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File relating to an attempt to amalgamate Borrisnafarney parish with Aghnameadle parish in 1912. Contained within the file are five letters and copies of the letters from Benjamin Bloomfield Trench to the secretary of the Representative Church Body, Anthony Maude, 52 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. The file also contains numerous documents which raise objections to the union of the parishes, such as two copies of a memo listing reasons why Borrisnafarney refuses to support the union and a memo which states that the main objection to union was the financial difficulty that may result from it. Pamphlet from 'The annual meeting of the Diocesan Synod Killaloe and Kilfenora. Also includes Borrisnafarney parish and Dunkerrin Parish Minutes of Borrisnafarney select vestry meeting 28 July 1915.

Envelope of leases of Newtown, barony of Ballybritt, the lease of 1757 (which is long and complicated, and which makes reference to the debts of Sir William Parsons, 4th Bt) also comprising parts of Derrinlough and Dovegrove [see Q/37 and 39. In date order.]

Box of conacre, grazing, weekly, monthly, yearly or caretaker proposals/agreements.

Box of conacre, grazing, weekly, monthly, yearly or caretaker proposals/agreements.

Three letters from Isabel Grubb at Seskin, Carrick-on-Suir, County Tipperary, to Doctor Francis William Lamb, regarding the history of the Fuller family.

Box of conacre, grazing, weekly, monthly, yearly or caretaker proposals/agreements.

Box of conacre, grazing, weekly, monthly, yearly or caretaker proposals/agreements.

Land Court case papers and Irish Land Commission sale papers, including lists of tenants, of court cases to be heard,
some correspondence [but see Q/388], a small quarto volume [of c.1900] recording valuations of holdings, either for land purchase purposes or in connection with appeals against judicial rents, etc, etc, all in connection with the Rosse estate in King’s County and Co. Tipperary.

Five envelopes containing miscellaneous estate accounts and financial and estate correspondence of the Birr Estate Office, much of it about arterial drainage (including printed matter back to 1869), one account of 1874 mentioning the cost of labour on the mounting for the three-foot telescope, and other long runs of accounts relating to the Dovegrove, Killeen and Newtown farms and stock, and to the manor saw mill, 1886-1912. [Not in chronological order.]

Correspondence and maps concerning Lisheen military rifle range, beside the 4th Earl’s property at Clonoghill, on the outskirts of Birr.