounts, land titles and correspondence.

Envelope of leases of Ballindown, barony of Eglish. [In date order.] The envelope also includes two documents relating to the transfer of parts of Ballindown from the Birr Estates Company to Erin Peat Products Ltd. [For this and other transactions relating to bogs on the estate, see also Q/326A.]

Leases of Ballykealy (and Ardgoga), barony of Eglish. [For further leases of Ardgoga, either on its own or in conjunction with other townlands, see Q/25. In date order.]

Envelope of leases of Clonbrone, barony of Ballybritt. [In date order.]

Envelope of leases of Clondalla, alias Clondallow, alias Clondallagh, barony of Eglish, adjoining Boolanarrig. [In date order.] The leases, up to and including 1825, are from members of the Berry family of Dovegrove, an adjoining townland; Clondalla, Dovegrove and Clonahane were held by them under a perpetuity from the Viscounts Loftus/ Marquesses of Drogheda. In or about the 1830s, the 2nd Earl of Rosse must have acquired the Berry interest, which was tantamount to outright ownership, in these townlands, subject
to continued Berry occupation of and residence in part of Dovegrove. These townlands were then subsequently settled on the 2nd Earl’s third son, the Hon. Laurence Parsons, who is a party to the leases of 1860, 1865 and 1872 in this sub-section.] The sub-section also includes papers relating to the sale of Clondallow to Daniel J. Earley, and deeds and documents relating to the (re )purchase of ‘Finnegan’s field’ in 1997.