Lease between Charles Moore and James Sikes for the mill of Croughon [Croghan] with the house and 10 acres, as well as turf bank in the bog of Croughon for three lives and yearly Rent £10 5s 6d.

Newspaper cuttings relating to the protests of the tenantry of Lady Emily Howard Bury, following her serving writs on them. The tenants on the estate at Croghan sought an abatement in their rents, “they having solicited [for same] in the humblest manner”. The Rhode and Croghan branch of the Land League now pledge to fight to the end “thereby showing Lady E. Bury, her agent and the country, what [they] think of an act which [they] have no hesitation in denouncing as unwarranted and unjust”.
Includes an observation that previous to the Land League agitation, the tenants were quite satisfied with their rents “and regarded the Bury family as model landlords”. Includes death of Margaret Tracey, a tenant on the Croghan estate, who had already been issued with a decree against her concerning shop provisions, and who dropped dead when rushing out to intercept a sheriff, whom she mistakenly thought was about to seize her cattle.

Farm account books and invoices relating to Kelly Farm, Bunsallagh, Croghan.

Lease between Charles Moore and John Dames for 'part of the lands of Croughon [Croghan] commonly called the Big Hill comprised of 90 acres and bogg' for three lives paying yearly rent of £51 15s.

Lease by Charles William Bury to Thorogood North for farm containing 103 acres 3 roods and 30 perches at Croghan and a turf bank on the bog of Togher for three lives and survivors paying yearly rent of £177 2s 7d. Includes hand drawn map of the Togher farm of Croghan.

Rental proposal by Lady Emily Bury to Alexander Carlisle for lands at Croghan for the term of 6 months at the rent of £1 18s.

Rental proposal by Lady Emily Bury to Thomas McCabe for lands at Croghan containing 1 acre 15 perches.

Correspondence (1963-70), mainly between Swayne and W. H. Milner, Portarlington, relating to a film made by Fr. Kennedy in 1921 ostensibly on the turf-cutting industry in the area, but also features the exhumation of skulls of the ‘Ballynowlart Martyrs’ who were purportedly burned alive in Ballynowlart church by English forces in the 1600s. Correspondence culminates in the deposit of the film in the National Library of Ireland.

Offaly Sinn Féin material: original resolution from North and South Offaly Executive Sinn Féin signed by Comd. Ua Duinn relating to its support of the Treaty (29 December 1921) and calling on Offaly’s representative Dr McCartan to vote for ratification, and a pamphlet entitled 'Terms of Reference 23 May 1922 Adjourned Árd-Fheis of Sinn Féin'.

Leaflets and other printed material relating to Croghan Feis organised by Offaly Vocational Education Committee (1949).
Manuscripts notes on placenames and history of Killeigh Parish and Philipstown (Daingean).

Publications: Programme for Walsh Island Second National Turf-cutting competition (1935); Knockbeg Centenary Year Book (1948); and Suncroft, a Parish Magazine (1970).

Lease between Charles Moore and Richard Mason of Knock for the Mansion House of Croughon with outhouses, orchards, gardens, and the domain lands of Croghan containing in the whole 300 acres and turf bank in Croghan and for three lives for the sum of £160, and £168 during the lives of Richard Mason Junior and Clark. Note on lease that it was surrendered March 1739.